Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1878-08-16
A LITTLE BROWN DOG.
Harper 5 Weekly.

He was Il poor little fellow. crrand-
boy i'll the large grocery of Rice, Cloves
4 Go, (I don't mean the brown dog, but
Harry Jacklow), ], and he earned just two
dollars d 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 chat
and the eight dollars II week she re-
cciycd from the cloak factory where
she worked, supported herself, her chill
dren-Harry, twelve years Of age, Ed
die, seven, and Jennie, two-and Mr..
Jacklow.
MIR. 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 amy man | ever knew.
But besides this two dollars week,
Harry, who was IL bright-eycd, willing,
whistling young chap, sometimes got II
two or five cent piece, or, more rarely,
dime, from his employers customers
when, tine groccrs' wagons being over
loaded or the customers in great hur-
ny, he carried home their purchases for
them. And it was this money he had
been saving ever since the lst Of Jan
uary, for the purpose of having 4 good
timc on the next holiday.
On Christmas-day they had had real
nice time ut his house. His boss" had
given him two dollars, and the superin-
tendent of the place where his mother
worked had given her one, and come
body obey had never found out wno)
had sent them Il large turkey, and the
dress-maker down stairs had put box
of tools IN Eddie's stocking-dear me
what am saying? She couldn't have
done that: | meant to say She had given
Ned box Of tools, and Jennie doll, in
the name Of Santa Claus4-and Harry
had presented his mamma with n new
cotlec-pot, and his mamma presented
him with a wooden comforter and
pair of wooden gloves, and Mr.. Jacklow
had bought himself u new pipe; and
when Harry saw how happy they all
were, he quickly made UP Als mind to
give them party on the very next
holiday, which would be the Fourth of
July.
II was the Sd of July when my story
commences, and Harry had kept his
resolution If saving every pennv out
side of his wages He had To pdss
many i heap Of rosy apples without
glancing ut them, run away from many
peanut stands, force himself not to look
into the tempting windows ofthe candy
stores, and SO 10y on the otherside when
he knew himself near wel-known
bakery, to do so; but lie had done so,
and now his reward was near
The house il which he lived was an
old-fashioned one in an uptown street.
A quarter Of q century ago il had been
4 small farmhouse sesurroundedb by mca-
dows but now it had Il 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-wheeis
on. said Harry to himself and there
was any number Of children around to
cry "0h ~ and " All y is the fire works
went of. | have always noticed that
Whcn a boy is setting off fireworks, tile
more ah-ing and oh-ing there is, the
brighter the fireworks look to the boy,
Well, Harry had laid out the supper III
lis llIlIiNl a. tOllOh9s lNC-ll CtilIly NliQlt
quart twclye-cent sponge-cake, FIVE
sticks Of molasses cardy, pitcher Of
lemonade, apple pie, half i pound Of
cheese, and some baked potatoes y Mr.
Jacklow liked baked potatoes. And he
meant to get his mother and the rest of
them out IF tic room (Send them down
to visit the dress maker, who at the last
moment was To Dc lct into tie secret
Set the table himself and then, when
all was ready, call them UP again
Nouldn'titb be fun IL look At their faces
when they saw the ice-cream, and the
snonge-cake, and the molasses candy,
and the lemonade, and the apple-pie,
and the cheese. and the baked potatoes /!
IWoull IKE almost as good IL the eir-
eus. Harry had been there once and
had never forgotten how delightful il
was. And then after the supper Was
over, and they thought tile entertain