Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-10-21
A STORY FOR LITTLE Pee
PIE.
From o. Young Folks.
LULU,s PUPIL

Little Miss Lulu was tired IF all her
dolls,-and she had good many dolls
to be tired Of There was the big china
doll with blue eyes and light flaxen
hair, and there was the pink wax doll
with curly golden wig; and there
was the little china doll dressed like a
boy, and the black china doll with
red petticoat that waited on the white
lady dolls ; and there was the IL that
could open and shut it's ewes, and the
doll that could say mamma" in fact
there were about a dozen more that 1
cannot now enumerate, but Lulu had
become tired of them all. Il want a
real EiUe doll,' she said.
So one day her mamma brought her
home the pet that you see here repre-
sented in the picture. It was q little
Spitz puppy named MufT His hair was
long and silvery white, he had bright
black eyes, and the prettiest pink
tongue in the world, and was about
the jolliest little dog that could be
bought for any money. ETe was called
Muf because he looked, when set down
upon the carpet, very much ike q lit
tie white muff running about on four
little white stumpy legs and the mo
ment he was put down in The parlor he
trotted about smelinE at eEerVthing
he could find. He smelt of the curtains
of the chairs, of the Ottomans, and ran
his nose all along the side of the rom,
which is a dogs way of taking an OBJ
servation.
Lulu was delighted. This was pet
worth having. Her dolls, she thought
were stupid. They never did anything;
they never moved except she moved
them. The doll that could open and
shut its eyes never did open or shut
them except just while Lulu pulled
the wire, and Lulu got tired of pulling
the wire; but no soon was Mr.. Muff
set down on his four paws IN the cor
ner than he began such a " hisk and
scamper that it made lively times for
Lulu. Round and round he ran snuff
fing at this thing and at that. and bark
ing with a short, quick snap, like the
letting off of pistol.
Mercy on us - said Lulu's mamma,
''what shall we do if that dog is going
bark SO? (? 1t goes through my head
like knife. Lulu, if you are going to
have Muff for your dog. YOU must
teach him not to bark"
so yes indeed, mamma" " said Lulu.
"I'll teach him.; and so, as you see,
she sat down on the ottoman and took
MuH in her lap to instruct him how to
behave.
Muf had been racing, so that his lit
tie pink tongue hung like a ribbon out
of his mouth, and Miss Lulu proceed
ed to fan him in order to cool him, as
she said: snow, Muffie dear, you must
remem Der you are my dog now, and I
must teach you exactly how to behave.
You mustn't bark out loud in the
parIOrs, Muff1e /; do you hear ?''
just then the door-bell rang, and
down jumped Muff1e, and "whack,
whack, whack" went his sharp little
bark.
1t was Miss Marabout and Miss Tul-
leport come in all their best flowers
and feathers and silk dresses to call on
mamma.
In vain did Lulu try to stop Afuff ;
she could not catch him. He ran
"whack, Whack, whacking' - now here
now there, under Miss Marabout's silk
trail and over Miss Tulleport's new
satin, and made such din and con
fusion that nobody could hear~auy body
else speak.
h Jennie, you must take that dog and
shut him up in the nursery" said
mamma and away Muff was carried
in deep disgrace, barking like a pocke ct
pistol all the way.
80 dear me, Muffie, what a bad dog
you are ~ said little Miss Lulu, who
came trailing up stairs after him, ''to
bark so just after I talked to you so
nicely. and told you just how to be-
have.';
Well. that was not the worst scrape
that Muff got his young mistress into.
He was, to tell the truth, the most mis-
| chievOus little wretch thar ever wore
dog-skin. What do you think of this ?
! One day it was decided that Lulu was
to go with whole party of children to
a picnic in the country. Her mamms
| had Just finished for her a smart little
cambria dress to wear on the occasion
and when Lulu went to bed it was
4 laid out on a chair thatshe might put
it on in the morning. ~
But a.asi in the morning there was
no. dress to be seen, and after great
i searching ana wondering it was founC
under the bed in Mr.. Muff1s posses
sion. Muf was shaking it about in his
mouth, and had torn and mangled il
so that it was not fit to be seen. II
fact; he had chewed up and swallowed
half of the front breadth, so there was
no possibility of mendfng it.
Lulu wept bitterly over her spoiled
dress, and all the more that it wa,
spoiled by her new faVOrite 1t was
agreed that Muff should be put intC
Solitary confinement while she went t.
the picnic. So Muff was locked into
closet, and Lulu went off with he.
tears dried, and an old dress in placl
OF the new one she had expected Il
wear.
Arrived on the picnic ground, wht
should appear, fresh and noisy, bu
Master Muff? He had jumped out o
the closet window and followed hi
mistress, determined tosee some of tn,
: funI
This is only one specimen of the mis-
CHIEF that MuH was always doing. IT
used to run away with her shoes an,
stockings, and chew them to paste
he used to tear her ribbons to shreds
and, when nothing else came to hand
t. would attack the books and newspa
= -pers, shaking and worrying them I'll
they were all in tatters,
Every day Maggie or Susan cam
down to mamma with some new stor-
, of Muff's naughty dOings. He had tori
the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. be had nlarre.