Show AWFUL I at s at t t the e at tern Lem em emBrown Brown Wife Went sot Through Was as an and as a Result They Was as Separated for or a Spell Spell Spell- Sickening attic er s Below Mr and Mrs rs' rs Lem Brown Bro n to t Q of our most host citizens citizen and best known residents residents have jut just passed d through a experience which they will remember with re regret ret and loathing f as long as they live and which the they hope will never happen to th them m again dUring their born days Mi Mrs Mn a. a Brown says the she ho hopes s that if what vh t b happened ppe ed to them hem has to to happen again again it will WIn be t to else I Iwho who ts is more deserving ing of calamity call and i misfortune than she and Lem Iem is is she she says she dont don't know what whit tJi they y could of did to have sich Bich a thing visited upon em Last Wednesday ev g just about dark Mrs Brown had to lo go down c cellar nar for something or uther and sh she noticed back in the gloom of one corner cornier cor- cor cor corner nier ner a cat an and being of cats Mrs Brown said to herself she would have I tem Lem put the intruder outer the I a cellar when he returned home Then she went upstairs and an forgot for ot all a about bout out it until along about bedtime sh she happened to think about out that cat in the cellar so soshe soshe sh she asked Lem to go down cellar and put it out Lent Lem who was tired and sleepy sl was for it off until the next morning He said the cat wouldn't do no harm barm in the cellar and might as ru aswell well stay there over oyer night but Mr Mrs Brown wouldn't hear of this and be being being being be- be ing as Lem Lern generally do does s' s shat what hat his wife orders he started down do cellar cenar Mrs r Brown told told him he had better light a a. candle but Lem tern said he guessed enu moonlight would filter through the c cellar winders so he could see what he was S doing When hen Lem Iem got do down n cellar he opened the back cellar door and an begun to paw around for the cat Finally he got a glimpse of oJ it over in in a a. a dark corner and being as he was was pretty pretty mad he had to bother with it at all he hort he would take his his' spite out on it as you might say sav so he sa says s Git here you jou ou pesky brute J I and ana with ith that he kicked at the cat but missed the cat and hit the cellar wall nearly spraining ir ng his ankle but bu before he could kick again something s happened and with a of horror and contempt contempt con ton tempt Lem staggered up the cellar st stairs l rs and gasped out Its a 3 skunk and when Mrs Brown Bron got a whiff of Lem she held her ner nose and screamed scream a for him to go the house this minute and md sta stay out u until til he got aired off Lem he went outbid out set down on on the front piazZa piazza steps and held his head in his his' h hands hands' and jest j est set there groaning as sick as 35 a dog Mrs Brown she closed dosed the cellar door and after she had sobbed and cried awhile to think that such uch a thing as that should happen in her house she went to the front door to to- see what had become of Lem Lern and when she saw aw him setting settin there on on the front piazza steps and once more detected the odor which clustered about him she ordered him offen often the premises premise Poor Poor- Lem tern he went out to the barn and slept in the hay mow all night and the next momin mornin Mrs Brown took out an old suit of clothes and left leff em outside outside out out- si side c tho the barn so so Lem Lent changed costumes in the barn got a 3 shovel l and buried the clothes he h had d on when he be encountered en en- n. n countered what he was a comman cornman com common corn com man mon house c cat t in the cellar Meanwhile the skunk still held the fort Mrs Brown told Lem tem if he had a spark of manhood manhood manhood man man- hood left in him he would get that skunk oaten the cellar but Lem said he didn't have a spark of manhood left or any or else and so so far as he was concerned he felt so cussed mean and disgraced he didn't care whether he lived or died Lem Ienn he hun hung around the barn all d day y while Mrs Brown went and hunted up upS S Seth th Dewberry our heroic town constable constable constable con con- i stable and told Seth she wanted him to eject that skunk from her cellar cenar but Seth said lid that if it was a desperate criminal he would do it but as for a skunk it was out n his altogether The next night to Mrs Browns Brown's great joy the skunk departed of its own accord through the same winder whence it come and while the thedor theodor theodor odor dor which it left b behind hind will win linger about the premises premises' for some lame time tune to come there is some hion in m 1 knowing that the animal has departed As for Lem he gets mad and flies off the handle every time the skunk incident incident incident inci inci- dent Js is |