# Tag

Newlyweds on their honeymoon accidentally take possession of a young orphan boy and his dog.
Publisher's advertisement, 1909: An amusing story of a newly married couple, whose honeymoon is interrupted by the appearance of a lost child, and a dog, decidedly a dog. The young wife, whose kindly interest in the forlorn little fellow traveller, "Bateese " and his "Chien Boule Dog," results in all sorts of complications, the young husband, and last, though not least, the boy, "Bateese," who is sublimely unconscious of being the central figure in what proves almost a tragedy (at least from the point of view of a man cheated out of his honeymoon) are all drawn with a fine humor. The story is an exquisite bit of humor which will be read again and again.
TAG;
OR, THE CHIEN BOULE DOG
"A WILD THREE-CORNERED CONVERSATION ENSUED." (See page 7.)
OR
WALLACE GOLDSMITH
Copyright, 1909, By L. C. Page & Company (INCORPORATED)
Entered at Stationers’ Hall, London
All rights reserved
First Impression, August, 1909
Electrotyped and Printed by THE COLONIAL PRESS C. H. Simonds & Co., Boston, U.S.A.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
* PAGE
* “A wild three-cornered conversation ensued.” (see page 7).................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Frontispiece
* “Each . . . having a cardboard tag attached to his neck”................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................2
* “It became a banquet of a more substantial order”................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................9
* “Bateese became smiling and amiable at once”................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................10
* “Still Bateese remained fatherless”................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................18
* “Officials were interviewed”................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................19
* “Started in pursuit”................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................29
* “He therefore regretted he could not accommodate them”................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................31
* “A shout of hilarious mirth went up from the bystanders”................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................35
* “Danced noiselessly round the room”................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................42
* “‘I whaled that carrot-head good an’ hard’”................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................47
* “Josephine . . . waved a dirty paw airily”................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................51
* “He paused with dramatic effect”................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................58
* “It was quite a friendly party which discussed the event of the day”................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................65
* “Just then a street piano struck up a lively tune”................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................85
* “She stood at the door of a shop”................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................90
* “The group which soon gathered gathered about the window”................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................100
* “She looked anxiously at the distracted parent”................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................116
* “They drove along the country road”................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................126
* “The two men emerged arm in arm”................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................131
* “Watching a departing train”................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................137
* Chapter I
* Chapter II
* Chapter III
* Chapter IV
* Chapter V
* Chapter VI
* Chapter VII
* Chapter VIII
* Chapter IX
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