Show The San Sandman Story fOR TONIGHT Part Part I. I was a very cry slick looking puss She was not a kitten nor yet a very old cat she was just justa a wen well fed middle aged puss lived In a house where they treated her very ver kindly and fed her heron heron on many nice cream things sometimes someI some some- times limes but always s 's milk and a bit of I chicken and fish too were no luxuries lux- lux UlI uries s to Miss But for tor all her well filled s saucers sometimes longed for a nice plump mouse but a mouse had not been seen around the house In m manx n na a day and longed for this dainty without a hope of getting It To be SUrf sure she might have gon gone outside th the house and hunted but I that would have been beneath the dignity dig dig- lg-I lg ot of such a proper puss as Then one day something happened I which nearly tumbled her off where she sat In the sun I Right across the floor ran a mouse At first was too loo surprised to jump down and when she recovered she saw that the mouse was a very very I II skinny little creature and looked as If I he had not eaten a good meal for a along along long time let the mouse run a away ay but she noticed where It ran So later she took a peep behind the draperies of the big window and sure enough there was a hole In the wall hidden from sight by folds of the curtains began to think She did want a nice mouse but she did not care for thin ones If she could only get It fattened up a bit she was sure she she would enjoy it it for a bet een meal lunch i That very afternoon she found herself herI her her- I self quite alone In the house so Tab Tab- igal sat herself hers lf down in the room I where she had seen the mouse and waited Pretty soon she saw the mouse run along close to the wall and when it was far enough away from the hole she sho spoke to It You look half fed she said not moving from where she f sat at The poor little mou mouse was frightened frightened fright fright- ened of course and huddled against the tho wall but made no attempt attempt at- at tempt to move and spoke again I I am surprised that you OU should be beso beso so thin when there is sO much food right In this house Vh why look at me I am fat and well fed and I never think of looking anywhere but In my dish for food This was of course a very nice way of telling little mouse that she never neer hunted mice so he took courage and told that he was one of a large family who had just come to live in the wall of the house and they had not yet found the pantry Now was a very ery tidy tid puss as you rou may have guessed as asell well ell asvery as aser er very proper She never brought her food Into the sitting room but now she thought of a way she might fatten fatten fat fat- ten up un little mouse and she decided to break to break away from her he regular way of living for a time at least I think I Could help you ou she said to little mouse it if you would be satisfied satisfied sat sat- to pick up crumbs Little mouse was very glad to pick pickup I up anything to eat and so 50 told him that every da day she would bring a piece of bread bre d or cookie behind behind be- be hind the and that she would leave the crumbs anyway and perhaps perhaps per per- haps more Tomorrow I will tell you how little mouse grew grev plump how he was saved after all from becoming a lunch for Continued tomorrow Copyright 1919 b by McClure Newspaper Newspaper News News- paper Syndicate New York City |