Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-01-31
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.Hsteu< ,yot ever lived In e:fat,S
s3ked. its youpp Woman subffbsnits
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* fats no place ,for us, OF al pso-i
bls-seyeu-kfds IN, ths,famh}. Ad, four
OF them boys that always weN used
10 "a MOUSE md didn't know how to-
close dtoss softly and not d<ob. their;
boots khan they 90 To bed and rsfraint
ff1rf p6ty1hs the piano al nisnS after
tta ohEM ID our But We I'D livel
u q fiat for q wrfIs. in the esburbs,
and just updssneatt N we had some
ytfsr people that newer ought to- have
lived "a a fat either:
AT least. the man oughtnt. His wife
INIT mind a reasonable amount OF
racxet, but whan be was home, my
soodmsss, you couldn't snseze bnt he'd
hear ran and kick like a. steer.
"OuR night we had little party, We
Kids, and Of course we we're. having
fun. 10 wasn't lste---oriiy shout quar-
ter to ten--but he got the landlord and
brought him up. into our han and stood
him opposite our door. and told him
lust to listen. That's the kind Of man,
our landlord was.
Tbs night We beard he was going
TO move we gave him a parting sere-
made with everything we could and
that would make noise. from the
dish.pan ana potato-mashcr rp to
Rob'S ccrnets
But I didn't start TO tell you about
that. What was thinking of was how
there never IL any place to put things
In q dat and the time that Anne and I
went to the Thanksgiving party and
Anna won goose In a guessing con-
tsst
What? No. that was the worst OF
TIT wasn't a dad goose. It was a
live one, with ell Its feathers on, and
q votcey MY goodness. tnst goose had
o vo1cei
They made Us take It along and we
walked home with thst idiotic thing In
our arms Every once In a While 1t
would Look up at Anne and squawk,
! and then, we,d haze 70 sit down on the
curbstops and laugh Tor tsw painutes
before ve cDuA 60 on. You've no idea
bow loud q sounded In thosa empty
streets. know everybody Tin the
place ohpngh$ We were crazy
Wei, anyhow. we got homo with
that goose. The minute we got inside
the vestfb1ie Il bad another squAwk-
ing ft. Anne tried DO smother It IN
her pet1tcnat. but that only made It
squhwk worse
I'VE set il down ON the stairs and
tried to pactiy Il remember that
Anne said Poor kittyP and Sob.
boes. and SInshahy, mothers lamb
and Sried to sing n q lullaht. but
couldn't DO anything but snort,
-Anpe suggested thst we TIC II to-
the nerwoas mans door With Q string
and Lot d sauaEk--t Ignuid distr2ct
bis stnmt3W fspm uA anyway. Bat
said ulaf, meant % ksgp that goose
now thaf, we'd got II homas 80 weS
won't useaars snd un1orSsd ID door
To our spaStrnnnt
-rnen knrs tod 1ns % wxAt =. MIN
utA Thai thing wan ksAp " al
R~aas q W lee u sunzwx gtz-ntxnt,'
yhA said. I've gue an elastic tand IN
my pocbst book and cm sotts to.
muzxle iS'
Pretty soon she found Q strong.
healthy, thick, elastic band. and though,
we nearly died doing II, we got II on
Efat goose's spout The beast insisted
on turning its head to look at US ALI
the time, too, and when we finally had,
II on the noise II made trying to.
squawk through the muzzle was worse
than before. though. OF course. It didn't
have quite as much volume.
well. as said. there isn't any
place to put things In a fat: When we
got to looking around for a place to
put the goose we were stumped.
Il SUPPOSE geese ought to roost,
oughtn't they? But there didn't seem
10 be anything like a roost in the fat
except the mahogany hatrack. and
mammals very choice Of that. knew
she wouldn't stand for any geese
roosting there, SO Just as was about
10 give up and put II under our bed
Anne suggested that we keep II in the
bathtub-
II wish you could have seen that,
creature slithering around ON the,
porcelain bottom Of the bathtub try
ing to squawk through the elastic band
and looking reproachfully at US. Hon,
eetly, II would have given a mourning
angel the hiccoughs. Anne suggested
turning on the water. but I said
wasn't going to make that poor goose
exercise all night so we left It dry
and went to bed.
Mother was the one who found IL
IN the morning. She went to taks her
bath early, and when she met the
goose face TO face she let out shrek
that brcrsh. every soul IN the IA. cut
Of bed with one 4ump.
We ruAhsd 10 the hathrpnm and
found rncthsr 70 bar hmnno md curl