The Red Cloud chief., 1913-11-13
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
HER FAD..AND HIS
BY CLYDE PARSONS.

Miss Nora Lee for having one. too? II
wasn't a great big fad, and one to
keep the police busy and the babies
on the block awake o nights. but a
reasonable fad, and was not seriously
objected to even by people with
Crouch
Miss Nora was not a moving picture
fend; she did not 20 to ball games
more than twice in season, she
did not attend the races at all. Her
fad was--cats--dogs. rabbits? Not at
all! She lavished her affections on
goat. and he wasn't anything Of
beauty at that. In fact. he was
scrub goat. He was built on the lines
OF a saw-buck He was homely from
the tip of his nose to the tip Of his
tall. He remained gaunt despite the
food set before him. He evinced no
gratitude for her love and care and he
wasn't bit proud when he was led
along the street with. yards Of blue
ribbon streaming in the breeze and
silver bell around his neck.
Mistress and goat were bound to at
tract attention when they walked out.
Adults stared. small boys INDUCED in
levity. and dogs seemed to have
longing to try conclusions with
BILLY"
However. q fad wouldn't be much
OF a fad unless 1t attracted atten-
ton. and while Miss Nora tried to look
calm and unconscious. there Is no
doubt that she felt glows of pride as
she caught such remarks as:
Did you ever!"
Can you beat IT,"
why don't she love hippo"
Hasn't she father or "a mother?"
"A hobble skirt and u pet goat
thunder!"
Miss Nora's father was dead. and
her mothers objections to her fad car.
'ried no weight.
Does Billie bite any one?" the
daughter would ask.
"Of course not"
Does he bark and disturb us!"
No"
Does he cost any more to keep
than a dog?"
Il guess not"
He isn't handsome. but isn't he bet.
ter looking than bull dog?"
Yes"
"Then what's the matter with my
keeping . goat?"
ITS so unusual"
wasn't the split skirt unusual two
years ago?"
Living half a mile away was Mr.
Burt Wiltshire. He had a fad. In.
stead Of leading a goat about the
streets, he led q pig. 1t was a black
pig with red ribbon for collar. 1t
had been trained so It could be led
like . dog. That pig was also
an innovation as we'll as fad The
police had tried to suppress 1t. but
the courts had held that 1t had the
same rights as dog and was not
half as dangerous.
Like the goat. the pig attracted
much attention when out for an air.
ing, and like Miss Nora the young
man at the other end of the lead re-
ceived such expressions from the pub
lie as:
rs he an escaped idiot?"
Does he belong to a side-show?"
Can the pig tell fortunes with
cards?"
It might have ben figured out by
mathematician that there was just
one chance In ten thousand that the
girl and her goat and the young man
and his pig would ever meet on the
street in q head.on collision. That
one chance came to them. It was so
willed by the Destiny that shapes our
ends. At nine o'clock one morning
Miss Nora and her goat we're taking
a promenade for their health and 9th.
er reasons. There was an abandon
about them that was charming. That
is. they occupied most of the sidewalk.
and their motto was. the public be
hanged.
At the same hour Mr.. Burt Wilt.
shire and his educated black pig set
out for their stroll. They had here.
tofore taken one particular direction.
This morning they took a new route.
Destiny would have II so.
Get on to the goat!"
"Where'd he get the pig!"
That's the latest thing at New.
port!"
"Oh. Lord, what things we do see
in a town."
As the public exclaimed the human
and animal objects gradually ap.
preached each other.
They finally met. There was no
record in sacred or profane history to
60 by-no society rule laid down In
the blue or red book. Therefore the
Jim dandy goat and the educated pig
bumped against each other.
"Sir!" demanded the girl.
"Miss!" replied the man.
"YOu have got a nasty pig there!"
"And you have a villain of q goat!"
Don't you dare let your pig"
"And your goat"
1T was too late. No work on natur.
al history--no writer on heart throbs
in the yellow journals. has told US
that when Q pig and goat meet there