The Marietta journal and courier., 1918-02-01
"Good gracious !


What In the world"
81 want my sna-a-ke! left 1t In
a bottle on your"
"Oh!" Margaret laughed relieved.
''There was a bottle on my dressing
table, and noticed your name pasted
on it; but 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 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 did 1 what?"
''In bottler' he beloved. MAR
garet gave you my bottle with my
sna-a-ake in it! / want my snake!
Katie. "There want nOthin' in it.
Miss Marg'rut says the bottle had your
name on it, and ( should ask you did
Won want 1t, and I showed 1t to Della
and she says she wants 1t to put
some sirup in it, and wouldn't let her
have 1t till 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 shaker"
ST 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 l poured the water out, so
Della could use 1t. There wasn't
nothing in it at all-except hair that
must "a fell in it somehow, and went
down the sink when poured the wa
ter out"
PenrOd ran amuck.
With 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 have fled from Pen
reds path at highest speed, but this
one 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 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 great circle,
with the radius of a full arm and half
q 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, 1t brought down
a glass globe from the chandelier.
Startled exclamations 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 it disappeared
through the upper section Of a win
dow, which was "down from the top"
Crimson, infuriated, Penrod turned
upon his dumfounded sister.
LOU uIlISu Iuy hC DACdbCu'
"You watch what do to your old gold
fish,"
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 a London
maker, was the hat of Ethelbert Mags-
worth Bits.
Margaret, rushing through the door
way, uttered a lamentable outcry. But
Penrod Disseminated nothing between
these hats. With mighty effort he
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