The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-11-10

A Lovers Lobster
By DONALD ALLEN
1910. by Associated Literary,Press

and especially so VIII IN his lady love
was with him. To have stated in re
ply that he vas carrying home a live
lobster was beyond him. He would
perish first. He would lie first. He
did lie. He said it was a pair OF
shoes for his mother. The falsehood
was believed. 1t even gave Miss Kitty
a warmer feeling at the heart tc
know that she was soon to wed a mar
who cared whether his old mother
went around barefooted in the nipping
frosts or had shoes to her feet.
Once aboard the car, they sat down
together as usual. They were chatty
and happy. She was going that eve
ming to learn how to trim her own
hats, and he was going to revive his
mothers lost appetite. Then. of a
sudden, the dull thud came. Cupid
flew out and the live lobster crawled
in.
Shoe store boxes get O great deal
OF handling. When business is dull
the clerks throw them across the
store at each other in sportive mood
The one in which Mr.. White was car
rying home the champion fighting
lobster had been sported with and
more or less wrecked. One end had
been busted and weakened. The lob
ster hadn't been in the coop ten min
utes before he caught on. 1t was es-
cape or boiling death for him. He
didn't want to boil. He went at that
weak corner and clawed and bit and
tore. with the result that ten minutes
after the lovers were seated in the
car, with the box between them, he
emerged into the sunshine of liberty.
1t Is not necessary to read natural
history to learn that the first idea OF
a lobster on getting his freedom is to
make for the salty sea-; the next is to
nip any one in the way. This lobster
dropped to the floor with a thud and
clawed the happy Miss Kitty on the
ankle belonging to one of those arts
tocratic insteps. He clawed in earnest
She sprang to her feet with a scream,
and then shouted:
Horace, the man here-he has
pinched mel"
Horace didn't lose time swearing b.
the beard of his father. The man was
understood and thin and unhappy. He
had lost a dollar on the street the
day before. and was thinking of IL
when the gallant Horace knocked lin
to the floor.
Miss Henderson got another bite,
screamed another scream, and Hor
ace picked up a drug store clerk and
slammed him around without mercy
Then the lobster started for the res,
platform, and that car became a cir
Gus for the next five minutes. Women
shrieked and lei swore, and the con
ductor called for a shotgun.
In the midst of the uproar one could
hear the voice of the girl with the in
step. She had solved the riddle
Mothers shoes" were a monster lob
ster! Horace had lied to her! He
had caused her to be clawed. He had
caused an lproar that must disgrace
her for life. He sought to explain, but
1t was no use. How could such a thing
be explained? The understood man
said it couldn't possibly be. and the
drug clerk said he'd be hanged If 1
could. The conductor also said that q
mai who would deliberately permit
fighting lobster to get away on
street car was no gentleman. to say
the least.
Did Cupid come again? oh. yes
That match was made In heaven. ant
an earthly lobster couldn't spoil 1t
After weeks and weeks, with a writ
ten confession and apology daily from
Horace-after the mothers lost appe
tite had been restored by salt macker
ell, there vas a making up. The papers
said that there was a marriage-mar
riage and a dinner-with lobster left
out!