Show A blouse la in ifer her ilat hat one day this week a lady went to fourth street store to make some purchases she engaged a young youn g clerk rk in conversation concerning aa various articles while talking to her the salesman chanced to look up at her hat it moved slightly then he looked again and again the feminine headgear was perceived to be in motion the young man turned pale and his tongue did cleave to tho roof of his mouth like one suffering with nightmare he wanted to scream but could abot all the time the ladys at kept moving in a peculiar way the young man kept his gaze on the hat for st me icae reason unknown ta himself ho he could not do otherwise presently he saw ono one side of thu hat raise rai up then a pair of sharr bright eyes peered out the next instant out from under the hat jumped a mouse it landed on the fhe pale young clerks shoulder and he ran out into the street yelling like a comanche ugh 1 what was that screamed reamed Bc the lady it was a mouse and lie be jumped out of your hat answered the pale young clerk from between his chatherin chattering teeth and sd it w was the lady had taken up lier her hat put it on and wore it to the tore on the way she said she felt some something Lhing moving in he her hat but thought it was the breeze moving in in her hair she was greatly surprised at the developments but not so sa frightened as the pale young cheru cl erk annta bosa republican |