Making It Lively

Thoy had a terrible time at the West End the other day. A colored lady left a pitcher standing ou her door-step and a bee got into it. Pretty soon along carne a neighbor's dog and he saw the j bee, and ais head went down into the i pitcher after the insect. But after he got in there the dog didn't flnd thing.s jnst as he had expected. In the first i place, it suddenly grew dark, and in the next plaee he didn't get the bee. He concluded to draw out, but found, that owing to the form of the pitcher, he cou'dn t so easily do it. He backed away with all his might, but the pitcher clung to him. And then the bee began to get in his work on the dog, and the circus began in earfiest. The dog howled fearfully and began to plunge wildly about, and thuu startedon a mad run down the street. Just as it starled, the colored lady saw the anima' and slie set otï in an anxious frame of mind to recover her pitcher. The dog being completely blindfolded by the pitcher oould not guide itself, but got underthe feet of a stout man, and both took a roll in the gutter, and the shouts of the man, who did not attcmpt to disguise his annoyance, were as loud as the yells of the dog. The pitcher didn't I break, and the anima! was on its f eet and away again before the colored lady could come up, and soon tangled hei'3elf all up with a polieeman's legs, and made a terrible fuss. By this time a.crovvd had collected, and as the dog took to turning summersaults and jumping instead of running, the colored laay was enabled to get to the scène. The policeman attempted to yank the pitcher trom the dog's head, but it stuck, and the eftbrt merely resulted in neariy yanking the dog's head off. Then he proposed to relieve the howlino; animal by brêftking the pitcher, but the ovvner of the croekery, who was makiug a terrible fuss, strenuously objeeted, and then the policeman contrived to thrust his hand in beside the dog's head to try and push the animal's head out, and he must have got hold of the bee, for he suddenlv yanked his hand out. waved it wildly in the air, and spoke blaspliemy as he daneed about. After he got calmed down a little, he cursed the owner of the pitcher, and drawing his locust, hit the erockery a blow that shattered it into a thousand fragmenta. The dog being then released, ñavr away like the wind; the colored lady, after i an excited oration was induced to go homo rather tlian be taken to the : tion house, the crowd dispersed and the officer was left on the corner j ing his thunib and muttering to himself something that may have been a prayer.