Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-04-26

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murmured Loretta.
There was man and his wife and
after a while girl came home from
college, having been graduated with
honors. Gee, she's as smart as whip!
And, honest, 1t doesn't keep her from
being pretty, either"
Il am really surprised" said Loret-
ia.
Well, somehow we got to be good
friends" the young man went on, dole
fully. TOO good friends for my COM
fort, 1t seems. Anyhow, l got inter
ested in her chickens-which are real
ly fine ones, you know, not the COM
mon kind at all. l could understand
how proud she was of them. She was
fond of any kind of pets and she had
cat that was a dream. 1t had a
long, plumed tail and had taken q
prize at every cat show for several
years. She positively worshipped that
cat.
After g. while mothers vegetables
came up and lot of flowers, for she's
master hand at growing things.
Then, just as i'll luck would have it,
something came and dug up her grow
ing things. 1t certainly was the limit.
Mother got so discouraged that she al.
most cried. l declared that I'd kill
the creature that did it on sight, what
ever it was"
Reckless"
"Well, l never thought of the chick.
ems" he proceeded, till found Ida
Flanders kind of chilly toward me.
asked her over the fence one morning
what the trouble was and she
said very pointedly that her most
valuable chickens were disappear.
ing at the rate of one a night
why didn't you tell her that you
didp't know anything about her chick.
ens?"
TELL her!" repeated the young man.
LAS If l didn't tell her! If l said 1t
once l said it a thousand times. But
do you think she would believe me
with that chickens head lying at my
feetP Not much! And you wouldn't
have either, not after my silly threat
to kill watever it was that tore up
mothers garden"
"What did you do about 1t after
that?"
cat first didn't think there was
thing ] cuunl do," he sighed. Ida
wouldp let me come near enough to
speak to her. 1t made me wild to see
her ..Ig at everybody else"
81 wouldn't have given her a sec
ond thought since she was so unjust"
ooh, yes, you would" the young Iuan
assured her. ut would have been all
very well to talk like that in the
spring, but it was too late for me to
quit thinking of her then. Why, lay
awake nights trying to fix it up and
it was not until last week that had
an idea
''It was the very day she bowed to
me as she was going out with young
Saunders. You know. he squipts or
something. Well, bowling to me was
more than she had done for so long
that | sort of took heart and sharpened
my wits. / had been so downhearted
that | hadn't really tried before.
"As a result of that inspiration
made the finest trap You ever saw
neat, too, by Jove! 1t was sort Of
original, because l had to fit it
against the side of the chicken house
and make it large enough to squeezs
a mans arm as we'll as kill rat.
81 had it there two nights before It
caught thing and then when I went
to look at it before going down to the
office l forNl It had worked. There
was cat in /, ?atght just as securely
as you please am aead rs a ds,ornall."
"Oh, how splenui" Loretta cried.
THAT surely will please your fair
neighbor"
The young man looked at her sor.
rowfully. do you think so?" he asked.
"You see, it was her cat!"-Chicago
Daily News.