The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-06-02
BEDTIME STORIES
FOR LITTLE
FOLKS
MIScHJEVOUS FRiSkY.


she often told Frisky that all his four
brothers put together were not as much
trouble as he was, for he was always
in some sort of mischief.
Frisky wondered what she meant by
his four brothers put together.
They would be pretty big if they were
all put together" said Frisky, think
ing his mother must mean that his
brothers would be one big mouse.
"They would be bigger than mother if
they were put together, and then |
guess she would find that | am not
so bad
Frisky never was still only when he
was asleep, and he did not sleep long;
he was too anxious to know all that
was going on.
AS soon as his mother and father
went out at night Frisky would hop
out of bed. Out to the edge of the
hole he would go and poke out
his nose, and one night his father and
mother had to stay out all night just
because Frisky poked his nose out
and Puss saw it, so there she sat
thinking it was Frisky's father or
mother, and she would catch them
when they came out.
Frisky thought it would be great
sport to fool Puss, so he would run to
the hole as near as he dared and let
Puss see just the tiniest bit of nose,
and away he would run back to the
wall, and so his father and mother had
to stay out until Puss was called to
her breakfast by the cook.
"You can stay in bed all day to pay
for this" said Father Mouse, giving
Frisky a box on his ear. Look at
your little brothers; they are in bed /!
where they belong, asleep. but you |
had to get up. Will you never be- |
have?" /. 81
Huh" said Frisky from his bed. |
""They don't have bit of fun, and do.
You ought to have seen Puss; she !
made a dab at me and hit her paw
bang on the floor"
81 saw her." said Mother Mouse,
land | expected every minute to see
her catch you. Some day you will
get into some sort Of trouble that will
teach you t6~be q
Frisky cuddled D, in his bed and
went to sleep, and when he woke it
was quite dark; he Lad slept all day,
and it was night time again, and his
father and mother were out.
Frisky got up and went to the edge
Of the hole, but Puss was not there
so Frisky went outside the hole -
1t was nice and quiet so Frisky ran
about a bit, and the next thing he
Knew he was on a table.
"My. something smells good to me-"
le said, smelling of bottle. S
No one but Frisky would have c
hought mucilage had nice odor, but i
risky did so; he poked at it and put Il
lis front feet on the bottle until over
t came, and the mucilage ran all over v
Frisky, covering his head and body. v
ooh, OH" cried Frisky, Il didn't L
mean to do that. Isn't it horrid. sticky r
stuff? l guess I'll run away from it." o
So he jumped down on the floor, c
racking the mucilage all about and t
ceiling very uncomfortable; he ran L
nto the dining room and the careless b
maid had left the cover off the sugar r.
,owl, so Frisky looked in, then he il
,oked in his nose and it tasted good, b
70 he jumped in.
He buried himself in the sugar, and W
hen he felt so queer and stiff when h
lie jumped out that he ran for home. W
BY the time he was back in his Iii
ouse he was so stiff he could hardly
move; the sugar and the mucilage =
we're getting hard. al
When his mother and father came W
ONE they found poor little Frisky cry tn
ng and not able to move
"Where in the world have you al
een?" asked his mother &C
II only ran out for a little while, ar