The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-11-26
YELLOW DOG'S HISrORr.



IennnesS TO tnt Prosperity.
year ago there lived in Crosby street.
5ust around tue corner from Beecker, a yellow
dog that was about the poorest, leanesi. scrawni-
cat. and most fOiorn OF even yellow dogs. No
body owned him and he had no place to sleep
In and added to his physical suffering was a
racking fear that each DAY would he his last.
lie awoke one winters morning from his bed in
the Crosby street gutter, hungry and cold and
trembling IN every lint. starry 4tion stared him
out Of countenance, and despair made hin des-
perate. Remembering that the restaurant
Keeper at broadway and Bleecker usually
kept hanging outside OF lis door game aud
Joints Of meat. the yellow dog resolved to steal
one square meal and take the r,-N that h might
be bis last. Pointing ia that direction he sag
gered along Blocker street and across Broad
way. Oh the western Sidewalk. not ten feet
from the longeo-for food, the veil dos en-
countered ar # sunlight, and It's genial
warmth. the first ne b ii ieit Tor We tl-. hr tor
got all his truuOle-. lncliuins even hi- hlb.er.
and lay down t. sun himself. hecdlc-s that he
was In the way Of all lel-atriaii-. and /. ihle 70
be kicked to death a. ANY moIucnt. tie didn't
care. Kicks were 10 novelty and warmth wa-.
But nobody kickcd nim. MANY nearly stun bled
over him, Out al when they saw what
wretchet dog 1t was steered out and lei! hin In
peace 49,. ..,.
obstructlng travel walked tow rd hin with
stels - me sufed as 10 bring hin within e. 'r-
venient kicking distance nut when he came
close ana saw what "A low down doE II was. the
policeman thought II would he a waste u
strength to Kick nm, ana So he simply stood
and pointed I him Win hi, cluU. Ibe yellow
ooe knew what that meant JUS a, wei as
though the policeman IA served ON MIN two
summonses, four iniuGc. ions. a Lahtas cor
pus, ana a. writ OF ccrtiorari: IL meant
Move ont struggling wearHy to as
feet, the yellow dog ,rdwled into the street,
followed by the cye OF the oil Il. wnu-e
heart, when he saw what an utterly broken dug
II was, reiented. Looking back 70 sec II lie was
at q safe distance, tue dog saw re change ~ the
oncers face, aud lniermein. II ailsht. he cau-
uously wagged his tan ami CT .wicd back to the
poitceman's feet and lay down nsain In the sun
light. and the big officer sWnng his ciuD With an
ar OF seli-satisfaction aud marched OH up
After that the dog rather took to the oficer,
saloon keepers VINO wanted - Keep In
with the policeman sought to please him
,SnlooSei.for ifS food resei hls as,o%mi,hed
stomach. His leanncss dis tppcared, his hair
grew out straight ana eyen he wa7 no longer
kicked out Of the saloons IN which he sought
pights lodging, and he came To- be hs much Of
dog as Il Is possible for yellow dog ever TO be.
The friendship between the oilcer hnd the
InoR mas grown with the wear, aud nov they are
lnseparaDle. The dog goes on pot when the
.onicer does, following at a respectful distance
,omctr stands, sitting up not far away, and con-
femplailng his Protector with marked signs Of
approval IL was only iesterd - that the oficer,
while ann ably converting VITA al, friend Major
schottguhn at Iioadway and Blocker, the
scene OF the turning ioint ~ the yellow dogs
life, saw boy riding uptown on tie -t.us ui n
BteGe. Nonchalantly raising hls wlistIe. the
pmcer gave signal I, the diver, and the wise
boy promptly jumped, rather than bc knocked
on by the banging Of the door; hut the grateful
yellow dog, hlled with admiration Tor the mar
sellous powers of his big friend, scraped his tail
pm the ndgstone, moved his forreg- with uneasy
10Y, bodied BIS head, and licked his lips, and,
Houbt ESQ, said tO himself "GuOduess grdCi u,
what an Uflicer this l.! VINO can stand on the
ndewalk and blow hoy clean OF the tail Of
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