The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1882-10-07
AN UNDERGROUND ESCAPE

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AN UNDERGROUND EsCAPE.nI
Snap, my little fox-terlfer, was the
most atiectionatej and devoted dog |
eyer remember. 1T mattered not where
went, he was sure to be elose to my
heels, and the thicker the crowd, the
closer he kept to them. For the three
| years that | lived in London, in all our
wanderings never once missed him or
had any trouble with him. fni.pi i,au
AS far as possible, dogs are prohibit
ed from travelling on the under ground
railway; but ASH had constantly to
travel by it from Kings Cross to Pad.
| dington, and Snaps habit of KEEPING
| close being well known to the Officials
they winked at hisaccompanyingm me.
+ On a certain afternoon. being asiusu-
al, on my way to Paddington, and a
train being due at Kings Cross, |
made rush for it, and reached the plat
form Just as train was coming into the
station.
Jumping into a compartments |
looked to see if the dog was with me,
but to my disnay, as q porter slammed
the door and the train began to move,
4 observed Snap on the platform, run
ming wildly up and down look NO for
me- Suddenly he saw me at the win
dow, but il was too late; and as we en-
tered the darkness of the tunnel |
heard him give q despairing bark.
felt angry with myself for not look
ing after him more carefully, andre
solved to get out at the next. station
and go back for him. But how had he
mi Sa1 II 4. i
for he had never done such a thing be-
fore. Five minutes brought us to Cover
street, and a train then due took me
/ back IN another five minutes to where
had started from. rr
Have you seen my dogp" asked of
a porter there who 'knewlme. nd ..i
| !" Your dog, STRIP answered the man.
"Oh yes, to be sure. You left him be-
hind, dldn' t. youP We'll, as the train
went into the tunnel. Isaw him jump
from the platform and follow it. ;" ,.,.'
"Whatm lsaid; - he WASH following
| it when we reached Cover street,, 2
| Wasn't hep Then expect he's still
in theitunneLl The train went too fast
for him to keep up with it." s,,.,., I
He'll be run overn' / exclaimed,
very nervousifor Snap safety. ~ 1iI1i =
Tel BoHqwhat. sir. r., I'll go and get
PERMISSION, if you like, from the iuspec-
tor to take a lantern and'see if we can
find him, lllsE ,iIn1ayO " .roO
thanked the man, and be started off
70 get the necessary permission. which
the inspector. gave, alter saving some
thing about people having no right to
bring dogs into the station. Together
the man and then went into the ytun-
mel. MA sdXCd ynlgGm .l4OgnA4ynAJ
The unaccustomed darkness, to say
nothing ofathesperilsz ofsasach an expe-
dition, inspired me with considerable
l.dread. and Iiekept tight Hold Of my
1 guides arm. .sIWhen we, had advanced
some two or three hundred. yaEds along
the underground highway, tor rather
I slow" way 1.-THE lights of AN uparain
became Visible. Asst went by and we
| stood still for minute, the roar and rattle
were not aealeulatedd to'ldispel my
Eneryousnessy They. n were terrible
| deafening. Immediately it had passed,
| the porter cried out. H"ol' % 10
Ib9s'Looknthere,s iIsir4--look; thefs1dhe
IL &ss pointing f toward the red dan
ger light at the ftailho the orecedih q
train, and-there;- sureenough, was Snap
scfalmlperinlg after il at a pace9 which no
one could have given fox terrier credit
| for. "a began to call and whistle as
loudly as A. could. 1bgtI nay Yolee was
drowned by the Kissing whir and rattle
going on. olJust then another engine
hoyeinSghA pur,linel otdrails.Iaana
We bad rapidly to step back into one, OF
| the recesses, Or fiian-hofes, as / believe
1Ithey are calied2stW When this Second train
bad shot upast. VS. there again. utq, our
astonishment, was Snap galloping after
it. He had hot Observed Jus. of course.
We their walked on SOME little way
lifiirtherf along the tunnel. and ina min
ute another .up,train passed us, and
there once more Was the dog Behind it.
~ Observation-Disclosures h cried, ISLAND yet
how painful, to see the poor little beast
tearing to and fro for dear life in this
wayl He will surely be run over before
usBut the reason was obvious; he could
not keep up with the speed of the train,
and by the time 10 had -distanced him,
another prohablNlpassediHtAe opposite
Objection, when, confused by the noise
and turmoil, he turned Immediately and
pursued that II seemed 10 me simply