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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1924
Lawrence Post Office Employee Figures in Christmas Surprise; Cat Mews But no Cat Appears
Christmas is but a few days away,
and there are beginning to be circumscribed
stories, both legend and real in
relation to that holiday. This is one
that is real, yet it *has* the air of it
legend, or a myth about it.
This story concerns a certain mall carrier, who has for his route a street where not only university students, but also children, live.
When this particular servant of Uncle Sam sorted his mail and packed his bag this particular morning, he picked up a package bearing a foreign postmark. It was a package from Italy, and it seemed to be light for its size. But he paid no particular attention to its size.
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When he picked it up,he heard a
sound—a sort of "now" it seemed.
Or painting a hasty glance of investigation, he saw old Tom, the official mouse catcher of the office perched on a mail sack thrown over a radiator. Mr. Carrier just took it for the job — a "mew" and that it emanated from that source, and let it go at that.
at it were, in the vernacular of Mt.
Oread.
However, that first time he took off his bag and set it down, to open a corner mall box, he again heard the same sound. He, thinking that Tom had condescended to be affectionate, said, "I was feeling tailed around but saw nothing, not even so much as a squirrel. Ascordially he decided his ears were
playing pranks on him—foxing him,
Owing to the fact that this morning was unusually bright and cheeky, he did not even think of worrying about it. He was shocked when a shoulder from shoulder to shoulder or otherwise disturbed it, he heard the same noise. Sometimes it wounded as if it were a child calling for its mother, but sometimes it was first time he heard it—like a cat.
Four or five times this happened, and he began to think that some one was playing a trick on him. He would catch to catch it at it, he would turn suddenly around, but the sound would stop so he heard the sound again, always back of him. He did not know what to make of it. There was one thing that saved him from possible despair—he was a realist, not a rogue. He knew how to get the better of him. Hence he was not bother so terribly much about it.
It was when he came to a certain
address on this certain street, that this certain carrier was enlightened as to the cause of his discounture. At this address there lived a little boy, whose hair was not yet had her hair bobbed, but which was in gloaming ringlets.
She generally not him at the door, with always a pay little laugh, and a question as to whether he had any mail for her. This morning, it was the mother that came to the door. The carrier set his bag down, again that "mamma-mow." The eyes of the mother were at the door. She took out the package with the foreign label. Again the sound! "Hurry," and the mother, "before little Gloria gets here. It's from Santa Claus."
The whole secret was out—he knew what it was. Nothing more than an imported talking doll and when placed in certain positions it gave forth instinctive calls for communication that the carrier had heard every new and then.
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