, 1917-11-15

q bottle on your"
"Ohl" Margaret laughed relieved.
"There was a bottle on my dressing
table, and noticed your name pasted
on it; but I don't think there was any
thing inside except water"
Penrod jumped up and down. "What
did you do with it?' he roared.
81 gave 1t to Katie, and told her to
ask you If you wanted it, and If you
didn't"
Penrod left an overturned chair to
blaze his trail. He burst into the
kitchen, and Katie was there, bending
over the sink.
Where's my snake?"
"Oh, LordI' walled Katie. clutching
at her heart.
"What'd you do with my sna-a-ke?"
"What did 1 what?"
"In a bottle !" he beloved. Mar
garet gave you my bottle with my
sna-a-ake in it! 1 want my snake"
"There wasn't any snake in it." said
Katie. "There wasn't nothln' in it.
Miss Marg'rut says the bottle had your
name on 1t, and I should ask you did
you want 1t, and I showed 1t to Della
and she says she van 1t to put
some strip in it, and I wouldn't let her
have 1t till l asked you, and you come
in, and 1 started to ask you what fer
you wanted 1t, and you says Cat fur
to make kitten britches with and
went on upstairs, and So"
"Where is it," shouted Penrod
hoarsely; and ever in this agony of
suspense marked hat the clock stood
at 20 minutes of IL. "What did you
do with my snake?'
81 never saw no snake. Dc you
think I'd "a touched 1t If there'd "a
been any sn-"
"Where's my bother" demanded the
frenzied boy.
Here" said Katie, d~isengaging the
empty bottle from the towel with
which she was drying 1t. "You didn't
seem to ARE enough about 1t to answer
me, and I poured the water out, so
Della could use 1t. There wasn't
nothing in 1t at all-except a hair that
must "a fell in 1t somehow, n went
down the sink when l poured b wa
ter out"
Penrod ran amuck.
With a maniacal yell he struck the
bottle from her hand and fled toward
the front part of the house. In the
library he encountered a young cat
which had recently been adopted by
his mother for good luck" having fol-
lowed her on the street. A really in
telligent cat would nave fled from Pen
rods path at highest speed, but this
M came running to him, hopefully. 1t
proved to be the most important mis-
take of the young cats life.
To one maddened with outrage and
injustice, and suffering with the agony
of having just had his hearts idol
poured down the kitchen sink, the
sight of another persons pet-safe,
pampered, and wearing a pink ribbon
was merely GRAZING. With a glad
cry, Penrod plunged to meet the adj
vance of the young cat, who turned too
late, but precisely in time to leave his
extended tail in the feverish clutch of
the maddened boy.
Once, twice, thrice, Penrod swung
that electrified cat in a great circle,
with the radius of a full arm and half
a tail. The cat swept the air, Shrek
ing inconceivably with horror, and at
the top of Its third orbit went so
high, and so heartily, 1t brought down
a glass globe from the chandelier.
Startled EXPLANATIONS came from the
parlor, and, following them, the pro-
~jectors thereof: Margaret, Mr.. Ethel
bert Magsworth Bits and Mr.. Robert
Williams. They reached the library
in time to see the young cat become
aviator, and, released from a hurtling
hand, mount upward and upward upon
invisible currents till 1t disappeared