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Show FOE LITTLE FOLKS. MR. GREY AND MR. BROWN. The Keason Why They Don't Now Live In the Same House. Explained. Mr. Thomas Grey was an old cat, who lived in a lonely little house at the turn of the road. Mr. Brown was a nimble little mouse, who lived in the basement without paying pay-ing any rent, and who got his meals by stealing from Mr. Grey's pantry when Mr. Grey was not at home. One day Mr. Grey cau j home sooner than Mr. Brown expected and almost caught him as he was making for the knotholo which he called his "private entrance" to tho basement Mr. Grey smacked his lips and stroked his mustache, mus-tache, for he dearly loved a fat and tender ten-der mouse. "Good morning," ho said politely "Have you luuched?" "Oh, dear, no I" said Mr. Erown. "I j cave had nothing to eaS these three days past, and my sides are so thin that I havo to button my coat tight so that my ribs will stay together. " "Indeed I" said Mr. Grey in a disappointed disap-pointed tone, for a thin mouse is poor faro. "And how does that hrtppeu?" "Well, when a man has a wife and six children, " eaid the mouse, "and has j to feed. them all, there is not much left for him. Thero is my wifo now," he went on in a complaining voico, "just a3 fat as butter. You'd think she'd help forage, now, wouldn't you? Well, she wont. Sho lets me do it all, and she must seo the condition I am in. And each one of those boys is twice as big as I am, just from overfeeding. " Mr. Grey's eyes shone. "I should like to see i;hem. The? must bo handsome children, " he said "Would you?" said Mr. Brows "Shall I go fetch them? They never stit a step unless 1 make them. " "Do so, Air. Brown; by all means do so. I shall bo pleased and proud romeet all of your family all, Mr. Brown, if you please," for the old cat thought, "Seven fat mice are better than one thin ono any day. " So Mr. Brown popped clown the knot hole, and Mr. Grey drew his chair up, all ready to pounce upon tho fat mice But he waited in vain. Then Mr. Brown, who had no wife nor a chick nor child in tho world, but vis it yruy illlU guuu iui nuimiig cuu bachelor, put a sign up in the basement: base-ment: "To Let. Desirable rooms for a single gentleman," a -id went to live in a corn crib with somo other bachelor mice like himself. Often in tho evening he would climb up and look in tho window win-dow at tho old cat, sitting patiently by tho hole, waiting,, waiting for the seven fat mice. Then ho would laugh . and laugh until ho nearly tumbled off the wiudow sill. Etheldred B. Barry in Buffalo News. Few persons know that Huntingdon, Pa., wa.i named in honor of the Countess of Huntingdon, an eighteenth century great lady who did much for tho University Uni-versity of Pennsylvania. Trovost William Wil-liam Smith of tho university founded the little city in 17 77 and gratefully honored tho university's patrou in naming nam-ing the new settlement. Philadelphia Inquirer. w-' |
