NO. 17 AND NO. 19.

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NO. 17 AND NO. 19.

“People as keeps ’ens,” observed the lady of No. 17, Aoaeia Ten-ace, “should keep ’em at home. One of tne.se days when your fowls comes .scraping in our garden they’ll get their necks wrung.” No. 19 sniffed the air in defiance. “If you was to feed year cat properly perhaps it wouldn't go 'anting round for bulbs," .she observed. “Then you wouldn’t lay the blame on 'ens what belongs to your neighbours.” A week later, the lady of No. 17 again ventured to address her neighbour. “ I'm much obliged for the int about the way our oat should be treated,” idle .said.

“ ’Ope yon find it pay," was the re-

“Oh, yes,” .said No. 17. “Since you spoke about the cat I sprinkled a little barley about the garden and made it up a nice straw bed in the toolhouse, and that cat has took to laying eggs.” No reply came from No. 19, but the next morning there was a wire fence around No. 19 that an elephant could net have broken through.