The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-08-23
A Little Brown Dog.

A Little Brown hog.
He was a poor little fellow, Grand
boy in the large grocery of Rice, Cloves
Il Co. Il don't mean the brown dog, but
Harry Jacklow), and he earned Just SO
a week.
Sixty cents of this went for car fare
he lived so far from the store that he was
obliged to ride to and from it-and the
rest to his mother, who, with that and
the SO week she received from the
cloak factory where she worked. SUD-
ported herself, her children-Harry, IL
years Of age, Eddie, 7, and Jennie, Q
and Mr.. Jacklow.
Mr.. Jacklow was her husband, and the
less said about him the better. I'll
merely state that he could sit in rock
ing-chair and smoke and think longer
than any man I ever knew.
But, besides this 50 week. Harry.
who was bright-eyed, willing, whist
thing young chap, sometimes got a 2 or
Decent piece, or, more rarely, dime,
from his employers customers when,
the grocers' wagons being overloaded or
the customers In great hurry, he car
ried home their purchases for them.
And it was this money he had been saw
ing ever since the 1st of January, for the
purpose of having a good time on the
next holiday.
On Christmas day they had had
real nice time at his house. His "boss"
had given him 50, and the Superintend-
ent of the place where his mother
worked had given her 81, and somebody
(thnxy bod fo-r1 -l.eN 1
sent them large turkey, and the dress
maker down stairs had put a box of
tools in Eddie's stocking-dear me (!
what am / saying? she couldn't have
done that; 1 meant to say she had given
Ned box of tools, and Jennie doll,
in the name OF Santa Claus-and Harry
had presented his mamma with new
coffee-pot, and his mamma presented
him with wooden comforter and pair
OF wooden gloves, and Mr.. Jacklow had
bought himself a new..pipe, and, when
Harry saw how happy they all were, he
quickly made up his mind to give them
"a party on the very next holiday, which
would be the Fourth of July.
1t was the 3D. of July when my story
commences, and Harry had kept his
resolution of saving every penny out
side of his wages. He had to pass
many heap of rosy apples without
CHANGING at them, run away from many
peanut stands, force himself not to look
into the tempting windows of the candy
stores, and go by on the other side when
he knew himself near a well-kn. wn
bakery, to do SO; but he had done so,
and now his reward was near.
The house in which he lived was an
old-fashioned one in an uptown street.
A quarter of century ago it had been a
small farmhouse, surrounded by mead.
ows, but now it had large tenement
house on each side, and whole row OF
brick buildings in front of it. But one
splendid old oak tree still stood before
the door" Bully to tack pin. wheels
on" said Harry to himself, and there
was any number of children around to
cry ooh !" and "Ah - as the fire. works
went of. 1 have always noticed that,
when boy is setting off fire. works, the
more ah-ing and oh-ing there is the
brighter the fireworks look to that boy
Well, Harry had laid out the supper IN
his mind as follows: Ice-cream, whole
quart, 12-cent sponge-c cake, five sticks
OF molasses candy, pitcher of lemonade
apple pie, half pound of cheese anC
some baked potatoes-Mr. Jacklov
liked baked potatoes. And he meant t.
get his mother and the rest of them on
of the room (send them down to visi
the dressmaker, who, at the last mo
ment, was to be let into the secret), Sc
the table himself, and then, when al
was ready, call them up again. Wouldn'
it be fun to look at their faces whel
they saw the ice-cream and the sponge
cake, and the molasses candy, and tn,
lemonade, and the apple pie, and tn,
cheese, and the baked potatoes /
would be almost as good as circus
Harry had been there once, and ha,
never forgotten how delightful it was
And then, after the supper was over, an,
they thought the entertainment at al
end, wouldn't it be fun again to see thei
faces when he invited them down on th
front stoop to see the pyrotechnic Goo
in your dictionaries) display
So Harry had been saving, and say
ing, and saving, until he found himself
on the evening of the 3D. of July, wit
$1.82 in his right-hand trousers pocket
Times had been very hard since the ne,
year began, and people had looked YER
sharply after their small change, or it
likely he would have had double tina
amount. "But," he said to himself
, ga dollar will get the feast, anu the res
will buy at least dozen nice fireworks
He got home from the store on tina
evening too late and too tired to go on
. for the things he wanted, but the mex
morning he was up before the sun ros
and the sun rises pretty early durin
the summer months-and dressed an
; out in the street as the first sunbeam
told the eastern sky morning had come
The streets we're almost deserted, an
| no fire-crackers or pistol. shots yet brok
the silence. But before he had Wake
. block some cannons doomed in th
, distance, and peal of bells nearer b
. began ringing yankee Doodle" yer
t merrily. Whistling, and iingling til
q coins in his pockets in tune and tim
5 with the music of the bells, and wishin
9 the stores where he meant to buy th
l materials for his party would open, h
Q sauntered slowly along until he reache
the dog pound-a place where all stra
dogs are taken in hot weather and kel
r | a dav or two 40 that their owners ma,