How can it, aint you got your cap
on? sed Puds, and I sed. It mite pull
my cap off and then tangle itself up.
Aw, afraid of a bat. afraid of a bat,
se-'a Puds, and I sed, Well wy dont
you go in and get it if youre so won
derful? I would if I had a cap on, sed Puds,
and I sed, All rite, heers my cap, now
lets see. you.
Wich Puds put on my cap with a
brave ixpression and went in and
opened the -parier door and' quick shut
it agen, saying, G, It sounds like about
3 bats, it aint eny credit g-oing in wen
youre outnumbered.
Wich Jest then Top came down
stairs and started to go in the parier
with a ixpres?ion. as if he was hunting
for sum thing, me saying, Be carefill,
pop, theres bats in there.
All rite, 111 try not to frighten them,
sed pop. And' ho went and fixed the
window shade to stop it flopping
agenst the window, being wa.t made
the noise, and then he came out hold
ing his pipe in his hand with a ix
pression as if ho had found sumthing
and went upstairs, saying, The ferst
place I put a thing is the last place I
find it.
Im, going in weather fllieres emy
ibats in there or not. I sed.
So am I, sed Puds. And we wawked
in one door and out tho other is calm
as if we dident think enythlng of it,
wich we dident.
NEW OFFICERS OF
ORPHAN ASYLUM
President of the Bridgeport Pro
testant Orphan Asylum association
for the ensuing year will be Miss
Louis Warren, daughter of Col. T. B.
