Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-02-26


Jerry such a lot Of things since you
have been away; he can fetch sticks
out of the water, and beg splendidly-
come here, Jerry" (taking piece of
bread from the breakfast table, " and
show papa how you can beg"
Jerry accordingly, beautiful black
retriever whicd [ had bought for Ned
a few months before, sat up and look
ed as demure as a four-legged stole
can do, till he got the bread, when he
thanked Ned by wag of his tail.
'eT taught him that, papa" cried
Ned. Good dog, Jerry! But Liz
zie" (Ned's sister, "heIped to make
him fetch the sticks
"Wen, but" said |, rather amused,
if you teach him all this, Ned, does
he never teach you anything in re-
turn 2"
"He, indeed! Come, now, papa,
what can dog teach me? And 1 am
very glad, dear old Jerry" blending
down and clasping Jerry, who returned
the salute by licking the boys face)
''you at any rabe don't come the
sehool-master over one; it is enough
to have old Goggles (this was Ned's
dreadfully irreverent name for his mas
ter, who wore spectacles) bothering
one from morning to night with his
xyz's and his Greeks, isn'tit? What
do you think, papa? old Goggles pos
itively makes us learn half a page of
irregular Greek verbs every morning
now; but we. always slip them when
We can"
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mild answer, "We have all of us had to
go through the same hard experience,
/ suppose. But as to Jerry, do you
know I think he tries to teach you a
good deal, if you have only the wit to
learn? Only jerry is wiser than most
masters he teaches chiefly by exam
pie. .
Now this, as [ thought it would,
piqued Ned, whose great failing was to
think himself immensely clever.
Indeed, papa!" he cried, rather
scornfully, "And pray what is he
teaching me now, as he is jumping
about ike that?" For since we had
got out of the house, Jerry was run
ming about like a mad dog, now bound
ing q dozen yards forward, now run
ming back to rs and IeapiDg up, bark
ing all the time and wagging his tail
till | though 1t would come off. "
oh, can'tyCu see, Ned? 2" / replied
coolly. " It's lis way Of giving you
lesson against cruelty to animals. y
@# q don't see it bit"
"WLy, he is barking out as loud as
he car. See how delighted 7 am at
getting out of doors-just as you are,
Ned, when you rush out Of school!
You see there is not as much differ
ence as you thought, between you and
me; I, and all other animals can feel
pleasure and pain as keenIy as your
self; so remember that, the next time
you pull q poor little fy's wings of. .
Well, come, papa, I am not cruel
to animals, whatever else I may be, y
protested Ned.
- TdoD't think you are, Ned, inten-
tionally, I answered. sEBy the way,
how is the last of those little bullfnches
you and Tom Ducie brought home a
few days ago ~
oh, it tumbled into pan of boil
ing water yesterday, papa, so we were
obliged to kill it, said the boy.
All, then, that makes up the six,
does 1t not? Let me see: there was
this; and one you said fell out of the
nest; two the cat got; and two wouldn't
eat, you told me, because you could not
feed them as well as the old bird did.
Sothe whole six are disposed Of now.
Oh, 10, Ned you are not cruel intan-
tionally."
Ned began to see that I was boxing
fun at MIN, SO he did not answer but
walked on suLkily, kicking down the
thIstles which happened to be rank
along the lane side. BY and by we got
to the river, where Jerry bounded in
after the sticks and stones Ned kept
throwing for him into the water. We
had amused ourselves for sometime
with watching him paving for the
stones or snatching the stick in his
mouth, and after shaking himself when
he got back to land, bringing us the
reco fered treasure.
At last Ned, who never sulked for
long time at once, laughed and cried
out TO me : There papa, now; what
lesson IS Jerry giving me now? To
fetch sticks out of of the river, [ sup
pose; but you surely don't want me to
learn to do that {?
: No, Ned, [ do not But Jerry is
trying you now on quite a different
tack, because he sees you have already
forgot his last lesson to you about
cruelty to animals "
= Wei, how am I cruel now 2"
BY not remembering, Ned. that it
IS a cold day for him to be so long in
the water. The sport was very well at
first both for us and the dog; but you
never noticed that for the last five
minutes poor jerry has been shiverino
violently with cold every time he came
out Of the water. I did notice it. but
l thought l would see how long YOU
would go on"
Oh, papa, I did not think of it.
Poor Jerry!" said Ned, blushing, and
then caressing his dog, who galIoped
Oft a hundred yards a moment after
wards and soon raced himself warm.
" So you see that jerry, observing
you did not mind his first lesson, was
trying to give you another OF quite a
different kind, [ went on.
{" What was that, papa 3"
=" Why, | think he must have heard
you when you were talking about Mir.
Wilson, CHS was the name by which
Old Goggles was known to all the
world except his pupils land saying
how much you hated learning those
Greek verbs. So jerry said to himself,
Now, I'll just show Ned practically
8Aat he ought to DO about these verbs,
and.
g Wells All, papa, you are sticking
A." Not at all. T'u give him, says
Jerry, a right good example once for
all OF obedience, and cheerful obedi-
enee. toto show him he ought to do
things he does not like, when Ie knows
~ IS right So Jerry plunged in time
alter. time because you were his master
and told him. And though he hated the
business, and it made him as cold and
miserable as was possible, still he went
on as long as you thought proper. and
never ever murmured. But I've no
doubt ne sad to himself, as he qave
himself that last shake, There fined
doesntsee what he ought to do about
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