Middletown transcript., 1910-08-20

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every misstep. This is the last
she gasped. I'm telIin ye wanst
fer all, ma'am, the baste goes or
/ do! And a moment later the
baste himself appeared-a small,
unprepossessing, Witty. yellow
ferret, wrapped in the arms OF
Jimpsey Englehart, the son OF
the house.
Mrs. Englehart stood uncer'
tainly between them. Well, Katy,
I'm sure / haven't any fondness
for him myself. He should have
been sent back at once.
Yes, said Jimpsey, fairly in
tears, yes, after he's gone and
done his duty and killed all the
rats-and he killed them just in
lunches, too!-then nobody has
any sympathy for him any more!
Sympathy! Katy choked at it.
The blood suckin' little pink eyes!
If I could fetch him only wan clip
with the furnace shaker!
You do now! Mother, you bet.
ter tell her now! For if ever she
does
By this time Mrs. Englehart
could once more hold the scales
of justice evenly. Jimpsey, she
said, we're not denying how val
uable he's been. When / think
of the way we were pestered with
rats hardly two weeks ago
But you ought to think of the
people who are pestered with
them still, and pass him on to
them. The Lisgars and Apple
tons have just as many as we
had.
Well, why can't they go and
buy ferrets of their own, then?
But / guess they'll never get any
like Togo!
Then you must keep him in the
stable. Why must he be forever
going back to the cellar?
Why, because that's where he
had the most fun, Of course! I
keep him in his box, too, only he
Chews his way ont again:
Togo seemed to blink his little
albino eyes in pleasant corrobo-
ration. Katy could hardly resist
making a pass at him.
Jimpsey retreated vengefully
toward the outer door. And now,
too, when he even knows my
whistle! ! can send him into that
hole away up in front of the coal
bin, and then whistle through my
fingers into the hole away back
near where we keep the potatoes
and he comes up just as if it was
only the other side of the parti-
tion. He'll do it every time |
give him a meat scrap. l guess
there aren't many ferrets trained
like that.
Again Mrs. Englehart gave up.
Yet it was with a very uneasy |
mind that she gave up. Only
too clearly did she feel that if |
there was another meeting be-
tween Katy and Togo in the
shadowy glimpses Of the coal and |
vegetable bins, there would no
longer be any chance to choose
between them. And Katy was
the one really good cook she had |
ever had. She decided at last
that it was something that Mr..
Englehart must settle, although
In the main it was against her
principles to trouble him with
such domestic problems.
That day Mr.. Englehart re-
burned from the new college
buildings with worry on his face.
Belle, he said, I'm about ready
% quit.
Why, dear, she asked, what is
It now2
Oh, Orv again. A young arch
.tect like that-with the brains
'or it, too-gets job that gives
aim his chance to make name
the whole State. He's
lplifted that he marries on it.
And then he lets q fat headed
contractor make Q fool Of himself
md him about once a week.
When that business Of the chin.
aey supports got out, the Journal
rave him enough bad advertising
o kill two ordinary regulations.
And now-he spread out his
lands on the table.
Dear, dear! The thing went at
,nce 70 Mrs. Englebart's heart
d 9 way that it could not do to
ler husbands. For it was her
sister Anna that the clever young
1r. Orville Hayiland had mar
led. And, oh, the night that
Journal article was Published |
,ould see them both grow older
Fhile they were reading it. What