Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-06-11

in an old squirrel cage and two little
pigeons Matched. Those two little
pigeons had just as bad luck as Miss
Lucy did. They both died. And I
would give anyone five hundred
guesses as to what killed them, and
I will just bet that not one person
would guess the correct answer
1 have seen pet squirrels in their
cages and they seem to have good
time running around the little wire
barrel made for them to run in, but
think they had much rather be run
ming up and down, and jumping from
tree to tree.
Every time go by Robert Heaters
place, his green parrot positively re-
fuses to talk to me. Nearly twenty
years ago several of us went over in
to Virginia to our cousins home and
spent several days. / was told after
left that for some time their parrot
would call, moses, Moses" No, L
didn't stay several days, but the 9TH
crs did. 1 had to come back to work.
But l never had much better time
in my whole life than on that short
visit. 1 had never been there before
and they were sure glad to see all of
US
l have heard that pet crows can
be taught to talk, but have never
seen one that could. A travelling man
had a pet beaver once and came
through town selling some kind of
patent medicine. 1 have seen folks
bring pet coons to town. And lots of
little boys carry flying squirrels
around in their pockets. To see them
fly is a much prettier sight than to
see any other kind of flying animal
in the world
I have never told anyone that I
wanted bear for pet, nor a poodle
dog either On the stage years ago I
saw some tame deer act in vaude-
vile and it was q fine act. But the
pigs act in the circus is not near as
good as the greyhounds jumping.
+ About thirty years ago an older
brother of mine had a lot of pet rab-
bits, they were spotted, speckled, and
vari-colOred. They made fine pets
For a coup.e of years we kept a Flor
ida alligator which we called "Orange
Blossom" He grew to the enormous
.ength of about fourteen inches and
] then died a year or more ago. AT
| Christmas when that big snow was on
I the ground we went out home for
j night. More snow fell and we stayed
several days. When we got home poor
| little Orange Blossom had frozen to
death, so we thought. It turned out
| that he had only hibernated, and as
soon as he got warmed up good he
came to-" But that was after we
| had sent him out to Mr. Knott, the
taxidermist, for him to stuff. When
Mr. Knott opened the box, then
| Orange Blossom opened his mouth
ready to swallow Mr.. Knott. So the
a .ligator lived another year and then
had a running fit and died Then
| there was weeping, and wailing, and
moaning amongst the Jones children.
| There was a nest of baby kittens
at home in the horse trough. One of
| them was yellow and 1 claimed it for
mine. It fell out in the stall and the
horse stepped on it and killed it.
So if you have pet do not think
| too much of it. Then if it dies YOU
won't be SO broken-hearted. But of
course you could not tell a child that,
, for when a child loves pet, he usu-
ally loves all, or none.
When one of my older brothers was
a. little boy, my mother set a hen on
some duck eggs for the boys to have
for pets. Just day or so before time
for them to hatch, he was pulling
up against the box trying to look
into the nest The box was nailed on
to the outside of the chicken house
He pulled too hard and the nest, hen
box, duck eggs, and all fell down.
and that was the last of those ducks
Speaking of hens on a nest wond