Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-08
THE WICKED FLEA.
Two Fond Hearts Broken by a Poodle Dog.
From Pecks SUM-

Two Fond Hearts Broken by Il Poodle Dog.
From Peck's SUM-
AS we predicted long ago, the practice
certain girls have of wearing a small
shaggy dog in their laps is bound to
make trouble. A case in point at Chi
cago Will Illustrate how the fatal prac-
tice of keeping pet dog to kiss will
break up the best of friendship. 4
young gentleman who does business on
the Chicago Board of Trade was in love
with beautiful Wabash avenue girl.
and it was belieyed by all that he would
soon allow her to lead him and her dog
to the altar, for she kept dog. He was
not very much mashed on the dog, any
OF the time, and it hurt him to see her
caress the brute, but he thought when
they we're once married he would take
the dog by her hind leg and knock her
brains out against lamp-post. Her
dog was her dog, and that fact an
noyed the lover more than would have
been the case otherwise But the young
man enjoyed himself much, in pressing
his suit, OF his girls, suit. rather, OF an
evening, after the dog had gone to
sleep and been put in its crib. He
would sit On the veranda with tao
object of his alteration, and gaze
out across the Lake-front Park L,
the stately ships as they went by, an,,
as one big ship would seem to be hug
ging close to the shore, he would h;,,
hcr-not the ship-and she would hing
back, according to Hoyle, and then she
would sit in his lap, and he would sit in
hers, and then he would get nervous
and go home. There seemed to be
something biting him. He could keep
his nerve on the Board of Trade, though
wheat went against him, but when his
girl got against him he felt yearning
to scratch himself, a vague longing to
get UP and go away. He went to q
doctor and was examined, and the
doctor charged him S. for the infor1na-
ton that he was covered with feas. He
could not believe it until he went to his
room and go. his roommate to help
him catch quantity of feas. Then his
soul was up in arms There was q
certain pleasure in the thought that he
had caught the feas from the one he
loved, but when he reflected that she
had caught them from the dog, and that
the other dog had caught them from an
italian, and the italian had caught them
from a monkey, and so on back, he was
sick. That evening he called on his girl,
and as she rushed to his presence, and
was going to throw herself, dog and all,
into his arms, with frightened look,
and cry as though the house was COM
ing down, he said:
"Stand back! There is that about
you chat crawls, and hops, and bites.
You have got feas"
Sir" said she, her eyes flashing with
fire. "This insolence shall cost YOU
dear. I have no feas. Why dos5 thou
accuse me of feas? ?" and the tears came to
her eyes, but she wiped them away with
the dog, and controlled her emotion.
For months I have had something
about me each time [ went from voylr
side that has made me pay attention"
said he, mastering up courage to speak,
"and have found that it is feas. You
hold that dog, and the feas leave him to
meander about your system, >picnicking
by day, and going for me at night.
When [ come to you, every flea comes
to me for a square meal. They come
forth like flowers, from your neck, your
corset, your shoes. The woods are full
of them, and my life is burden. I'm
less you swear off on keeping a dog, and
rid yourself of feas, all between us must
be at an end. It must be no dog and no
feas, or no Ike. Which shall it be?''
She thought long over the matter, her
eyes looking into the future, but did
not answer. He was good match, and
was not long on pork, but she could not
make up her mind to part with her dear
dog, that cost her 500. Finally bright
thought struck her, and she offered to
compromise by using insect powder.
His heart had seemingly been turned to
stone, and he told her he could not con-
sent to any compromise, and, leaving
the house, he gave her two days to de-
eide. The next day he saw her at a
matinee with hotel clerk, and the
clerk was constantly feeling up his
sleeves or down his neck for something,
and he thinks she still keeps the dog.
Thus two hearts will be broken, Chi
cago hearts, too, by the poodle dog.