. The adventures of Tommy Postoffice; the true story of a cat . ry-ing to the little maids rescue, andjust as her foot touched the curbstonehe picked her up in his strong armsand asked in a comforting voice:Well, little girl, dont you think I dbetter carry you out of this crowd *? But its Tommy I Its TommyPostoffice, and the boys chased himinto that store I Oh, please, pleaseget Tommy for me, and Barbaraclasped her small hands imploringly. Tommy Postoffice? queried the 153 THE ADVENTURES OF officer, glancing about in expectationof seeing a small boy. Who is Tom-my Postoffice, little girl*? The
. The adventures of Tommy Postoffice; the true story of a cat . ry-ing to the little maids rescue, andjust as her foot touched the curbstonehe picked her up in his strong armsand asked in a comforting voice:Well, little girl, dont you think I dbetter carry you out of this crowd *? But its Tommy I Its TommyPostoffice, and the boys chased himinto that store I Oh, please, pleaseget Tommy for me, and Barbaraclasped her small hands imploringly. Tommy Postoffice? queried the 153 THE ADVENTURES OF officer, glancing about in expectationof seeing a small boy. Who is Tom-my Postoffice, little girl*? The pussy that lives at the post-office where Uncle Bobbert is. I lovehim, I love him dearly I Come on, and we 11 find him if heis in that store, was the consolinganswer, and the big man, with thelittle girl held tightly in his arms,strode toward the store at which shewas pointing. Tommys pursuers had vanished. Got a runaway cat in here? heasked as he entered. Got the very Old Boy himself,you d better ask! was the indignantretort. Look at this, and this, and 154. Got a runaway cat in here? he asked. TOMMY POSTOFFICE this; and who s to pay for it, I d liketo know*? cried the man, his voice ris-ing higher and higher with each stood in front of his desk as heheld to view a shirt-sleeve drippingwith black ink, pointed to a ledgerlying upon it bespattered all overwith black splashes, and eyed withdisgust a stream of little black rivu-lets which were flowing from it to thefloor. Guess you were right in line whenthe spill came, said the officer, smil-ing. In line! snapped the the whole blamed store wasin line. Never see such a critter asthat one in all my time, drat him! 157 THE ADVENTURES OF Where is he now? asked the offi-cer. Where he wont do no more harmtill I can kill him, you bet your lastcent on that I Better hand him over and let metake care of him. Will you kill him? I tell youthat cats got to die. Here, takehim, and reaching somewhere withinhis desk he hauled
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