The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-11-09


viii you get your dog away or not2 she
asked him
He didn't answer her right off, but
could hear him swallow as If he was be-
ginning to feel quite nervus about it,
Very we'll, she said, | shall go right in here
and tclefone for the poleece.
Peaty looked so nervus then. ! thought
praps it would stop her. But it didn't
Wait just moment, dear, she called up
to the cat, I'm coming right back to you.
And she went straight in the house
Peaty turned his head round very slow to
make sure that she was gone, and then he
turned it again and looked back at Peat,
and from the expression of his face | could
see that he was going to do il this time if
he dyed for it,
Keep still Peat he said i'll a kind OF
SCARED whisper Don't you move Just
keep still Peat.
Peat gansed down as If he hadn't in
tirely made up his mind whether he d keep
still or not, and Peaty backed off littel
lords the gait.
Don't you move anyway, Peat he whis-
pered littel louder. Don you move Peat.
And Peat gansed down again and then
he kind OF edged off sevral inches from the
tree.
Stop it Peat. And Peaty spoke right
out loud that time and backed Of lust a
littel more lords the gait. Stop it, Don't
you dair Peat
You see the queer thing about Peat is, he
mas never been really known to take a
dair, and Peaty knew it. So
Stop it, Peat. he said. Don you dair,
Peat! .~.-.sA~s...>.
And Peat he fattened himself right out
on the ground, as much as to say it might
be dangerous, but he would risk it anyway,
and then he just slid himself along as much
as yard lords Peaty.
Well the unexpeckted thing was, just at
that minute the poarch door opened and
the lady who oned the cat walked right
down the steps. But Peaty didn't see
her He was watching Peat too close
And she stopped right where she was as
if she didn't intirely understand it anyway,
and watched them both. ~ey
| tell you stop right where you are Peat
Peaty said, as il he meant it too. DON you
go and risk it Peat!
And Peat he Aattened down more than
ever, as if he could see the danger but be
WASH t going to be any howard, and then
he slid right along lords Peaty.
Peaty backed out OF the gait then.
Don't YOU come through that gait any
way, Peat. he said in very loud whisper
that. time. Don't you dair do anything
like that Peat,
And Peat kept sliding along hatter than
ever, because with his disposition OF course
he couldn't take a dair.
Well, if the lady who oned the cat hadn't
kept so still, of course she would have
spoiled it. but she didn't she never spoke
a word till she saw Peat 60 sliding right
out through the gait, and Peaty catch him
by the collar.
Well thank goodness, she kind of berst
out then. But she turned and glansed
out at Peaty and Peat as il she didn't
intirely understand il vet. Well thank
Goodness, she said again, but of all unheard
of methuds.
And she walked right across the yard.
Come down now YOU poor dear, she said
very pleasantly. And the werst part of
the whole thing happened then.
Come down now, she said very pleas
entity again, but the cat never moved bit,
Just looked down as much as to say she
would If she could but she couldn't.
Wy come down, she said There's nothing
to hurt YOU now, come down dear
But the cat was so high up she couldn't
even make the least move so she Just
looked down again as much as to say. wy
she would ii she could but she couldn't.
Wy she can't get down the lady holered
right out. Oh dear, On dear Can't she
get DOWN Wy she must get down, She'll
starse up there' Oh dear, somebody must
get her down. LII vestatd anyone Who'll
get her down. FL reward anyone hand
sosnels on the spot who'll get hsr do6n'
Be pasient DEAR she called UP as il She
was just about discouraged anyway, oh
try to be pasient Just litte lonrerl
The cat looked down as much as to say
she was kind OF tired Of that, and then the
lady she went hurrying into the house
again.
When she did that | started right out
for Peaty But hs was gene an1 50 vas
Peat Veil, I dsdn't think Of anything
more, but Just went racing up thA street
could see them ahead there, Peat kind
Of fefting his tail and leading off. and
Tselty walking on behind him And I
caught I'd,