Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1913-01-01
"Great snakes, a Toman!"

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row. lease or no lease!"
Hell either go or will"
There might have been more mental
exclamations between the couple but
COR the cat and deg. They caught sight
Of each other, and the one began to
spit and the other to bark. It has ever
been so and always will be. In min
ute the hubbub caused twenty heads,
male and female, to appear at twenty
| different windows, and the mouths be-
longing to those respective heads
opened to emit words of different
lengths and meanings. The bleached
blondes led the procession, as usual:
"Git on to his dorg!"
"Put your dough on pussy!"
"He's getting bald-headed!"
"She's living on anti-fat!"'
Mister Perry Chase Perry chased In.
In the morning he would lick every
tenant in his fiat and then sue the
landlord for enormous damages.
Amanda Jane chased in. In the
morning she would also see lawyer.
She would not only see one about tt =
landlord, but about the man who had
so brazenly occupied the other fire es-
cape. Had he remained in his rooms
all would have been we'll. It was be-
cause of him she had been insulted in
that outrageous manner and she
would lay her damages at $4,000 and
not cent less.
When morning came, however, no
one visited lawyer and no suits were
begun. A nights reflection had
brought different plans. For the next
three evenings the escapes were va
cant, and the twenty tenants who
were watching for more fun gave up
In despair. On the fourth evening
Amanda Jane and her cat and pad and
pencil reappeared. Five minutes later
Perry Chase Perry and his bulldog
and cane and pad and pencil showed
up.
"There she Isl" he whispered to
himself.
"The brazen thing!" she whispered
to herself.
Darn an old maid, anyhow!"
Hes been Tilted for sure!"
The cat and the dog saw each other
from the first, but made no hostile
moves. They are not to be depended
on to act twice alike under the same
circumstances. 1t was very quiet.
Amanda Jane sat with her head down
and thought and thought and made
strenuous efforts to find rhyme for
the word "huckleberry," and Perry
Chase Perry invented and rejected
dozen different names for the book he
would some day write. Just one ten
ant looked out of her window, and
after peer and peek she drew her
head in and mused to herself:
"Now, then, why don't they coo and
be sensible? I never heard Of two peo-
pie falling in love on fire escape, but
1t can be DONE"
There was just five minutes more of
the heavenly peace, and then the bull.
dog suddenly remembered the cat. The
cat had climbed up on the railing OF
the escape and was blinking her eyes
In sleep. The bark OF the dog. and
the rush he made gave her a scare,
and she lost her hold and went down
to destruction.
Screams from Amanda Jane
screams, and then she tainted.
Cuss-words from Perry Chase Perry
and then his fool of dog leaped the
railing and went down after the cat.
He wasn't going to let any grimalkin
bluff him.
Ten minutes later Amanda Jane re.
covered consciousness. She was lying
on the lounge in her sitting room, and
Mr.. Perry Chase Perry was bathing
her face with camphor brought in by
a tenant-bathing her face with a
mothers care and saying to the other:
poor girl! II she dies I can never
forgive myself"
"My cat!" exclaimed Amanda Jane, |
as she sat up.
Deau, anu SO 1S my Gulldog!
"But you--you-"
II rushed up here without a seconds
delay"
"But your dog?"
"What is the welfare OF bulldog
compared to that Of lady?"
"You are so, so kind" sighed Aman.
da Jane as she let him hold her hand. |
Three evenings later, as one fire
escape held both people, that same
woman looked out Of her window again
and saw them and drew bach to smile
and say:
It knew they could fall in love, and
they have! Why, folks can fall ia!
love up tree if they only make Up:
their minds to it,"
Copyright, 1912. by Associated Literary
Press.)