The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-10-07
ANGEL CHILD SEES PET SHOW.
Watches Girls Get Scared at Cat
With Fit-Fine Fun for Him.

Say, y 'oughter bin at our school
house yestiddy.
There ain It no county fair as ever
wuz has anything on them there flower
and pet shows what US children held in
the public schools yestiddy.
Every one nv us brought some kind
of a pet and the gurls and some Nv the
fellers brought flowers and vegetables
but most of the fun wuz the animals.
When y started goin' down into
the room where the show WIZ you
would hear the terriblest rackets
The dogs wuz howlin and barkin !,
the cats was me-owin and the pupils
was chattering and laughin at the
animals an trying to pet the dogs and
rabbits and then jerkin away if a
ginny pig or somethin made a quick
move, cuz they wuz afraid they'd bite.
An I never knew till yestiddy that
ginny pigs could make noise. They
peep a little bit like chickens, but not
near SO loud, just a go-to-sleep kind of
a sound. There wuzn t no go-to-sleep
quality about them roosters that was
CROWN though, and there wuzn It
none in that little fox TERROR dog that
got dismal and nearly howled his head
off in spite of all the wimmen tryin
to amuse him by talkin to him. The
canaries made heap of noise but it
wuz so much cheerfuller n the others
that nobody didn't mind them.
Say, but the most excitement wuz
over at the Durkee school when NAL
tese cat had a fit and jumped up and
down in the waste basket she was in.
and tipped it over and mewed and
somebody yelled to somebody else not
to touch it because she might blight
through the cracks, and really it was
nothin at all but that she wuz just
scared crazy becauz dog set on each
side of her, and KEEP barkin' and she
didn t know they couldn t git her.
Teacher put white cloth over the
opening so she couldn t see out and
then the cat stopped jumping around
SO, or mebbe it was becuz she was so
tired she couldn t jump any more.
Y jus oughter seen the queer things
that wuz in the shows. One fellow
brought an alligator. Somebody else
brought chameleon and whut d'y'
think he had it in2 just a common
wire screen fly trap and the flies KEEP
going in it just as if they didn't know
he was there and every time one came
near him he showed out that long pink
tongue Of his n and grabbed it. Some
,surprize on the fly, bet.
Then they wuz two sleepy white
mice in a big fruit jar. They hardly
kept awake long enough to eat the
stuff that was in the jar for 'em.
An one big white duck wuz in a
cage with a maltese kitten and that
wuz pritty near the only cat in that
show that didn't yowl, 50 7 kinder
guess the thing to do is not to let 'em
be alone if you want to keep 'em quiet.
There wu4 a dog named Toodles at
one of the Shows and the or mary lit
tie pup was all dolled up; had her
brown and white hair all washed and
curled for the occasion and harness
with bells on an a big pink bow tied
at her neck and she never kept still
minute, jus pointed her head up N the
air and howled as if she thought she
was Tettrazini hunting for her top note.
An you ought to have heard the
girls say, How luv'ly!" an Gain It
that tile sweetest thing you ever
SAVE" when they looked at the great
big pumpkins, squash and carrots.
An it was a fine exhibition Of fruit
and flowers, too My daddy and my ma
both went and they both said it was
a splendid thing and they hoped Mr..
Fogwell would have one just like it in
all the schools next year.