till and we herd him
tell Nat Weeks that he had got his gun loded and if he herd it go of he
needent be sirprized. so you bet we dident yowl agen. so after Pewts
father and Nat Weeks had gone to bed agen we clim over the fence esy and
went of up towards Gilmans barn. Beany stumped me to go as fer as the
barn and we was going there when i thougt of the tiger and told Beany
about it. we wasent afrade but they wasent enny fun in going down to the
barn so we went back down towards the high school yard and it was prety
dark there and so we dident go down to set on the steps. bimeby it
struck eleven oh clock. ferst the town clock and jest after it the
factory bell an then we cood hear clocks striking in the houses on the
street. i tell you it made me feel loansum. we coodent see enny lites in
the houses, so we set on the steps and told stories and talked about the
fellers and the girls. Beany said he gessed he wood mary Lizzie Tole, Ed
Toles sister sum day. i bet he wont. then Beany he said when he was a
man he wood by the club stable and have all the horses he wanted to
drive, and i cood wirk for him if i dident get drunk [curiously enough,
the first two statements in this prophecy came true] like most of the
hostlers. i told him that i wasent going to wirk for ennybody for i was
going to play in the band like Bruce Brigam, Scotty Brigams brother.
bimeby we herd sum real cats yowling and it sounded sort of feerful.
Cele read us a story when we was sick with the scarlet fever about a man
whitch had a black cat and he got mad with her and cut out one eye. then
he got mad with his wife and cut her throte and stuck her up in the
chimny in the celler and pluged up the hole. bimeby the polisemen come
to find out where his wife was and they hunted evry where in the house
and stable and hen koop and evrywhere and bimeby they wanted to go into
his celler. so the man he said all rite fellers come rite down and so
the polisemen went down celler with him and he showed them all over the
celler and they looked evrywhere and coodent find ennything and jest as
they was going out they herd a feerful yowl and they stoped and lissened
and it kept on yowling in the chimny and when they took a pickax and
wanted to dig a hole in the chimny the man whitch killed his wife said
they wasent ennything in the chimny for it hadent been opened for 1
hundred years, but they cut open the chimny and what do you gess they
found. well they found his wife with h