The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, December 17, 1884, Page 8

CAT AND THE BOOTJACK. W THE Burdette on the Defi Leading Ameri 9g w tongues at heen the | at J co I cs ae tra s | cations asa hin ! a | are secured hi | i et was hoortjack fired out of ter t dow by the hand of n that | eto hav into the hand = ¢ | Hence, with th cay I | c jack the cat has come on top. | v.” ave numerous and accurate to-day | Was present, Your argument | and the pc ta premi- | Several days es | Colonel Oh, simple-nunded man? Oh,} “What busi feeble oae, slow to believe anything | have with vou the save that which is palpably incredi “Had bi funny “And you ble, you have been fed upon The American bumorist.’’ whose name is lives in the dim traditions of the.past} papers. “leading Legion, But It ya?” “We have business is con- the boot- cat ads 30 far as the cerned. Her jack in the days of 1's glorious pre- ron, in the far-away times ot Doe- his about to decide sticks, and as he stories of the cats ot to-day he brings in the unerring bootjack. He de The “leading Ameri ** does not keep abreast weaves own If your ph The yeu ceives you. be allowed can humorist of the times, as does the dime-novel writer, When the writes a romance of the plains to-| dime novelist cowboy scout He knows that or day, he arms a Wi the squirrel mf with hester. le of Leatherstocking, small ram- with its long wooden stock, bore, bullet patches, hickory rod and powder horn, is a thing of the past. The hymorist, however, tries to drag that dead past into the life to-day, writes of cats, he light and ot when he and so decieves | creat effo s Lens Egypt. He says that Now, «to wears ‘“‘le= boots”’ “in | &, see his sister on the cities to-day? Not one man in} dies. O£ course several. Of what use then, are} deal red ¢! bootjacks*? Obviously, ot no hy icoffee-and othér sacl They are discarded. They are no} cies. one cannot be surp longer an article of household furni- | should wish to emb: ture. remain. and hang up on the parlor wall, Consequently the cats have theirown | swect way, and when a man would} there is no death-dealing dootjack to fire atat. We a wear shocs these days, inthe cities. And’) tt isin the cities that the great cry | } turn mail. slay one They are antiques to decorate | \ | { { | for the suppression of the cat is heard. In the smaller towns of th West and South, where “leg boots” pees eae ae “one aaeaec a are still worn, the bootiack floursh- | pated a be es and the suddned cat behaves him- | selt. But where there are ne boot-! jacks the catsetuff the ballot boxes | and control the returns. “I'm eati “WE show American tradi Once more, to leading hu- tondiy the morist’’ clings to the past, observe in his funny “N aw; m **What "Cause away.”” ‘Hu cles on cats how « their assembling Now tell me. ir many humorous paper “wood how m sheds’ any li insured i **OF course. He is in good hez upon Poledo, O. iw nt eg av jater te Why ag elieve he will die sudden- an eminent f¢ die suddenly?” SOIR St Im. You isu such What makes you think that he to be allow ace t A Better Thing. What's that@ * he is to threaten to c and the red 4 I? shouldn’t pessibilities will ine, Colonel. n0ws, all right. ted that settle up Judge | and 2 occul WrETHOU! a THE MOST S( Pele, THE MOst EGON \ BASE- BURNING V 2 Sg 100,000 BUShiki:.S RN Cf! EO Leen, Chilis } Cos. Elevator, NRAR DEPOT. community that ‘we now We desire are to say to the tarnir prepared to rt tity. 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