Central High School - Almanac Yearbook (Toledo, OH)

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not on speaking terms with the head cook's pet rooster. On the passenger decks what he did not do was the unknown part of the question. Meanwhile his benefactress was taking life seriously in her QLXMH . A- - . .. in Y ' i i' l kd Lim .L R iff-H+ ' liiluli iii i ' viii-4 'ie 4 si , . f tw X X . 1 X! ,f 4 0 asf A 'fx xf ' v. 1 y XX it t 1 fx stateroom, and did not appear until the last day of the voyage. Tom, who was only sick the first part of the ntime, spent the last three days in amusing Alice and in shortening every so often the chain he got from the 'captain for Tipsey. India's coral strand was finally reached, and they disembarked at Bombay, with no idea Where to go next. As to this last, they- did not care for themselves, but they wished to ind a a safe place to stow ' ' Ewi- - '- 1 Tipsey and the trunk Mr. and Mrs. T. W. were waving a last fare- well tothe chimneys of Liverpool. when they did not Want them.l For the trunk this was easy enough, but as monkeys were by no means a rare article in the country, they could ind no place in which Alice could feel sure that Tipsey would ,receive fair treatment. So he went with them. For a week they had a most enjoyable time. It would not be in keeping to expect anythingelse during a honeymoon. They would go on tours of investigation from the city for two or three days at a time, never going far, but living a happy-go-lucky life, with no excitement except what Tipsey caused. One day they stopped on the wharf to see a freight vessel from England come in. The great ship slowly glided up to the landing and a few passengers stood ready to leave it. Suddenly

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be mad when she finds out the truth! She'1l probably come after me. I don't see what business that fussy preacher had in ask- X WX ll LEX 4 bA , p w I f'S?f':fs-RCE? fiiffr ing me if I had my parents' consent. Let's take Tipsey out of this cage, poor thing. Now, Tipsey was a monkey in characteristics, as Well as in physique, and no sooner had he crawled out of his foot- square cage, and had stretched himself a little, than he began to investigate. I-Ie found out where the drinking water was obtained, and he quenched his thirst every ive minutes. The passengers hastily hunted up their own private traveling cups. I-Ie tried to get into the pockets of a loud-voiced, gaudily-dressed lady, whose handkerchief was very strong of perfume that smelled like his pet kind of candy. He took exercise by jumping from one chandelier to another, in the parlors, to the terror of a fat lady who wasn't spry and knew it, and to the great amusement of general small boys, until he broke a globe and cut his tail badly 5 whereupon Alice wound a ribbon around it and tied a bow,which was the source of more pride to him than is seemly in a monkey. He slid down the brass banister by mistake once, and enjoyed the scare so much that he spent one entire morning pursuing his reiiection down the glistening pole. The captain complained. He said he could furnish someone who could shine the brass without scratching it all up. Tipsey wound his tail around and hung from everything conceivable for such use, and a great many things inconceivable. He took his afternoon siesta on the big- gest sofa in the dining-room, and shed his hairs abundantly on it. What he did in the kitchen is unknown, except that his popular- ity and the number of his visits there increased daily, and he was

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Alice gave a gasp. Oh, Tom, look! look! What shall we do? Her skirts lifted with both hands and her nose in the air Madame Burnett was the Hrst to tread the gang-plank. After her came her maid' and her brother, a small man and completely under the control of Madame. She, the lady, was tall and fleshy, with a corn- rnanding ,air, and just now a stern resolve to carry out certain deep- laid plans. Tom hurried Alice away, only stopping to say, laughing: I won- der how much she paid them ,to let her ride on that ship. They reached their boarding- house only to iind that Madame had liked its name and had decided to stop there. A good-sized fee prompt- ed a native to bring their trunk out the back door, and, cramming the mon- key into the cage, they followed their property to another place, half a mile away. ' It doesn't matter, said Tom, calmly, if they are here. In this big place we shall proba- bly not meet them again? 1 V k, - 1-L rj, ' -fa--:f?' ' W Z ,sf X ' W , I I 17,2719 f ef f fff' lf? ,wi ! Madame Burnett was the Hrst to tread th gang' plank. But at nrst fate was against them. Madarne's stern resolve had been- taken and was going to be carried out. They saw her A trti p