The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1914-04-10


This morning they took q new route.
Destiny would have 1t 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
go 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 nasty pig there!"
And you have villain OF a 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 a pig and goat meet there
must be deadly conflict, but a rec
ord has been made with this story.
The goat was the attacker but the pig
stood to his guns. The goat used his
horns and hoofs; the pig used his
snout and teeth.
Call your pig OFF,"
Call your goat Off"
Your pig began the fuss!"
Your goat began it,"
you are no gentleman"
you are nice young LADY,"
A crowd gathered. That crowd
made remarks. 1t made remarks to
the girl and to the young man. 1t
gave advice to the goat and to the
pig. 1t advised the goat to pin the pig
to the fence with his horns and hold
him there until life was extinct. 1t
advised the pig to remember Bunker
Hill and go In and make q whirlwind
finish Of 1t.
Not until the police came did each
owner gather up the remains of his
animal and quit the scene of the COM
bat. Their glai es expressed nothing
but supreme indignation as they
turned away. 1t was SO plain that they
wished each other destruction In some
awful form that a chauffeur who had
stopped to witness the affair while the
meter went right on recording, felt
called upon to express himself:
Gee! but 'sposen he should fall In
love with that girl some day! How
she would turn him DOWN."
And 1t happened. 1t was bound to
happen. Destiny wouldn't have missed
such golden opportunity for all the
old second hand hats in Boston. A
fad Is acquired as easily as a cold In
the head. Some run about the same
length Of time-some little longer.
but they are bound to be abandoned
for something else.
Miss Nora Lee got home from the
scene of that tragedy disguised with
her goat and herself. 1t wasn't the
same goat with which she so blithely
set out an hour before. and she
wasn't the same girl. She found her
self hoping that the goat would jump
the fence and take himself OF to be
seen by her no more. Then she would
buy a parrot or a tame crow, or a
squirrel with a wheel in his cage.
She might even turn to French bull
dog or an alligator from Florida.
And Mr.. Burt Wiltshire reached
home to telephone to the nearest
butcher:
Say. now, do you want to buy a
pig?"
yep. Got one for sale?"
81 have"
How much?"
eff you take him away at once you
can have him for two dollars"
"All right-he's NINE"
Mr.. Wiltshire also determined to
drop his pig-fad for another. 1t might
be for a donkey or a camel-he would
think it over.
And one day two weeks later the
girl without the goat and the young
man without a pig met face to face
on the street. Each wavered. Each
halted. Each blushed and was con-
fused.
& want to beg your pardon!" he
finally managed to say.
And want to beg yours" was the
reply.
1T was all my pigs fault"
"I believe my goat began the row."
"It was so sudden that-that-"
"The same with me-"
81 have sold the pig"
"And my goat has got away, and l
don't want him back"
And then and there came a new fad
for each one. 1t was interest In
human being of the opposite sex.
Copyright 1919. by the Mcclure News