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After that the puppy, which the child
rem had named Max" always made
one of the pleasant group that greeted
the train hands.
Sometimes his shaggy, curly coat was
stuck SO full of flowers that he looked
ike an animated bouquet. Sometimes
there would be a wreath about his neck.
Often the children would make him
walk on his hind legs, make bows, roll
over. turn somersaults, dance and go
through variety of antics which Gott-
lieb, the father, had taken pains to teach
him.
After a while the intelligent dog,
when he heard train rounding the
curve, or crossing the bridge, would
rush out, catch up stick and run about
the meadow with it, dive off the bluff
into the river and swim to the opposite
bank
Or, standing upright, he would dance
and bow like a performing bear, while
the engineer, fireman, conductor, train
hands, and often the passengers, bowed
and laughed in genuine enjoyment of the
whole pretty performance.
By the time Max was full-grown,
baby called Theresa had been born in
the little white cottage, which had
taken the place of the log house, and
when the warm, sunny days came
again, it was the plump, yellow-haired
midget that was rolling about on the
green turf where all the other children
had rollicked in turn.
Little blue-eyed Tissy happened to be
| wonderful creeper. She was strong
and nimble, and would creep on her
small hands and feet quite as fast as The
other children could walk
One day news came from over the sea
from the little old village on the Mo-
selle-that very soon the Mother Lechler
would come to live with her children in
their Ohio home.
Full of JOY Gottleib drove to the near
est station on the railroad, and told the
agent to look out for his mother when
she arrived, and to send messenger up
the track to his house to let him know
she was there.
Grandmother was coming, and there
was great excitement in the happy
household of the honest and hard
working German emigrant. The chill
| dren said: a
Perhaps she will come to-day, and
we will go down to the meadow and
gather flowers to trim Max, and to trim
ourselves and the rooms"
And the smiling, expectant little
mother said she should DC this SaE / ard sq gfhet
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and more cheerful, for the grand
mother would be very wear'
came paby Tissy by the
door for mamma to look after while we
60 to the meadow for daisies," said
Maurice. va
But the mother was SO busy, she did
not heed at all the little charge her 6rst
born had given her. She heard the
merry voices of her children down bach
of the cottage, and soon, as the whistle
of the three o'clock express sounded
she saw the pretty group scampertowarG
the track.
Instinctively going to the open door
way, she, as well as the children, anG
: the engineer and the fireman, was hor.
ror-struck to see baby Tissy between the
long black rails, sitting in the sunshine
scattering handful after handful of whit,
glistening sand in her bright yellow
hair.
: Although the train had slowed up
as usual ON approaching the bridge, i
would be impossible to stop the engin,
{ before it reached the child; but the en-
gineer made the effort. The terrified
l mother could do nothing but lift up he
: pallid face to heaven, and pray TO
8 strength to bear what must inevitabl..
{ follow.
But Just then Max, with his ear
4 thrown back and his plumy tail trailin
4 on the grass, shot like dart from th
/ other side of the track where he ha
v been rambling. The intelligent creatur
: had seen the danger and comprehende
:. it.
: In an instant of time Max had bound
e ed by the screaming children, cleared tn
S intervening space between them and th
T track, caught the babe by the belt of he
pretty pink calico dress, lifted her fror
s the rough-hewn tie upon which she wa
d sitting. and brought her to her mother
s side. -
r "Und den," said Mrs. Lechler, o
q telling the story afterward, "dot er
g chineer he shtopped dot enchine. und b
y COON town dot yard, and he shook min
hant, und he kissed desc children a
s arount nit der baby, und he pat dot tos
v und der dears all der time roll tow
d hims cheeks. c re
|. "He not spik one word, but go rigf
back on dot enchine, und blow dt
e whistle like dunder, und dot drain go o
> like blitzen. 79 u.
a 'Und I sit right town on dot gra:
n and dank der goot Gott; und hug mir
It children, und dey cry, and cry. De-
all at once, somebody said in Sherman
n Daughter, why do you gryP'
" "Und l look up, und dere is our Mu
,e ter Lechler, from ever der groswasse
und I dinks she be ghost.
4 "She say to me: How dot man kno
i right where mine Gottlieb live?'
,e "He say: Get off der next time d.
is drain shtops.' :
a ssUnd der drain, shtops, und get O.
- und dere be mine sons frau und mil
20 Grandchildren. ''--An,sie a. Preston,
IN YOUTHS Companion.