The Lakeland evening telegram., 1914-01-17

However, fad wouldn't be much
OF fad unless it attracted atten.
tion, 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 ito
Why don't she love a hippol"
Hasn't she father or a mother?s
"A hobble skirt and 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 dog?"
u 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?"
IT'S so unusual"
Wasn't the split skirt unusual two
years ago."
Living half mile away was Mr..
burt Wiltshire. He had a fad. In
stead of leading a goat about the
streets, he led pig. 1t was a black
pig with red ribbon for collar. It
had been trained so it could be led
like dog. That pig was also
an innovation as well as fad. The
police had tried to suppress it, but
the courts had held that it had the
same rights as a 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:
ls ne an escaped IDIOT"
Does he belong to side-show?"
Can the pig tell fortunes with
cards?"
1t might have ben figured out by a
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 a head-on collision. That
one chance came to them. It was 80
willed by the Destiny that shapes our
ends AT nine o'clock one morning
Miss Nora and her goat were taking
. 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
,ut for their stroll They had here
,ofore taken or g D"r;icular direction.
This morning ineY took new route. Y
Destiny would faye it 50. I
Get on to the goat" ,
"Where'd he get the pig!"
That's the latest thing at New. &
,ort!" :,
"Oh, Lord. what things we do see '
n town."
As the public exclaimed the human Il
nd animal objects gradually ap- D
roached each other. a
They finally met. There was M n
ecord in sacred or profane history to a
o by-no society rule laid down in ,r
he blue or red book. Therefore the II
IN dandy goat and the educated mig h,
umped against each other. h.
"Sir!" demanded the girl. ce
Miss" replied the man. o,
You have got nasty pig there,- lie
And you have villain Of a goat!~ az
Don't you dare let your pig" III
"And your goat" p,
1t was too late. No work on natur ca
history-no writer on heart throbs "
the yellow journals, has told us
lat when pig and a goat meet there
ust be a deadly conflict, but a rec
d has been made with this story.
he goat was the attacker but the pig
ood to his guns. The goat used his
'rns and hoofs; the pig used his
lout and teeth
Call your pig off," no
Call your goat OIL"
Your pig began the fusst-
Your goat began it,"
You are no gentleman"
You are a nice young lady,- IL,
A crowd gathered. That crowd =.