Show I I miMY ln DRIVES ES cT BL PUSSY OUT Dy By Thornton W Burgess Wisdom may be born of ot fear tear I II hope ope I mako make my meaning clear Old Old Mother Nature The visits of the tho Skunk family to Farmer Fanner Browns Brown's house were not enjoyed by all who lived ed up thre No Indeed Bowser Dowser the Hound didn't approve at all but Bowser took great care to vole vole his Ills his disapproval al at a n distance This Jimmy Jimmy- Skunk and his Ills family didn't mind at all nil They were quito quite willIng that Bowser should bark barl himself sick If it he wanted to toso so long lon r as aa he h didn't venture venturo too near There Thero was another who dl didn't nt approve o at all This was Black Pussy the Cat Black Pus Pus- Pussy's Pus sr's sy's eya noso nose was quite quit out ut of or joint as the saying is These visits to Farmer Drowns Browns house had begun in the summer when Jimmy was wandering about Mother Brown had begun feeding him him at the doorstep There is nothing stupid about Jimmy It didn't take him any anytime anytime I time at all to learn that just about dusk he h was pretty sure I to find a 0 plate plato of o food tood waiting for him beside be the doorstep So Soho Soho ho he formed the habit or of o coming comin regularly Later he brought Mrs Jimmy and the tho children up there One night just to see what Jimmy and amI his family would do Mother Drown Brown set the tb food inside the back shed leavIng leavine the tha outer door open She wondered if It they would venture inside and she sho kept watch from the window She saw Jim Jim- Jimmy Jimmy Jim Jimmy my lead the family up to the doorstep There was no food rood there for tor them Apparently they dIdn't know what to make mako of or It it They put their heads together Mrs Brown watching them gues guessed ed that Jimmy told the others other to walt wait while he ho looked around She saw him stretch hi his head toward the open door and sniff Then calmly and as It If he was accustomed accustomed tomed to It it Jimmy walked right Into the shed In ht a moment he carne camo backing out Not until ho r Sho ho sn A saw saw- saw Jimmy mid ami hl Ills his family across the yard arll rI reached the th threshold did he ht turn turnaround turnaround turnaround around In hIs mouth was a chicken bone At sIght of or this Mrs Jimmy promptly went Into the shed ot Of course this was enough for tor the children It If father tather and mother were not afraid there ther could beno be beno no reason tor for them to be afraid atraill i So each went in to get a bite and andI I each backed out In just the same sarno way as Jimmy and Mrs Mr JImmy had It was very ery tunny funny to see them em I INow Now all this time Black PUSSY had been In that shed and had seen sen what was ivas going on Black Pussy didn't approve o at lit all Sh She thought that food tood had been put pot there thero for tor her ber for tor in that she shed she line was accustomed to being fed So Soshe Soshe Soshe she had been helping helping- herself when Jimmy Skunk walked In- In Inside inside in inside side At first glance fiance Black Pussy thought It was another cat Other people have hav made that mistake when lIne unexpectedly meeting Jim Jim- Jimmy Jimmy Jimmy my or one of or his family Black PusSy pulled back her lips III's and growled deep In her Ier throat She Sho lashed her tail tall She was just justI I about to sprIng sprint on this stranger who was seemingly payIng no nt- nt at attention to her ber when for far the first time she sir noticed tho bIg bit plumy tall No o cat ever had a n tall tail like that that Tho The growl crowl died in Black I Pussy's throat A wild look or of fright chased the anger ancer out or of oher her eyes eyell Like a a flash lash she the turned and scrambled up to the top or of ortho tho woodpile There she crouched In the farthest corner orner and she took pains loins to make malte no sound Jot at atall atall all She Sho was a scared cat was Black Pussy Black Pussy remained Up Ui there the on the wood pile pil until long after arter Jimmy and his family had re- re retire retired r tire tired 11 When hen she ho did venture down her hair was standing on end and she sh was I all I ready teady to run at tho the least little noise You should have seen how very very carefully she peeked pecked out the tho door Ioor No Skunks were in sight Black Pussy raced over to the barn Sh She felt site sate there The next evening just at d Black Pussy was sitting on the doorstep She Sho saw Jimmy and Isis family coming across the heading straight to toward to- to toward toward ward where she h was sitting With With- Without Without out thinkIng Black mack Pussy turned and ran Indoors Just as hap hap- happened happened hap happened the night before Jimmy an and l his family walked right In InIn inin In the tho most unconcerned manner and nd once more moro Black Pussy lussy had hada hada a great fright After Arter that noth nothing fog ing would Induce Black Pussy to cat In that shed shed or to stay there thereat thereat thereat at all She Sh didn't Intend to take any chances All her life lite she had been accustomed to eating there and to spendIng considerable time there But Dut now sho tho was driven |