White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1918-01-06
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q bottle on your"
"Ohl" Margaret laughed relieved.
There was a bottle on my dressing
table. and noticed your nam pasted
on 1t; but I don't think there was any
thing inside except water"
Penrod jumped up and down. "What
did you do with lit" he reared.
II gave 1t to Katie. and told her to
ask you II you wanted Ii, 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 shaker"
"Oh, Lord" walled Katie. clutching
at her heart.
"What'd you do with my SNEAKER
"What did l what?"
"In a bottle !" he beloved. MAR
garet gave you my bottle with my
sna-a-ake in It'll l want my snakef"
"There wasn't any snake In 1t" said
Katie. "There wasn't nothin' In it
Miss Marg'rut says the bottle had your
name on 1t, and I should ask you did
and she says she wants 1t to put
some strip In 1t, and I wouldn't let her
have it till / asked you. and you come
In, and / started to ask you what fer
you wanted 1t, and you says Cat fur
to make kitten britches WITH and
Uonf on nnotairc and CO.
'Where is itf" shouted Penrod
hoarsely; and eyen In this agony of
suspense marked that the clock stood
at 20 minutes of IL. what did you
do with my shaker"
81 never saw no snake. Do you
think I'd "a touched 1t IL there'd "a
been any Sn-"
'Where's m bottle7" demanded the
frenzied boy.
"Here," said Katie. disengaging the
empty bottle from the towel with
which she was drying 1t. "You didn't
seem to care 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. and went
down the sink when l poured the wa
ter out"
Penrod ran amuek.
With a maniacal yell ne 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
rods path at highest speed. but this
one came running. to him, hopefully. II
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 lido
poured down the kitchen sink, tn
sight Of another persons pet-safe
pampered, and wearing a pink ribbon
was merely crazing. With a gla'
cry, Penrod plunged to meet the ad
vance of the young cat. who turned to-
late, but precisely In time to leave hi
extended tail In the feverish clutch o.
the maddened boy.
Once, twice, thrice. Penrod swung
that electrified cat In a great circle
with the radius of a full arm and hall
a tail. The cat swept the air, shrek
ing irq onceivably with horror, and al
the Top of Its third orbit went sc
hir,., and so heartily. 1t brought dowr
a glass globe from the chandelier.
Startled ordinations 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 hurting
hand, mount upward and upward upor
invisible currents till 1t disappeared
through the upper section of a win
dow, which was "down from the top
Crimson. Infatuated. Penrod turned
upon his d~umfounded sister.
"You ruined my snake !" he bleated
"You watch what I do to your old GOLD
fish !"
lie udEteu Out VI ucI uctnihihS III
gers. and though she pursued. and
Robert williams pursued. and Ethel
bert Magsworth Bits pursued, he hat
seized upon the bowl of gold fish and
was out In the hall with II before the
hand of girl-could be lait
upon him.
On the hall table reposed two straw
hats; one was Roberts; the other
which bore the mark of q Londor
maker, was the hat of Ethelbert Mays
worth Bits.
Margaret, rushing through the door
way, uttered a lamentable outcry. But
Penrod Disseminated nothing between
these hats. With q mighty effort hi
heaved the bowl Of gold fish upside
down and poured water and fish al
equally al he could into the two hats
Then he threw the empty bowl bold
ly into the stomach of Ethelbert Mays