Two Wicked Boys

Texas Siítings. The üreat ínter üshun Syclopian Sh'cus was in town and they had n Manager)' and the tiger got looso and the people all over town got scartand there ras dead loodes of run and climbing out of the way. Oíd man mcEvans he i.f.n-tl of itbuthe wasn't scart bccaws he lives m the other end of town and he didn'.t Üiink no tiger would go out fh re. Ho was sleepiug ou his galry and Mira was reeding a book np stairs wüen Jir.i Hinkle & Sam Riohie saw them and fchey put up a Job on the old man They coaxt his big yellcr dog rm d to the back of the house with a oí pie- and they had black paint in a buckot and they painted stripes on t!ic dog and Sam wanied to cali il a zebra but Jim said they'd pretend it was a tiger. Whon they'd got it all ready tkey tliroo thepieeo of pie on the old mans neo when bc vras aleeping on the "aii-y and the pie.woke him up and he saw the yallcr dog thnt he thot was a tiger coming for him and ho yelled polecce nní'híi thot his end was come and Biira she skreemed íiro and Jim went to run away and he was shouting Ma4 Tiger and he feil down and Sam triped over him and spilt the paint on his liead and the aaybors come out with shot guns and blazed away at the tiger and shot a street car the ürst blazo and a man kiled the tiger, not the sure cnongli tiger, yon no, but theyeller dog with a fence ralo on the hed: and when they found tliat it was no tiger but McKvanses dog you shood have seen poor old McEvans pranze around and hc just made the air bloo. It beet the sirena but it was a shamo lor the dog is dead and Mira sez her harts broko and the old man split his close and hes now laying for them boys and he says when he catches them he'll nt enuff stripes on them to make a tiger ashamed of himself.