| Show THE WORLD OF THE JUVENILES Stories and Anecdotes for ChildrenSome Bright and Lively Sayings of the Youngsters The Grewsome Girl Vain Little Tots Turned into Toadstools A Very Funny ParrotHappy Thoughts Other Amusing Notes MASSACHD sotts gentleman say the Youths Companion has a large dog a cross between an English f Eng-lish mastiff and a > StBernardwhiob i is very fond of killing cats Indeed I Ulti r Ii 01 In-deed it is practically jillW 1 practi-cally impossible to keep a cat at the stable so fond is Karl of destroying them He has been whipped and chained up but though in general he is wellbehaved he cannot in this respect bo brought to reason Whenever Karl kills a cat which happens hap-pens every week or two tho groom is in the habit of digging a grave and then making the dog bring the body of poor puss to the pot Karl takes the body of his victim to the place which has now become quite a populous cemetery and whilo the grave is being dug be lies beside it licking the cat all over as If preparing her for burial When the grave is ready he invariably gives puss a vigorous nip on the spine as if to make sure that she is really finished and then taking her by the back of the neck ho gravely drops her into the holo prepared for her When all this is over he follows the groom to the stable to be whipped Ho knows what is coming and evidently accepts ac-cepts it as a necessary part of the process of killing a cat but it does not in the least prevent him from disposing of the next pusey which is brought to the stables The Grewnome Girl She was a real nice little girl Xieh that hung in one long cue cl rji And see was mosk as meek could bo But when one day she came to me And said I done it for I did Down from my nose my glasses slid 1 opened very wide my eyes I did this to express surprise And said in a voice that grevrsomo grow This will not do I She often folded in her lap Her hand and like a saint she seemed She sat for hours and hours that way But when one time I heard her say I seen It when she should have said I saw It I just shook my head Took my galoshes from the shelf And In the rain walked by myself Remarking Shes not what she seemed fe8d 8d dreamed dreamed |
