| Show A mouse la in ifer her blat one day this week a lady went to a fourth street store to make some pur purchases chaseL she engaged a young clerk in conversation concerning various articles while talking to het hei the salesman chanced to look up at cherhat her hat it moved slightly thence then ho looked again and again the feminine headgear was perceived to bo in mo tion the young man turned pale and his tongue did cleave to the root roof of his mouth like ono one suffering with nightmare he wanted to scream but could not all the time the ladys lat kept moving in a peculiar way the young man kept his gaze on the hat for boie reason unknown to himself ho he could not do oth otherwise erwis presently he be saw ono side of th tah hat raise up then a pair of bright eyes peered out the next instant out from under the hat jumped a mouse it landed on the palo pale young clerks shoulder and he ran out into tho the street yelling like a comanche ugh 1 what was that screamed creamed fc the lady it was a mouse and he jumped out of your hat answered the pale young clerk from between his chattering teeth and so it was the lady had taken up her hat put it on and wore it to the store on tva th e way oy she said she fell Com something ething moving in her hat but thought it was the breeze moving in in her hair she was greatly y surprise at the developments but nut se be frightened as the pale young clerk santa t rota rosa republican |
