The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-09-01
TIKI BAD BOY.

"h,llu," said the grocery man
10 tho bad boy, as he came in with
= black eye, leading q hungry
looking dog that was walking on
three legs, and had one leg tied up
with a red silk handkerchief.
What is this, a part of your
amateur theatre I Now you get out
Of here with that dog mighty quick.
4 boy that hurts dogs so that they
rave to have their legs tied up, is
NJ friend Of mine" and the gro
Gerry man took up a broom to drive
the dog out of doors.
There, you calm yourself" said
the boy to the grocery man as
the dog got behind the boy and
looked up at the grocery man as
be ,gas not afraid as long as the
Ucy VAS around. "Set up the
crackers and cheese, and sausage
and pickles, and everything this
tog wants to eat. He is a friend
CT mine. That dog is my guest,
and those are my splints on his
broken leg, and that is my hand
kerchief that my girl gave me,
wound around it, and you touch
that dog, except in a way of kind
meas, and down comes your meat
house" and the boy doubled up
hts fists as though he meant bust
ness.
Poor doggie," said the grocery
man, AZ he cut off q piece of sau
cage and offered it to the dog,
which was declined with thanks,
expressed by the wagging tail.
"Where did you steal him
II didn't steal him, and he is
20 csnnibal. He won't eat your
usage" and the boy put up his
elbow as though to ward off an i'm
eginary blow. "You see, this dog
~'ss following off a pet dog that be-
l"nged to a woman, and she tried
70 shoe him away, but he wouldn't
shoo. The dog did not know that
La was a lowborn, miserable dog,
AID had no right to move in the
society of an aristocratic pet dog,
and he followed right along. He
Thought this was a free country,
and one dog was as good as anoth-
Sr, and he followed right along.
He thought this was a free coun-
try, and one dog was as good as
another, and he followed that wo-
man sud her pet dog right into
her door yard. The pet dog en-
Outraged this dog, and he went in
to the yard, and when the wornan
cot up on the steps she threw a ve-
locipede at this dog, and broke his
leg, md then she took up her pet
md vent into the house 50 she
couldn't hear this dog howl. She
IL nice woman, and l see her 90
TO- church every Sunday with a lot
Of morocco books in her hands, and
once l dumped the organ in the
church where she 60. and she was
80 pious l thought she was an
Nngel. But angels don't break
dogs legs. I'll bet that when she
goes MP to the gate. and secs St.
Eeter open the took, and look for
the charges against her, she will
trsLnble ~ though she had fits.
And when St. Peter runs his finger
down the ledger and stops at the
dog column, and turns and looks at
her over his s~pectacles, and says,
Madam, how about your stabbing
a poor dog with a velocopede, and
breaking its legp she will claim
It vas an accident. But she can't
fool Pete. He is on to everybody's
racket, and if they get in there
they have got to have a clean rec
ord"
"Say, look.a-here," said the gro
osry man, as he looked at the boy
in astonishment az he unwound the
handkerchief to dress the dogs
broken leg, while the dog looked
pPin the boys face with an express
si0nof thankfulness and confidence
that he was an able practitioner in
dog bone-setting, ''what kind of
talk is that You talk of heaven as
though its books were kept like the
books of q grocery, and you speak
too Familiarity of st. Peter"
"Well l didn't mean any disre-
spoct, said the boy, as he fixed u
splint on the dogs leg. and tied it
with a string, while the dog licked
his hand, "but learned in Sunday
school that up there they watch
even a sparrow's fall, and they
wouldn't be apt TO get left on a dog
bigger than a whole flock of spar
rows, especially when the dogs fall
WAS accompanied with such a noise