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@ | - By RACHEL WESTON 'name is Montagu, but everyone he called it after his school in amy tail up in the air, as proud as therefore I knew it must be some- 'At the word "Amen" J would sit 'me a piece of candy and never 'looking for it. laundry basket under the kitchen FEBRUARY 20th, 1936 , ' SSE RT Fe ERE MET NT a ae Na ---- ee 7 a -- iy i a cb Se ee THE HALE eeu RIAN a . MONTY | a np o _ (Owner of Monty) | Se ------------ * I AM a cocker spaniel and my get him out, so I barked and cried with large astonished eyes and and the Missus came down to see what the row was about. She'the cat that has been stealing all turned the cat out and put me in, and after that as I grew bigger, and found him in my basket, I just jumped on top of him and he he has been introduced to me as had to get out or be very uncom-' Joe." And he bowed to him very gravely. fortable. There were six of us in the family besides the French-Cana- was the work of the Boss to send them on to the place where all good and young kittens go. He was very kind when he did that deadly deed and made the water in the pail lukewarm, 20 that the shock would not be so great. Then it was the work of the garden boy to perform the Joe was a polygamist and was last rites, while I stood by as chief forever getting into fights and "to see that all was well done. said, 'Is that Joe? Why that is my chickens! I was going to shoot him if I found him there again, but I cannot do so now as calls me Monty for short. When! dian girl and the boy who helped came home with his ears and nose | We did that four times a year, I was about six weeks old I,was in the garden--we were the Boss, all scratched and bitten, so that ey you see it was a necessary brought to a small town called/the Missus, two. dogs and two) he looked a sight. jevil, as it would have been unwise Haileybury in Northern Ontario. It was founded by Mr. Farr and England. The lady to whom I was given did not understand babies; when cats. The other dog was a beautiful black Pomeranian called Tsetse,| after some obnoxious and pesti-| had to be pu tto sleep. ferous fly in South Africa. He came to us when I was about 'night came she put me down the|eight years old. and alas! after|the Missus sitting down, he One Sunday morning after a to fill the town with Lulu's off- Saturday night spree. he came spring--there were so many of home so badly clawed that he them. He had; One of the kittens after he left only one parlor trick. When he us climbed a telegraph pole and came into the room and found when he was up, he could not get down and cried so pitifully that cellar and did not even give mea) that life was never the same for| would jump on her lap and_ put his mistress took compassion on drink of warm milk. Of course Ime again. The old blowhard! Ah) his head under her arm and she } kept her awake all night by cry- ing. What else did she expect?|must confess he was(a lovely la lala la" and he would lie quite me! I guess 1 was jealous! I! him and sent for a man with big spikes on his boots to get it down. It cost her $5. Do you know that would pat him and sing "La lala IT wanted my mother or at least creature--long pitch black hair | still and when she stopped he a cat can climb up and not down? a substitute. Some people are so tiny legs like a deer and when he) poked out his head as much as to Very silly, I call it! I cannot ignorant about the ways of the| walked the street, he was just the say, "More Please." | climb at all, but I know if I could » young. , | The next day she was pretty, sick and tired of me and when, she saw a couple of her friends) passing, she called out 'to them And he would bite hard, too,.and|ing kitten and they interested me and wanted to know if they would draw blood. But he was so small) tremendously. 1 would sit for the like to have a pup. They looked that that was his only protection.| longest time with my chin on her at each other for a moment and Now, Tsetse did not like candy at|hed-box and ponder and wonder said in one accord, "There is no-|all; occasionally he would conde-| and. stare and gaze, longing thine we would like better than'scend to eat an after-dinner mint.) grab one of them, but I knew I |no other was good enough for! dared not grab as I was not al-| right away quick. If you want to a pup, especially a spaniel." As I looked at my new owners | I knew I was in the hands of those who liked and understood dogs. He put me in his big over-| coat pocket with only my head sticking out and I was as good as' gold all the way home. From that time on.they became to me the| Boss and the Missus. "No such nonsense," said she, "as Mother, and Daddy--I will not be Mother to.a dog,--but no mother could have been nicer to a child than she was to me. | I loved the Boss but I adored the Missus. I liad to obey him, but with her I did more or less as, I pleased and I knew that before I had been there many weeks. They taught me many tricks and I was very proud of myself and loved to show off. I could, get the boss his rubbers, say my) _ prayers, shut the door, die for my) ntry and carry home the mail metimes quite big parcels--| the better, for then I ors were admir~ Y em say, "Do look > 41 walked along with a cuffy. JI do not know what a cuffy is, but the Boss said soand thing very nice. .To say my prayers I sat up with my chin on the Missus' knee and she would say: "Please give} ~ Monty a piece of candy. Amen." up straight and she would give did she fail me. I was very fond of candy and cake, and as soon as those words were mentioned I' was all agog dear friend, Miss Candy, and when she was visiting us I was in a stew for that candy when her name was mentioned. I was a nervous wreck by the time she left. And do you know that, cle- ver as I was, I was quite a big dog before I understood the dif- ference? The first night I was in my new home I was fed and put to bed on a soft cushion in the table. Unfortunately I got out one night and the white cat jump- ed in and I did not know how to 'severe with him before he stop- We had a very|' most beautiful thing that you had| ever laid your eyes on. But he was very bad tempered and would} as soon bite you as look at you.| him. . Chocolates he despised, soT) always got the one he had sniffed} at. te go The white cat was Joe, short} for Josephus. Joe was a chicken thief, but he never took our chic- kens, although we had a good many and the big ones had names too. There was Solomon and his wives--Sarah, Jane and Maria and many others. I wish I had time to tell you about our chic- kens, as some of them were very interesting and not as stupid as some people would have you be- lieve. : Joe would take the next-door chickens and put them ours.. The Missus had to be very ped that trick. Even after he was old he stole chickens. One night a friend was calling among} and Joe cried at the door to be let in, so the Missus said, "Lornie please let Joe in." He did and in walked Joe. Lornie looked at him! I liked him so climb up I certainly would be able 'to climb down after IT had climbed up. Poor old Joe! well. The mother cat was Lulu, short for Louise. She was always: hav-' Pe kk x I had very silky ears and they got into my, food and became sticky and the Missus conceived the idea of tying them back with a clothes pin, but I screamed so hard that she 'had to take it off to lowed to grab chickens. Lulu ral know how much a clothes pin can was always faithful to Joe and at hurt, try one on the end of your times he would get into the box nose. with the kittens and look so 7 adler ation feck. chich : y big : sheepish if someone saw him) _ there. * All the kittens found a watery grave save one, and that was kept for the benefit of the mother, and when she was tired of it, a good home was found for it. I was glad when that last kit- ten left, as it spent most of its waking hours playing with my ears that bored me to death. but} I had to be patient with it as it Com- A cold is an internal infection. was one of the family and we mon sense dictites you treat it as such. were taught to be kind to each Phere is: nothing 8 than Grove's other. I never chased our cats but I had an insane desire to do so when I saw a strange one. I never caught one, however, as they say no dog can catch a cat. if the latter has one yard start. I am so glad T neyer did as [ might have hurt it. © After they were a few days old. before their eyes were open. it Grove's at your nearest druggist. They're in a white seemed to be a mark of beauty, as they were shown with great pride. In winter it was very easy to keep those big feet clean, as all the world was white with snow and there was not even a little muddy puddle to get them dirty. In Spring and Fall when there was mud everywhere, | got into troublé nearly every day. Theer was a fuss every time I came into the house--that French Canadian girl always scolded me. The girl I knew best was Laura --the others were Candide, Ozil- da, Yvonne, Vitaline, Stella-Ma- ria--pretty names like that. I liked Laura, but she did not speak a word of English and I understand very little French, we were always at cross purposes. The farmers from the Quebec (Continued on Page 7) A QUIET, WELL CO CONVENIENT, MO NO, HIGHER we . ROOM HOTEL--85 WITH BATH. 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