OCR Text |
Show Neighborly Hint. "People as keep 'ens," observed th lady at No. 17 Acacia terrace, "should keep 'em at 'ome. One o' these odd days, when your fowls come Bcrappin in our garden, you'll be missin' some." The lady of No. 19 sniffed the air in defiance. "If you was to feed your cat prop'ly, p'raps it wouldn't go 'untin' round for bulbs," she observed. "Then you wouldn't lay the blame on 'ens what belongs to your neighbors." A week later the lady of No.. 17 again addressed her next-door neighbor. neigh-bor. "Thanks for your 'int about treatin our cat better," she said. "Pleased you found it pay," returned return-ed No. 19. "We should never a-found out what a wonderful cat is was if it 'adn't been for you," smiled No. 17. "Since you spoke about it I made it up a couple of straw beds in the tool 'ouse and sprinkled a little barley about, and blest if that cat ain't laid two nice eggs every mornin' since." And next day there was a wire fence round the hen house at No. 19 that an elephant couldn't break through. |