Evening star., 1921-05-01

| tne COTDlnSS on bo1n SlGeS bl tit
street. The Italian and Greek gents
who owns 'em are already departing
hence in hurried manner. but
they've left their outfits behind. and
| right away it's made plain to me
by her actions that Emily regards
the sight as part of a general
conspiracy to feed her some peanuts
when she already has more peanuts
than what she really requires for
personal use. She reaches out for
the first peanut machine in the row.
curlS her trunk around ii and slams
it against brick wall so hard that
it Immediately begins to look some
thing like a flivver car which has
been in a severe collision and some
thing like a tin accordion that's had
hard treatment from a careless own
er. With this for a beginning, Emily
starts in to get real rough with them
roasters. For about three minutes
it's raining hot charcoal and hot
peanuts and wooden wheels and
metal cranks and sheet-iron drums
all over that part of the fair city.
| Having put the enemy's batteries
out of commission, Emily now swings
around and heads back in the oppo-
site direction with everybody giving
her plenty of room. l heard after
ward that some citizens went miles
out of their way in order to give her
room. Emily's snout is aimed straight
up as though she's craving air. and
her tail is standing straight out be-
hind. stiff as a poker except that
about every few seconds a painful
culver runs through it from the end
that's nearest Emily to the end that s
furthest away from her. Windy is
hoofing it along about fifty feet back
of her. uttering soothing remarks and
entreating her to listen to reason.
and I'm trailing Windy, but for once
Emily don't hearken none to her mas
ter's voice.
"Out Of the tail of my eye see a
fat lady start to faint, and when she
right in the middle of the faint
change her mind about it and do a
back flip into plumbers shop, the
purtiest you ever seen. l see a po-
liceman dodge out from behind
lamppost as Emily approaches. and
reach for his gun. l yells to MIN
not to shoot, but it's unnecessary ad-
Twice, because he's only chucking mis-
hardware away SOS to tighten him uI
for couple of hundred yards OF
straightaway sprinting. l see Emily
make a side-swipe with her nozzle al
a stout gent who's in the act OF CHM o.
ling a telegraph pole hand over mana
She misses the seat of his pants pS
a fraction Of an inch, ana as ne
reaches. the first cross-arm out o,
her reach, and drapes his form across
II. the reason for her sudden ami
mostly toward him is explained.
glass Jar falls out of one OF MS nil
nockets and is dashed to fragments
Ion the cruel bricks far below, anc
IFS contents is then seen to be peanut
butter.
tssT SEES these things as If in trou'
bled dream, and then, all OF
sudden. me and Emily are all alone II
, deserted city. Exceptin' for us Two
9 there amt a soul in sight nowheres
= Even Windy has mysteriously van
: tished. And now Emily, in passing
3 along, happens to look inside a trui
l store. and through the window mel
! unhappy glance rests upon Din tui
, Of peanuts. So she just presses mel
fare against the pane like Little Mary
in the nom, and at that the entire
front end of that establishment seems
to Give away in a very simultaneous
.nner and Emily reaches in through
1.-The orifices and plucks out the con-
Z tents of that there store, lncludine
> stock. fixtures and good WILL ahe
throws 'em backward over her snoui
, dor in a petulant and hurried way
e Rut takes notice that she throws
: the bin of peanuts much farther thar
the grapefruit or the pineappies oi
the glass showcases containing the
stick candy. The proprietor must o.
been down in the cellar at the mo-
y cha'd
, him FORTH too.
.srhus we continues on our way. me
, and Emily, in the midst of vast ou'
hoisterous solitude,-for while we
; can't see the inhabitants. we can hear
, l,em-until we arrive at the loot OF
. Main street, and there we penoias ene
railroad freight depot looming petore
/ us. I can tell that Emily IS "lshaui
to pass through this structure: Ihere
) amt no opening on the nigh side OF II
hut that don't hinder Emily none
I She gives one heave with ner snoui
I ders and makes a door and passes on
in and out again on tne !ar sue nS
3 the same methods: I arrives arouno
: the end of the shed just in time to see
: Ter slide down a steep grade tnrous !,
/ somebody's truck-garden ana SIN i,
. down upon her heaving nank IN IL
5 tie hollow. AS l halts upon the prov
! of the hill, she looks up at me very
renroachfui and ! can see that her
, prevalent complexion is beginning 10 70
, turn very wan and pale. Son. take IL
, from me, when a full-grown sne-pulI
gets wan, she's probaly the wannest
thing there is in the world.
, Stand back. Scandalous, sne
/, moans to me in bull-language. l
don't bear you no grudge-it was =
mistake in Judgment on the part OF
ali of us,-but stand back and give me
i room. Up till this time she says,
) Tve been po'rly: but somethlng
, seems to tell me that now I'm aoou'
: to be what you might call real III
disposed
$50. after a while. a part OF the po-
! lice force came along, stepping SLOW
and cautious, and they halts them :
: selves in the protecting shadows OF
the freight shed or what's left or IT,
,, and they beckon me to come near en-
and when i responds. they tell me m
under arrest for melting riots ano
. disturbances and desecration OF prop
: erty and various other crimes and
. misdemeanors. suggests to 'em
! that IL they're really craving to ar
+ rest anybody. they should oughter be.
: gin with Emily. but they don't fall
+ | in with the idea. They marches me
r up to the police station. looking over
: their shoulders at frequent intervals
/ | to be sure the anguished Emily ain
! coming. too, and when we get there'