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Show picking up ttie wire ragea. "and T do net think they will o up esaln either. A And they didn't, for Mra." Tabby Gray 'et tvm right. Tom i'at whs afraid o1r dos;; very much ninld. and lie gavtjlJeH hie htjflintt) rtnt then and there and left for parte unknown. 1 Him-e thst day thre hue heen no acare- l Ify of mice hi that neighborhood, and while the mice have heen cornered msnv ' times all the cats and kittens have done their share of the cornering and no one haa complained. (Copyright ll. bv the MoT lure Newa-paper Newa-paper Syndicate. New York City.) 1 a11DMBBBBeBaBaaaBBaaaaaaMBi I 1 1 The Sandman Story I FOR TONIGHT Mr. Tom Cat in' Business Mr. Tom Cat waa the best mo user for mtlee around; In fact he caught eo many mice that he got tired ef them for food, and one day It came Into hie head that he could, go Into the business of selling mice and make a good living, "Then perhaps I can have a little cream and milk once In a while lnatead of eo much of one thing." Ho Mr. (Tom Cat bought himself two' wire tea pa and put them on the end of a pole and the pole he put across hla ahtiuldera. "The very thing that .will 'display them nicely," said Tom Cat. "But fust t must oatch the mice and get them fat " Mrt Tom Cat went to, work, and he worked, so hard and fast catching mice and putting them In a cage to fatten them that soon there were no mice for any other oat for mllea around to have, and that waa. of course, Just what Mr. Tom Cat wanted. "I'll corner the market, said Tom Cat "and then they will Juat have to buy of me, and. best of all, at any price I aak." By the time Mr. Tom waa ready to start his buaineea the other cats In the i r'ienhnrhnnd Wtre ahovit starved for a I t'l.'Tii". i TsaaBaasacsaaaaar. r ni i '. ..i. ...ua I nice fat mouse, end when Tom appeared on the streeta with hla fat mice In traps for sale they paid him gladly the price he aaked. I Thla went on for a lopg time, and not a mouse did another cat around get a I chance to catch. Tom Cat kept up a thriving business and lived on cream all the time. At laat the other cats and klttena grew tired of paying euoh prieee. "He has no right fo charge ua more than thev are worth," aald Mra. Tabby Gray. "Homebody "Home-body should look Into thla and find out why we cannot catch mice for ourselves. He ia growing fat and we are growing ; thin." i Hut no dne aeemrd to be able to atop Tom from going on with hit business, and alt thy found out waa that he hunted ao ; well- he caught them all. , 1 One day while Mra. Tabby flray waa eelectlng a good fat mouse for her dinner from Mr. Tom-aha heard a dog bark In the distance and aha notloed that Mr. 1 Tom almost dropped hla pole, he looked ao scared. "He la afraid of a dog." aha though. "If he la w will break up his .business pretty quickly." As soon as be waa out of the neighborhood neighbor-hood Mrs. Tabby Umv called a meeting of all the rata and klttena and told them what ehe suspected. -"All we have to do ! la to get two or three doge to oome around here every day until we scare Mr. Tom Cat away from here. We don't care If he doea go Into bualneaa somewhere else, ; but we will be free to catch our own mice i again." I The next dav when Tom came along calling out. "Nice fat mice? Hera are i your nice fat mice.- only a dollar apiece!" i Mra. Tahhy Gray waa peeking, out from I her blinds. . . V 1 "The price of mice will drop with t , bump In a few mlnutea. my fine fellow," I aha aald, , 'or my name le not Tabby tiary.'o" "Nice fat mice! Here a where you get your nice fat mloe at a dol '' , And then Tom dropped the note and mloe and ran llckety split for the nearest fence. s. I "I thought the price would fell. aald ' Tabby Gray, coming out of her houee and ' i . |
