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The sIeepless Dog.
Bill Me.

Dttt NJ re.
If there be one thing above another that
l revel in it is sciencer. l have devoted
much of my life to scientific research.
and though it hasn't made much stir in
the scientific world so far, | am positive
that when l am gone the scientists of our
day Will come and shed the scalding tear
over my humble tomb.
My attention was first attracted to in
somnia as the foe of the domestic animal,
by the strange appearance Of favorite
dog named LucreJia BOrgia. l did not
name this animal Lucretia Borgia. He
was named when l purchased him. In
his eccentric and abnormal thirst for
blood he favored Lucretia, but in sex he
did not. l got him partly because he
loved children. The owner said Lucretia
Bprgia was an ardent lover of children.
and l found that he was. He seemed to
love them best in the spring of the year,
when they were tender. He would have
eaten up favOrite child of mine if the
youngster hadn't left a rubber ball in
his pocket which clogged the CLOTHS
OF Lucretia till could get there and dis
engage what was left of the child.
Lucretla soon after this began to be
restless. He would come to my easement
and lift up his voice and howl into the
bosom of the silent night. At first |
thought he had found some one in distress
or wanted to get me out of doors and save
my lie. L went out several nights in a
weird costume that l had made up of gar
ments belonging to different members of
my family. / dressed carefully in the
the dark and stole out to kill the assassin
referred to by Lucretia, but he was not
there. Then the faithful animal would
run up to me, and With almost human.
pleading eyes, bark and run away toward
a distant ally. | Immediately decided
that 9 inf opino. 10.
read in books about dogs that led their
masters away to the suffering and saved
peoples lives, so when Lucretia came to
me with his great, honest eyes and took
little mementOes out of the calf of nv
leg and then galloped off seven or eight
blocks, | followed him in the chill air of
night and my mosaic clothes. | wander
ed away to where the dog stopped behind
livery stable, and there, lying in a shud-
dering heap on the frosty ground, lay the
still, white features of a soup bone that
had Outlived its usefulness.
On the way back l met physician who
had been uptown to swear in an American
citizen who would vote twenty-One years
later if he lived. The physician stopped
me and was going to take me to the Home
of the Friendless when he discovered who
| was.
You wrap a tall man with a VIM. III.
Seward nose in flannel robe, out plain.
and then put on a plug hat and a sealskin
sacque and Artic Overshoes on him and
put him out in the street, under the gas
light, with his trim, purple ankles lust
revealing themselves as he madlv gal
lops after drophobia-infested dog.
and 1t is not, after all, surprising that
peoples curiosity should bit be a little
excited.
After had introduced myself to the
physician and asked him for a cigar ex-
planning that l could not find any in the
clothes l had on, l asked him about
Lucretia Borgia. l told the doctor how
Lucretla seemed restless niphts and
nervous ana irritable days, and how he
seemed to be almost mental wreck,
and asked him what the trouble was.
He said it was undoubtedly ''insomnia.v
He said that it was a bad case of it. too.
l told him l thought so myself. l said
didn't mind the insomnia that Lucretia
had so much as l did my own. l was
getting more insomnia on my hand that
could use.
He gave me something to administer to
Lucretla. He said must put it in link
OF sausage and leave the sausage where
1t would appear that l didn't want the
dog to get it and then Lucretia would eat
it greedIly.
| did so. 1t worked well so far as the
administration Of the remedy was con-
cerned, but it was fatal to my little high
strung, yearnful dog. 1t must have con-
tanned something of a deleterious charac-
ter, for the next morning a coarse man
took Lucretia BOrgia by the tail and laid
him where the viOlets blow. Malignant
insomnia is fast becoming the great foe to
the modern American dog.