The Washington herald., 1910-05-22
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That SWhat theESparienCsThat Lem
Brown & Wife Went Through
Was, and as a Result They
Was Separated for a Spell
SiCkening PartickIeTs Below

Mr. and Mrs Lem Brown, two. Of
our most respected citizens and best
known residents, have Just passed
through turrible experience. which
they will remember with regret and
loathing as long as they live. and
which they hope will never happen 20
them again during their born DAYS.
Mrs. Brown says she hopes that Z
what happened TO them has 70 hapoen
again, i will be TO somebuddv else
who IS more deserving Of calamity and
misfortune than she and Lem is-she
says she don't know what they could
Of did 10 have SIGH turrible thing
visited upon EN-.
Last Wednesday ev'g just about dark
Mrs. Brown had occashion 10 20 down
cellar for something or uther and she
noticed back IN the gloom OF one cor
ner cat, and being scairt OF cats Mrs
Brown said TO herself she would have
Lem put the intruder outen the cellar
when he returned home. Then she went
upstairs and forgot all about il until
along about bedtime she happened 70
think about that cat in the cellar. so
she asked Lem to 90 down cellar and
put II out Lem, who was tired and
sleepy, was for putin It OF until the
next morning He said the cat wouldn't
do no harm IN the cellar and might as
well stay there over night. but Mrs
Brown wouldn't hear Of this. and be-
ing as Lem generally does what his
wife orders, he started down cellar.
Mrs. Brown told him he had better
light a candle. but Lem said ne guessed
enuf moonlight would filter through
the cellar winders so he could see what
he was doing.
When Lem got down cellar he opened
the back cellar door and begun to paw
around for the cat. Finally ne got a
glimpse OF it over in a dark corner,
and being as he was pretty mad becuz
he had to bother with il at all. he thort
he would take his spite out on it, as
you might saw, so he saws, Cit outen
here. you pesky brute :" and with that
he kicked al the cat, but missed the
cat and hit the cellar wall, nearly
sprainlng his ankle, but before he could
kick again something happened, and
with a exclamashion Of horror and con-
tempt Lem staggered up the cellar
stairs and gasped out, It's a SlCunk!"
and when Mrs. Brown got a Whit Of
Lem she held her nose and screamed
for him to 90 outen the house this
minute and stay ont until he got aired
off. Lem he went out and set down on
the front piazza steps and held his
head in his hands and jest set there
grooming, as sick as dog. Mrs. Brown
she closed the cellar door, and after
she had sobbed and cried awhile to
think that such a thing as that should
happen in her house, she went 70 the
front door to see what had become OF
Lem, and when she saw him setting
there on the front piazza steps and
once more detected the odor which
clustered about him, she ordered him
often the premises.
Poor Lem, he went out to the barn
and slept in the hay NOW all night, and
the next mornin Mrs. Brown took ont
an old suit of clothes and left EN- out
side the barn, so Lem changed costumes
in the barn, got a shovel and buried
the clothes he had on when he en-
countered what he thort was a COM
mon house cat in the cellar. Meanwhile
the skunk still held the fort Mrs. Brown
told Lem if he had a spark of man
hood left in him be would get that