The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-08-11
Tip and ROllO.


Tip is coach dog, and Rollo is a
Newfoundland puppy. Tips hair is
short and stright. Rollo's is long and
curly. Tip is brindle. Rollo is black.
Each has two white stockings and a
white shirt-front, and both have big
brown eyes. Rollo's twinkle and al
most laugh outright, but Tips are such
wistful eyes that little Nell's lashes are
always wet after she has taken long
look into them. Because poor Tip
wants to talk so much, and can't, you
know" Ned doesn't believe there
ever were two such splendid old fellows
outside of story-books. For Tip and
Rollo are real, live dogs, and that is the
best part of it, Tip is papa's right
hand man. He couldn't get along with
out him. Nor could mamma, for that
matter. When she wants anything
from the stores, she writes a note
and gives it to Tip. Then she tells
him exactly where to go, and no matter
where, he always knows and trots off.
He comes right back, too, and Rollo
doesn't every time. Besides, Rollo
will only go to one place-the butch
er's-and he eats up everything on the
eight miles out of town, but Tip car
ries messages back and forth summer
and winter Sixteen miles is long
way for dog to 60 alone, but Tip
makes the journey almost as quickly as
Dick, the horse, and has never lost a
note yet. Rollo doesn't like that kind
of business. He prefers to find Ned's
lost balls, fishingrods, school-books,
hats, or anything else. He takes good
care of Nell when she goes down on
the beach to wade, and more than once
has rescued her shoes and stockings,
floating out on the swift tide. Rollo
knows what money is, and fancies he
takes better care of it than papa does.
Once papa went into the grocer's to pay
bill. He put the money on the coun-
ter and hurried to his office. In few
minutes the store-keeper came run
ming in. "Come down and call off
your dog!" said he. " He growls at me
pretty savage every time l try to touch
those bills" When papa went down,
there sat Rollo, and he would hardly
come away. One day Ned carried his
shoes to the bootmaker's to be mended.
All the way home Rollo kept pulling
his jacket and trying to make him turn
back. AS Ned paid no attention to
him, Rollo rushed off alone. Pretty
soon he raced up with those shoes in
his mouth. When Ned took them back
again, the shoemaker said that there
was such scratching and barking out
side the door that he opened it, wher
a big dog flew past him, snatched W
the shoes, and was gone before hi
could say "Jack Robinson" Now
Tip doesn't do such funny things. HI
is such sober dog He would have
known that papa intended to leave the
money, and have understood that Nee
didn't want those shoes taken away.
little while ago papa went out to thu
pasture to catch two of the colts, anC
Tip went to help. When they hat
caught the first one, papa gave Tip thu
halter and sent him to the barn, two
miles away. 1t was some time befor,
the second colt was captured, but wher
papa led him into the stable the othe
was in his own stall, and in the mango
lay Tip, the halter still in his mouth
You see, papa had quite forgotten tina
dog couldn't tie knot. Rollo jus
enjoyed teasing Tip. Every mornin!
he used to follow when Tip drove tn,
cows to water, splash into the stream
and make the brook so muddy that tn,
cattle refused to drink. One day Til
rolled the scamp over upon his back an,
held him still with his heavy paw unit
the cows had finished. Rollo neve
tried that trick agan.-Y Youths Con,
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