The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-09-16

This time there was an old clo'es basket
round there turned upside down. guess it
got in the way so she threw it out And
what do you suppose. There was Peat lying
out straight on the cloes basket with his front
legs curled right round the shatelane bag.
1t looked as if he did it to be smart too, be-
cause when he saw us coming he picked it
up in bis mouth and kind of ferted his tail.
Well never stopped to think but hollered
at him drop it. As it turned out it was the
werst thing / could have done. The thing
of it is, Peat has quite queer disposition
for dog, and if he thinks you want him to
do something he always would rather do
just opposite. So when I hollered at him
drop it, he just jumped right off the cloes
basket and started to run round in circle,
something as if he was fooling us, and then
right up the steps where they keep the milk
bottles and into the house That was the
werst thing that he could have done too.
Because Peaty's aunt was there / never
thought Peaty's aunt was very nice because
she always seemed kind of mean and bossey
with Peaty. And it turned out she was Just
about the same with Peat. So she took the
dish mop.
Get right out of here, she hollered and
began chasing him with the dish mop. Of
course she ought to know the disposition
Peat was, and not have spoken so bossey.
Anyway it just made him run under the
sink as if he wouldn't do it then anyhow.
Get right out, she said Just as mean and
bossey as ever, and she took the coal shovel
and began kind of shovelling him out She
didn't seem to notice the. shatelane bag till
she got him out and then she said What in
creations that you've brought In.
That made Peat feelexackly oppositefrom
before. Because of course with his dispersi-
ton he could see right off she wanted to
know, so he turned round and ran out to
pervent her.
You find out what he's got therel she
hollered out the door. But nobody seemed
to be listening much because Peaty was
running after Peat and was running after
Peaty. And Peat was quite aways ahead.
He had pushed under the side fence and was
going straight for the mill away across the
field. 1t backs up to the field and is where
, they make waste that you clean bicycles
and things with. You can just see it from our
back windows upstairs and there is kind of
creek there behind it, but it doesn't look
really much more than real wide brook.
So they usyually call it mill brook. don't
know whether Peat planned where he
would go at first, but when he came to
mill brook he went right across the ittel
bridge that went over it, and then he turned
round and sat down and looked back.
Don't you say anything, Peaty said real
low, He's awful brave and likes 10 do just
opposite. You have to know just how to
manidge him. And Peaty crowched down on
his knees right there on the bridge so they
were facing each other with Peaty one end
and Peat the other.
It's all in being use to him, Peaty whis-
pered, but he looked kind of SCARED too.
He coNA see if Peat dropped the shatelane
bag Fould go in the water. He could see
It plane as anything, and yet he kind Of
hitched along a Ittel on the bridge, and
what do you suppose. Drop it, Peat, he
said, and Peat had It right out over the
water when he said it.
Drop it Peat, he said, Drop it.
Peat looked back as much as to say BIZ
wouldn't.