JUDKIN S FATE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 281, 21 November 1908, Page 3

JUDKIN S FATE

Jack .ludkin had a garden plot which | ■ measured thirty-six bv ten; and liel; was want to plant a lot of bulbs and j seed things now and then. Whene'er lie 1 did, as sure as Fate the neighbours' oat bewail to scratch, and bulbless and quite 1 desolate was Mr .ludkms garden patch. ' " I'll end all this," he cried, one day ; < "what though the neigliliours make a > fuss mv garden's mine, and come what mav', I'll guard it with this blunderbuss/' Forthwith lie raked the bit or ground, then with a shovel gave it pais, and when the evening iime came round he anilmseaded for the eats. Wilt came and with its felines gvey, thin "cats and fat ones, white anil black. "Ha ! ha !" and -ludkin blazed away ; what happened never will, alack ! bC| known, for weapons worn and old are apt to burst as well as kick, and the b<>- ( lief is.be it told, that .ludkin's served, him some such trick. ' ' Thev found odd bits of Mr J two. ' teeth.'some whiskers, and an ear but . ninety-live per eenl.'s astray, and wi;l| remain astrav, I fear ; at any rate, li'S ; one-time friends wear mournful looks » and crape-decked hats, and this, one somehow apprehend-, must be for Judi- kill—the cats !