The examiner. (Hartford, Conn.) 1881-188?, 1886-08-28

A CANINE TRAGEDY.
The Sad Experience of Slender NnicHZ-
erbcclzer Maidens Favorite.
The New York Mail relates this pathetic


The New York Mail relateSthB pathetic
tale: A slender maiden, rather tall and
stately, with a Knicke1bocker hat and
white plumes shading her clear blue eyes
and regularly chiseled features came into
a store on Broadway, where every article
for sale is designed fox the adjournment of
dogs of high degree. A fragile silver
chain linked the young woman to half
poodled French Skye terrier, who seemed
fully resigned to the disfgurements of
fashion. With the exception of two saucy
tufts OF hair upon each shaven flank and
furry ball upon the tip of his tremulous
tail, the poor dog had left all his long
white silken coat abaft the fifth rib, and
he glanced around furtiyely now and then
to make sure that he was not walking
with the hind legs of some other dog.
He stood fully twelve inches high and
might have weighed fifteen pounds. His
huttering white ears, clean, oblong and
perfumed-like white silk handkerchief,
wiped sad tears from the end of his cold
little nose, and whenever his impefious
but affectionate mistress stood still he
sought to cover his nakedness by backing
into the folds of her dress. The stuffed
figure of a Siberian bloodhound, whose
crystal eyes seemed fastened upon his ex-
posed sirloins, added to his confusion.
"Have you any dog-collars?' inquired
the young woman, as she glanced at her
poodle with an expression that would have
lifted any of her young gentlemen friends
into the seventh heaven of happiness.
ayes, miss, we have about 700 varieties"
replied the young man behind the counter.
~ would like to purchase collar OF the
latest design for Pasteur," resumed the
young woman, with tones measured and
musical.
While Pasteur made friends with the
stuffed Siberian bloodhound, his propri-
etoress went into an aristocratic ecstasy
over the novelties in dog gear. There
were collars in bewildering variety, of
With critical judgment the fair connois-
seur selected a broad collar of heavy
tanned leather, studded with large brass
nails with frosted heads in pyramidal
form. A small barrel of mahogany with
hoops of solid silver, was fastened to the
collar by a silver bar, SO that it hung
under the dogs neck.
"This is the very latest design" said the
young man. "It is an imitation of the
way in which the St. Bernard dogs are
equipped with kegs of liquor for the re-
freshment of travellers who are lost on
the Alps. The price is twenty dollars"
Pasteur almost whined with despair
when the young man buckled this appa
ratus around his neck and he lifted his
chin with little jerks just as if he were a
young dude wearing his first cylindrical
collar. A twenty-do1lar gold coin changed
curiously at a show case filed with ar
rangements of leather straps, fastened
into triangular cubes and ornamented
with more brass nails.
"What are those, please" she asked
'tDog harness. said the young man and
he slipped Pasteur's white, fluffy head
into one triangle and buckled him inside
, Then he took another harness several
sizes smaller and adjusted it around Pas
tours pooled posterior. The astonished
dog had the appearance of having got
tangled up in a shawl strap. An embos-
sed handle joined the two sets of fore and
aft harness, and the young man seized
this handle and lifted Pasteur from the
floor. Then the creature howled. The
half of him that was pooled failed to
counterbalance the weight of his silken
locks and the St. Bernard collar and keg,
and the blood rushed to his delicate BRAIN
aPut him down quick Or he'll faint"
exclaimed the tall young woman, excited
for the first time.
Covered with confusion and brass-stud-
ded leather, Pasteur made a break for the
open door, swapping his chain. The en-
tire clerical force of the dog-harness store
scurried in his wake. Last of all the dig
nifed young woman forgot her purse that
lay on the counter and raised soprano
ssview-ha1loo.s,@ Past eur narrowly escaped
death in a hundred hideous forms, he
waddled across traffic-thronged Broadway
Before he was caught the silken, IN
pooled half of him was matted with
plebeian and mucilaginous mud. A police
man Lifted him by his handle and carried
him to the feet of his mistress. She said
s'Thank you," with q shudder at the con-
dition of her pc, hailed a passing hanson
cab, lifted Pasteur in at arms length and
was driven uptown with the point Of her
parasol keeping him at clearly distance.