The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-09-26
ANNExKp BIZ THE TsAR.

ANNEXED BY THE TSAR-
BE was huge dog. and he stood by
the kennel, in old DIR. Gorham's back
yard, In an attitude of deep meditation.
There was one subject for dog-thought
lying right before him, and another lay
only q yard or 50 beyond the first.
The one was an empty ''muzzle" that
lay upon the grass, close by a couple of
well-picked bones. The second was an
equally empty steel collar, with 3
strong chain attached. The end of the
chain was hooked into staple at the
Tsar was o dog TO look twice at. His
father had been Siberian bloodhound
and his mother an English mastiff, and
DR.. Gorham would have trusted him to
pull down q wild bull or to ring q
church ben, If he could once have seized
with his massive Jaws the nose of the
one or the ringing-rope of the other.
Tsar made no audible remarks, but
there was no difficulty at all in divining
his medifations- -etFzt Ls.F
They have fed me an hour before
sundown, for some reason, and now
they've gone off and neglected me. No
muzzle, no chain, no master around,
and all the country left open to me. 1t
Is q state of affairs to which am not
accustomed at this time of day. If there
were another bone with meat on it, I'd
know exactly what to dc"
He put out q great paw and turned
the muzzle over. Then he walked for
ward and smelled Of the helpless collar.
Then he peered solemnly into the ken
mel There was q mystery about the
whole mstter, and it seemed to suggest
visit 20 the front gate That, too. was
wide open, rs witness to the haste re-
quired by the summons of the last pa
6ent, and Tsar could therefore walk
out and look up and down the shady
road for an explanation of his own case.
He could not see any, at first, for there
was nothing to be learned from q flock
of geese, three hens and one stray calf.
The very pig that was roofing under the
walnut-tree paid him no manner of at
tention.
Tsar shrugged his broad shoulders to
make sure about the collar, paved his
nose for moment in memory of his
muzzle, and turned for q look at the
gate. There it was, with very dingy
old tin sign on one post, whose faded
letters read "Dr. HebeR Gorham," and
with q very new tin sign on the other
post, whose bright, fresh gliding an
nounced "Dr Heber Gorham, Jr.," as
also ready for patients.
That was all right, and it occurred to
Tsar that q walk would be good for his
health He acted on the suggestion
promptly enough, but with dignity, as
became dog Of his size; and no voice
from the house recalled him, as he
marched away down the road toward
the sea A sniff of salt air would be
5ust the thing for his digestion, after the
hearty dinner he had eaten at the ken
The sun was getting very low toward
the horizon, and vet, away down there
on the rock at the head of the cove q
curly-headed young lady of nineteen,
or thereaboufs, was stin seated, bend
1nQ over q portfolio spread across her
Dap. From time to time she cast anx-
fous glances from the lines she traced
upon the sheet of Bristol board under
her hand to the more and more shadowy
island, lout there in the mouth of the
cove.
s,ssThat win do,s she said. cit looks
bigger than the boat, now, but it isn't
big enough for the tree. / must make
the tree smaller; the cows back, too
it's half as long as the island. There
As always something dreadful the matter
with my waves.n She worked at the
waves for . few minutes. ss1f / had
time, I'd try to put in the sunset. Deal
,me. how late it is 1t viii be almost
dark when get home. 1t gets dark
90 quickly, nowadays, after it oncs
She rose q little hastily, but she gave
the island very long, last look, as she
closed her portfoloelong enough fol
4, bysfander. TO, have, read her name. in
Gilt letters. on the leather cover-..Per
Gle Lee" But no one was there to read
for q lonelier spot than that it woulc
have been hard to find, however vel
adapted it might be for the making o
marine sketches
Percie was in the road in half min
ute more, and she could but see that tn
shadows were lenethening rapidly. Sh,
beyond Dr. Gorham's, but 1 won't min;
It from that to the village. do hop
I shall not meet Heber Gorham.
viii not speak to him If I do. 1 won
even see him. He has not called sine
he came becF from Furone- and hon
Re raver will aoain r detest him -
She said II with needless ENERGY. an,
then she began to walk briskly onward
She tried bsrd- too 10 persuade hersel
that she Uas onlv wondering whether
IN her sketch. She had made the horn
Of the cow bear 4 proper proportion Z
the upper branches of the tree on tn
;slend she vas really almost tb;nkin
zincerelv about the cow. and the cor
.Ione wben she suddenlv felt calle
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