Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-06-05

.,,.ortrrcs while at each frisk the string
nv which he had been tied up waggieu in
the dust. Poor little doggie! lie thousn
tbat all his troubles were over wheh nc
bad once broken the cord which Ned Mar
tied round his ragged little neck, ont nc
soon found his mistake. ,o
:" Rroke his string. did he? The cue
little baster' said Ned Mar, grinnlng'
when we told him of it. Well, III hX
him this time, never you lear ''0
break this in a hurry" .,;,I,
:" Tbis - was "A bit of thick roap win
which poor Harry was soon secureu W
post. When we left he was tugg'nS anu
straining at it until his eyes seemed svtlt-
inc out of his head. Hdrd-hedTted! les
think we were. would not do IL now.
would rather buy Harry, ugly little cur
AS he was; but you see did not kno" ~
much about animals then rs 90 noW' anu
| had no idea what terrible thing II Is 10
hint doc's feelings. This time Harry
was gone all night and part OF the next
day. lid ,his
time" somebody was saying, When
Whackm
4 sharp, iovous bark called us all to Inc
window. there was Harry, the irrepressl'
| Bile. careering about jOyfully, while the
gnawed and ragged fragment OF rope
Which trailed from his neck, told its own
story of the sharp little teeth which had
been at work on it, .,
The cratur! Think o that, now
said Ned Mar, scratching his head harder
than ever when he heard of it. Well
I'll tell YOU what; Ill thry vance more,
an if can't keep him this time. yez II llst
have to keep bin yersilves. There's no
use in goin' agin natur-but I'll thry vance
more" =,
He did thry wauce moren We waited
10 see an iron chain fastened around poor
IIarry's little neck, the other end OF when
WAS secured to stake which was driven
nearly foot into the ground. No use ior
the sharp little teeth to nibble at that
chain, and all the pulling in the world
would not break it.
Harry is safe this time" we said as
we went home and so he was for two
three, four days.
don't know whether Tip went to con
sole his little friend in his captivity l an
almost sure that he did, but if so, he never
told us. | suppose he thought it forbid
den subject. Four days had passed, ano
then
"What IS that noise upon the lawn"
said somebody.
We looked out of the window, an'
there dancing for joy, was poor little Har
ry, the iron chain still around his neck
and at the end of it the stake, which h
had managed to drag out of the ground
Tip was laughing as hard as he, and look
ed quite rs much delighted.
&" How did you ever do it?" he said i
his dog language. " Such u little felIo'
: us you! Why it would have been 10
for me! And then 10 run mile, draggln
the thing after you. Well, you are
- plucky little chap.'
And Tip sat down upon his tail to laugh
but Harry CHANGING up and seeing us
the window, started up crying:
"Oh. must go and tell them about
e They'll be 50 glad"
re And CHATTER, clatter, clank. came the Ii
As tie fellow up the piazza steps-chall
lie stake, and all-and bounced into OF
IA midst. lavishing his caresses as contidini
" ly rs if we had never tried to get rid
lr him. Well, we couldn't stand it. "
is hadn't the courage to rebuff his honest a
Il lection and break his loyal little hear
ms From that day Tip and Harry lived t.
40 gelher in peace and amity. and we all 10
We got that Harry was an ugly little cur, al
er learned to love him dearly. Don't "
he think that boys and iris might find son
ur sort of moral in this story, if they trie'