CHAPTER X
MASTER GETS TWO SHOCKS
Master was very much pleased with his wife for gratifying him, and he kept looking kindly down at her as she waddled along the sidewalk.
She was all in fur—coat, muff and cap. Several little baby seals must have starved to death, and several mother seals must have died in agony to fit her out.
She didn’t care, for one day I saw her read a story about the cruel seal traffic, and throw it in the fire. I knew what it was, for master told her about it, and then handed it to her.
Well, just as we got opposite Stanna’s house, she started to “jay-walk” across the street, as Gringo says—that is, to cross it in the middle of a block.
Master caught her arm, and said, “Wait a minute—there are too many cars passing.”
“They’ll stop when they see us,” she said impatiently, and she pulled her arm away from him. He tried to catch her again, but she was slippery in her furs, then he got behind her, and literally tried to run her across the street.
If she had only done as he wished her to do, but she stopped short, as she saw a car bearing swiftly down upon her, and screamed.