Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-08-12

bsd hoy, S. he came in with q black
eve, leading a hungry looking dog that
WAS walking on three legs, and had one
LOO tied up with a red silk handker-
chief. What is this, a part Of your
amateur theatre? Now you get out Of
here with that dog mighty quick. A
boy that hurts dogs so they have to
have their legs tied up, is no friend OF
mine" and the grocery man took up =
broom to drive the dog out Of doors.
"There, you calm yourself" says the
boy to the grocery man, as the dog got
behind the boy and looked up at the
grocery man as though he was not
afraid ss long as the bad boy was
around. "Set up the crackers and
cheese, and sausage. and pickles, and
eyerythiugtha dog wants TO eat. He
Is friend uf mine. That dog is my
guest, and those are my splints on his
broken ley, and that Is my handker-
chief that my girl gave me-, wound
around II, and you tOuch that dog, eX-
cent M the way OF kindness, and down
comes yuur house." and the boy
doubled up his fists as though he meant
business.
"Po"r doggie, said the grocery. man,
~ he cut of a piece Of sausage aud
offered il To the dog, which was de-
rliurd WIKI thanks, expressed by the
wag-.ug ,aul. Where lid you steal
hin 80
81 Giin't steal him, and he is no can
nib: 3 lie won't eat your sausage"
AIT the by put up his elbow AS though
[ O vuri IT All imaginary blow. "GOu
st. tLs dog was following off a pet
dog that belonged 10 a woman, and
she uItd To shUO him away, but he
wou.tu't shoe. This dog did not know
that be- Was Il lOw-bOrn, miserable dog,
and had uO right TO mOvein the society
of Az m.~tOcratic pet dog, and he FOL.
lowed right along. He thought this
was IA lice country, and one dog was aS
gOOi - another, aud lie followed that
woman and her pet dog right into her
door yard. The pet dog encouraged
this Gug, ana he went in the yard, and
whru the woman got up on the steps
she threw a velOcipede at this dog, aud
broke his leg, and then she took up nef
pet and went in the house so she would
not hear This log howl. She il q nice
woman, and l see her go to meeting
every Sunuay with a lot OF morocco
books in her hands, and once | pumped
the organ in the church where she
gOes. aud she WAS 80 piOuS 1 thought
She was AN angel, but angels don't break
dogs legs. IN bet when she goes up TO
the gate and sees st. Peter open the
book and look for the charges against
her, she will Tremble a though she had
Tits. And when IT. Peter runs his fin
ger down the ledger, and stops at the
dog column, and turns and looks at her
OvCrhIs sltrIaClVs, aud SAYS: Madame,
how about your stahbing q poor dog
with y v-l9, p d., AMI breaking It's
leg - >ie WUl calm il was an accident.
But * cuI.t fool Pete. lie is on to
evtsl body = racket, and it they get in
there thry nave got TO have a clean
record
SAY, look a-here," said the grocery
man, a. me looked al the boy in aston
ishu,ut a. he unwuuud the haudker-
chief 20 dress the dogs broken leg,
whIie the dog looked up in the boys face
with au rxprt-siOn OF thaukfuluess aud
confluence that he was au able praCti-
toner iu G0- bUne-SettIng, what kind
oCtaik - that" You talk of heaven as
thCugI It's books were kept like the
books OF a grocery, and you speak too
raD-IiarIy OF ~. Peter"
"NciI, didn't mean any d~isrespect,"
said tie boy, - be fixed a splint on the
dog : lvs, aud tied il with a string, while
the deg licked his hand, "but | learned
in sunday school that up there they
watch erra the SparrOw's tall, and they
wouldn't be apt TO get left on a dog big
ger Ism a whole flock of SparrOws,
Especially when the dogs fall was ac-
con. panied with SUCH a noise as a Velo-
Ciptdc makes when it falls down stairs.
No. -.r, a woman who throws q velOci-
PED, al :, poor, homeless dog and breaks
IT. leg, may carry q car load OF prayer
books, and she may attend all the So
Ciables, but according to what have
been told, il she goes sailing up to the
gate of tn New jerusalem, aS though
. she owned the whole place, and expects
tote ur>Ire. ed into a private box, she
will get eft. The man in the box office
will tell her she is not on the list. and
that there is a variTty show down be-
low, where the devil is a star, and fall
en- lugrls are dancing the canCan with
sheet ron tights, on birthstone lakes
and she can probably crawl under the
canvas, but She can't get in among the
angelic hosts until she can satisfactorily
explain that dog story that Is told on
her. Possibly / have got a raw way Of
expressing myself, but l had rather take
my chances, If should apply for adj
mission up there, with this lame dog
under my arm, than to take hers with
= pug that hain't got any legs broke.
y lame dog and q clear conscience beats
= pet dog, when your conscience feels
nervous. Now i am going to lay this
dog in the barrel of dried apples, where
your cat sleeps, and give him q little
rest, and l will give you four minutes
to tell me all you know, and you will
have three minutes ON your hands with
nothing to say. CubuttOn your lip and
give your teeth a vacation"
well, you have got gall. However,
ldOn't know but you are right about
that woman that hurI the dog. Still, it
may have been her way Of petting 3
strange dog. We should try to look
upon the charitable side Of peoples
eccentricities. But say, | want to ask
you II you have seen anything Of my
man That delivers groceries. Saturday
night sent him over to your house to
deliver some things, about ten O'Clock,
and he has not showed up since. What
dO you think has become of him?n
well, by gum, that accounts for IL.
Saturday night about ten o'clock we
heard somebody in the back ward
around the kitchen door, lust as we were
going to bed, and pa was afraid il was
= burglar after the church money he
collected last Sunday. He had GOT 10
turn il over the next day. tn nav tbo
ministers expenses on his vacation. and
II made him nervous to have II around
Lpeeked out OF the window and saw tba
nan, and l told pa, and pa got a re-
yolver and began shooting thron0h tbs
wire screen to the kitchen windSw AMI
Isaw the man drop the basket ana he.
gin to CLIMB over the fence, and 7
went out and began to groan, az tbonyh
somebody was dying in the alley. and
/ brought in the basket with the mad.
erel and green corn, and told no tbo,
from the grooming out there | gusseJ bs
had killed the grocery deliveSv msn
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