The Prescott daily news., 1910-01-20

doing things that showed her red and green stockings clear up to the gar ters. It looked like a hopeless task, and Glaphyra began to doubt that Bedilla was really q Quat. for every Quat had always tried to be a replica of Mrs. Waiting-for-theCo Quat. She was quite discouraged.
 But one day when she was more discouraged than ever she happened to think that Mrs. Waiting-for-the ing Quat was only back some eight or ten generations, while Bedilla was act ing as the monkeys had acted for the last eight or ten thousand years, and that Bedilla was probably acting just as the original Quat monkey, from whom all the Quats and all the moL keys had descended, had acted. She saw, right then, that Bedilla had the best of her, and was copying the old est Quat Of all and that the monkey Quats had certainly retained the genu- inc original Quat characteristics At first this was a shock to Glaphyra, and pained her. but she immediately began to rectify her mistake, and to adopt the habits of the original Quat, as she was in duty bound to do An cestTal pride made it a duty
 It was pretty hard work for GIaphy- ra to shin up the bed-post and stand on her head on the top of it. It was, as one might say, unaccustomed eXer- else for Glaphyra. But she went at il with a hearty will and did the best she could. She never quite attained the ability to stand on her head on top of the bed-post, for she was too long to do that without letting her feet stick up through the ceiling into the attic, but in few months she managed to climb to the top of the bed-post and jabber Then she would get down on the floor and stand on her head in the corner
 The next month she began to mas ter the art of tree-climbing. and she did pretty good work at it, but she saw what mistake the first Quat that had discarded the tail had made. Often when she fell with a rattling noise to the earth from a high bow, she regret ted the tail, but she did the best she could without it, poor thing She got so she could jump gracefully from the second story window into the oak tree and hang from the topmost limb by her knees, and the best society of Betzville frequently gathered in her yard to see her do it. Several of our most distinguished citizens remarked that Glaphyra was really making a perfect monkey of herself
 But last Wednesday afternoon the end came. Glaphyra was practicing jumping from the top of the piano to the chandelier when Bedilla deliber- ately sat down on the floor and re- moved her red and green stockings and chewed them to rags. Then she removed her black calico dress and chewed that to rags. And so on. as chewed everything, and had no clothes left, she dashed gaily from the house and climbed the telephone in front of the gate. For just one moment Glaphyra hesitated, and she had pulled off one red and green stocking. but when she glanced out of the front window and saw the best citizens of Betzville gathering around the tele- phone pole she pulled the stocking on again and decided that Darwin was an old fraud, anyway, and that Be- dilla was only an ignorant foreigner. When the crowd had waited half an hour they sent Uncle Ashdod Cute in to see what had happened to Gla. phyra, and he found her in the kitchen making a green apple pie according to the recipe of Mrs. Waiting -for-the- Coming Susan Ann Quat.
 Copyright, 1909, by w. G. Chapman.)