The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-07-01
How 1t Led to the Breaking of Two Ribs
and Five Score Images.

How II Led to the Breaking of Two Ribs
and Five Score Images.
Barefooted, with a tattered scarlet pet
ticoat for dress and long gold pendants
in her ears, fat Italian woman walked |
along the sidewalk before Trinity |
church about o'clock yesterday after
noon, with that peculiar gliding hip
motion which characterizes the gait of
all those who have learned to carry on
their heads such heavy weights as the
one she was balancing on the coil of her
shining black hair. This was large
wooden tray with a railing around the
edge, within which were packed fully
100 plaster of paris images, principally
Madonnas, Venuses and hali-nude fe-
male bathers.
AS she came opposite the monument
to the Revolutionary soldiers, large
Italian fox hound and its master came
on rapidly behind. The man, who was q
short, red-faced Englishman, with a
tight-ftting Jockeys skull cap on his
small round head, was connected with
the hound with light steel chain, one
end of which was fastened to the collar
and the other wound tightly around his
hand.
When they reached the monument the
hound, which was n splendid specimen
of his species, recognized the old familiar
odor of his native land. Upweht its ears
and down went its nose to the pavement
? as IL quickened its trOt and followed the
scent of the barefooted one ahead.I sd5tSs
. The Englishman was staring at the
Metropolitan bank ON the other side of
the street and did not notice these signs
of newly awakened memories in the
hound, which, as the scent became
I.tv tt,a1a N Ino., atI
ali, there, wotcher arter now?" he
exclaimed as he tried to grasp the chain
more firmly. But it slipped through his
fingers, and with nose close TO the side
/ walk the hound dashed forward,
straight after the red petticoat. In
=, another instant the hound had over
taken the image vender, and so great
> was its velocity that IL drove straight on
between her bare feet. With smoth-
!, cred shrek she threw up her hands, the
u tray trembled violently ON the coil OF
hair and then thel dog suddenly disap-
?, pearod, ms, with a crash, woman and
3 tray camedown TO the sidewalk.
The Englishman uttered a complex
Is oath, which would have made the in
Is habitants of Billngsgate turn green
and hurried forward to the disaster
- "Git yer blasted Eyctalian carcass
- h'ofl that ere dog, or ell be smuVerod,'
cried the man, as ne pulled desperately
ut the fat woman TO raise her up. Blu
r ~ she gazed at the headless Madonna
n and lcgless Nenuscs strewn around her
lt she sat there like ton weight anC
called on 10000 patron saints of Napol,
:, to curse the author of her ruin.
o, At last, with the help of two mossen
%, ger boys and II policeman and the eXhor
tations of the crowd, she was raised ul
u, on her feet, and there lay the foX-hound
!. gasping for breath, its tongue half sew
~ cred by its teeth and two ribs broken
al When its master, who knclt beside tn
i, dog, found this out, he sprang up with
howl of rage and darted mt the imag
vonder, who, with flashing eyes, an
" dilatcd nostrils, met him half way
> There was o very lively skirmish in tn
~ catch-as-catch can style for few me
o. monts, and then the combatants wer
~ separated by policeman and eac
II forced to "movo on" in opposite dire,
w tons the man with the wounded do
u, in his arms, the woman with the broke
W tray full of shattered images Me-
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