Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-02-06

Il want my SNAKE! left 1t III
bottle on your"
"Oh!" Margaret laughed relieved.
There was a bottle on my dressing
table, and noticed your name pasted
on it; but l don't think there was any
thing inside except water"
Penrod jumped up and down. sWhat
did you do with it?' he roared.
Il gave it 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, Lord!' walled Katie, clutching
at her heart
"What'd you do with my sna-a-ke?"
"What did I what?"
''In a bother" he beloved. "Mar-
garet gave you my bottle with my
sna-a-ake in it! I want my snake!"
"Thcre wasn't any snake in it," said
Katie. ''There wasn't n0thin' in it.
Miss Marg'rut says the bottle had your
name on it, and should ask you did
you want it, and I showed it to Della
and she says she wants it to put
some strip in it, and wouldn't let her
have it till I asked you, and you come
in, and [ started to ask you what fer
you wanted it, and you says Cat fur
to make kitten britches with, and
went on upstairs, and So"
'Where is it?" shouted Penrod
hoarsely; and even in this agony of
suspense marked that the clock stood
at 20 minutes of II. "What did you
do with my snake?"
81 never saw no snake. Do you
think I'd "a touched it if there'd "a
been any sn-"
'Where's my bottle?' demanded the
frenzied boy.
"Here," said Katie, disengaging the
empty bottle from the towel with
which she was drying it. "You didn't
seem to care enough about It to answer
me, and I poured the water out, so
Della could use it. There wasn't
nothing in it at all-except hair that
must "a fell in it somehow, and went
down the sink when l poured the wa
ter out"
PenrOd ran amuck.
With a maniacal yell he struck the
bottle from her hand and fed 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
tellig6nt cat would have fled from Pen
rods path at highest speed, but this
one came running to him, hopefully. It
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 q pink ribbon
was merely Grazing. With a glad
cry, Penrod plunged to meet the ad-
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 full arm and half
a tail The cat swept the air, Shrek
ing inconceivably with horror, and at
the top of it's third orbit went SO
high, and so heartily, it 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 hurting
hand, mount upward and upward upon
invisible currents till it disappeared
through the upper section Of win
dow, which was 'down from the top"
Crimson, Infatuated, Penrod turned
upon his dumfounded sister.
"YOu ruined my snake !" he bleated.
'You watch what do to your old gold
fish 70
He darted out of her OBTAINING fin
gers, and though she pursued, and
Robert Williams pursued, and Ethel
bert Magsworth Bits pursued, he had
seized upon the bowl of gold fish and
was out in the hall with it before the
hand of manor girl-cOuld be laid
upon him.
On the hall table reposed two straw
hats; one was Roberts; the other,
which bore the mark Of q London
maker, was the hat Of Ethelbert Mays
worth Bits.
Margaret, rushing through the door
way, uttered a lamentable cutlery. But
Penrod Disseminated nothing between
these hats. With a mighty effort he
heaved the bowl of gold fish upside
down and poured water and fish as
equally as he could into the two hats.
Then he threw the empty bowl bold
~ into the stomach of Ethelbert Mays
worth Bits, his nearest pursuer, and.