The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-08-24
THAT DEpRAVED JUVENILE
THE BAD 10Y TAXES A DOG TO TH}
GROCERY MAN.


auaintance--The Grocery Mans Assis
ant Has nm Adventure.
Hello said the grocery man to tn
bad boy, as he came in with a black eye
leading a hungry-looking dog that wa
walking on three legs and had one lie
tied up with red silk handkerchief
"What is this? part of your amateu
theatre? Now you get out of her
with that dog mighty quick. A bo
that hurts dogs so they have to hav
their legs tied up is no friend of mine,
and the grocery man took up broom
to drive the dog out doors.
"There, you calm yourself" said thu
boy to the grocery man, as the dog go
behind the boy and looked up at thu
grocery man as though he was no
afraid as long as the bad boy wa
around. "Set up the crackers and
cheese, and sausage, and pickles. and
everything this dog wants to eat III
is friend of NINE That dog is my
guest, and those are my splints on hiA
broken leg, and that is my handker
chief that my girl gave me wound
around it, and you touch that dog ex
cept in the way of kindness, and dowI
comes your house. and the boy doubled
up his fists as though he meant bust
ness
"Poor doggie," said the grocery man
as he cut off piece of sausage and of
ferel it to the dog, which was declined
with thanks, expressed by the waggind
tail. "Where did you steal him."
81 didn't steal him, and he is nc
Gambia. He won't eat your sausage,
and the boy put up his elbow as thong.
to warn off an imaginary blow. "Y ou
see, this dog was following off pet
dog that belonged to a woman, and she
tried to shoe him away, but he wouldn
shoe. This dog did not know that he
was low-born, miserable dog. and
had no right to move in the society o.
an aristocratic pet dog, and he follow &c
right along. He thought this was
free country, and one dog was as good
as another, and he followed that woman
and her pet dog right into her door
yard. The pet dog encouraged this
dog and he wentin the yard, and when
the woman got up on the steps she
threw a velocipeie at this dogy
and broke his leg, and then she took
up her pet and went in the house SC
she wouldn't hear this dog howl. Shd|
is nice woman, and l see her go I'd
meeting every Sunday with lot of
Morocco books in her hands, and once|
pumped the organ in the church
where she goes, and she was so pious,
l thought she was an angel. But
angels don't break dogs legs. Now, Il
am going to lay this dog in the barrel
of dried apples, where your cat sleeps,
and give him little rest, and l will
give you four minutes to tell me al
you know, and you will have threa|
minutes on your hands with nothing
to say. Intuition your lip and give|
your teeth vacation"
"Well, you have got gall. Howl
ever, l don't know but you are right
about that woman that hurt the dOgl
Still, it may have been her way of pet
ting a strange dog. We should try tO|
look upon the charitable side OF peo-|
pies ecceL tricit;es. But say, want til
ask you if you have seen anything of
my man that delivers groceries. Sat1
urday night sent him over to you'd
house to deliver some things about IN
o'clock, and he has not showed up|
since. What do you think has bc1
come of him?'
"Well, by gum, that accounts for it'll
Saturday night about 10 o'clock wd
heard somebody in the back yard
around the kitchen door, just as we
were going to bed, and pa was afraid
it was burglar after the church,
money he collected last Sunday. Hell
had got to turn it over the next day to|
pay the minister's expenses on his val
cation, and it made him nervous to|
have it around. l peeked out of theI
window and saw the man, and l told
pa and pa got revolver and began
shooting through the wire screen to
the kitchen window, and 1 saw the
man drop the basket and begin to climb
out and began to groan, as though some
body was dying in the alley, and j.
brought in the basket with the mack
erel and green corn, and told pa that
from the grooming out there l guessed
he had killed the grocery delivery man.
and l wanted pa to go out and help me
hunt for the body, but he said he was
going to take the midnight train to go
out West on some business, and pa lit
out. I guess your man was scared
and went one way and pa was scared
and went the other. Won't they be
astonshed when they meet each other
on the other side of the world? Pa
will shoot him again when they meet,
if he gives pa any sass. Pa says when
he gets mad he had just as soon eat as
60 kill man. Well, must go home
now. l run the family since pa lit out.
Say, send some of your most expensive
canned fruit and things over to the
house" And the boy took the lame
dog under his arm and went out
Peck's Sun.