This also happened back when Jayme & Isabel lived on Milton Hershey's campus, in the farmhouse.
I don't remember if it was a late Wednesday Craft Night, or a 20th Gather, or the July 4th party, but it was really late at night. Angus was there, and he was in another room talking to Mantha and Isabel about wanting some horsehair to line his helm, like they did in period. And Mantha said, "Hold on, I'll get you some," and took off!
She hopped down the street to the horse barn on MHS' campus, and got some of the horsehair left over from grooming the horses. It took her about a half-hour, maybe 45 minutes; I don't know if she had to groom them herself to get a substantial amount. I wasn't really paying attention; I was sitting in the living room doing something A&S or another. But the next thing I know, Mantha's back, and drops a canvas bag with Angus' stuff in the living room, and takes off.
And then Suzy saunters into the room! (Does a cat do anything other than saunter?) She turns the corner, not a care in the world...and sniffs this new bag that wasn't here a moment before. Boy, did her face change!! Her ears flattened, her eyes kept getting wider but the pupils kept getting smaller, and she was trying to get as much of her body away from the bag, but she kept getting closer to smell it! The look on her face and body definitely said, "WHAAAT....IS....IN.....THIS......THING?!?!"
She'd never smelled "horse" before, that's for sure!
And suddenly, her tail went *poof*, and it was a bottle brush! I'd never seen a tail do that before, and with Suzy being a short-hair, I never expected her tail to get that big!
And I was laughing so hard, of course everyone came running!
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