Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-11-20

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JUPITER TO TIE RESCUE.
She said nothing TO her mother about her
unhappiness. She was unselfsh enough
not to wish her mother 10 he worried about
anything Ethel mad noticed that she
looked younger and happier since sne had
heard from her brother. She went about
her work singing, and her face was bright
with expectant happiness; and she did not
have long TO wait, for the visitor cana
several days before he was expected
He was a big man, with merry, gray
eyes, a brown beard, ard voice that had
ring Of kindness. He brought dog with
him, huge mastiff, of which lie was ve;y
fond. Mr.. Carroll took up his abode in tho
cottage as if he belonged there, and the
dog, who was named Jupiter, was chained
out on the little dried patch of lawn over
which the sultan had reigned alone. The
dog and turkey sccr struck up friend
shif, AID ate together out of one dish with
perfect good fellowship.
The Yokohama uncle and his dog had
not been long ut the cottage when the
preparations for the Thanksgiving feast
were begun. Mrs. Sequn said the time
had come for the turkey TO be killed. As
she was altogether too soft-heartei a wo-
man to perform this operation herself, and
as she was unwilling to ask her guest TO do
ii, she told Ethel to request their butcher
to send his boy to kill the turkey. Then
she went back into the parlOr to talk to
her brother, and Ethel was left alone
She put on her hat and cloak very slow
IL La.. An Al
was great lump in her throat. 1t was
bad enough, and sad enough, TO love old
Sultan without being compelled to give the
order Of the execution. She went down
the street at a pace very unusuG! for
healthy child Her feet seemed heatie-
| even than hey feaIt, and her steps were
drearily reluctant.
Her eyes were red and swollen when she
| went into the butchers shop, and her voice
was unsteady: Everybody there was very
busy, for the approaching holiday had in
| creased the butchers sales There were d
lot of common looking fowls hanging up
about the shop, but the few feathers re-
manning on their wings We're gray, and it
was plain TO be seen that none of them had
ever looked like the gallant sultan. Ethel
priced one of them, aud the butcher said it
was one dollar and n half. Poor Ethel
She had been saving her pennies for nearly
year, and yet there was only seventy-five
cents in her tin savings bank. That was
only half enough to buy turkey and to
save poor Sultan's life.
Just at dusk the butchers boy came up
the walk. Ethel saw him and her heart
sank at the sight. Sultan's hour had come
| The boy had no sympathy for either the
girl or the turkey. He was very fat, as
butchers boys are wont to be, and he was
both vulgar and provoking. He had heard
Ethel offer her services at the shop, and
had been eXquisitcly amused at her propo-
sition. Now he laughed and ieered at her
She had had q vague idea of beseechng
him TO chloroform the turkey, TO make
his visit as painless as possible, but she
gave ur this imrract'rab,B idea at uuce
She know that it would be useless to make
any appeal for mercy to the butchers boy.
he would delight in plaguing her. He
would fairly reyel in Staying old Sultan be-
fore her eyes
OF course he had first to catch the fowl,
Sultan was so tame and SO well trained,
that he would come when his name was
called; but the boy knew nothing of tho
birds great sagacity, and he did not cali
him. Instead, ho chased the turkey about
the yard. The bird could not Hy, for ond
of his wigs had been clipped, but he
could run, and he gave the boy a lively
chase. Sultan had at last forgotten his
dignity The boy was too fat to be a good
runner, but he made the best time possible
TO him, racing over the little lawn around
the kennel, and over the frozen flower
| beds. Ethel could not watch the chase.
She had covered her eyes with her hands
and was sobbing violently. Around and
around went the turkey, and around and
around went the boy And now the turkey
Is cornered, ana now he is caught
All this while nd ono had noticed Jupi-
ter who had been growing until his tones
were almost as deep and terrible as the
roar of lion, and who had been jerking
away at his heavy chain, in a mad attempt
TO break it. The dog was powerful ami
NAL, but the chain was too thick for even
his strength. He saw his friend, the tur.
key, chased all about the yard and captur.
cd and the sight enraged him. He made
one mighty, final plunge and tore the iron
staple TO which his chain was fastened out
of the fence. Then no was free. He
knocked the butchers boy down in mo.
ment, no doubt installing him for thief
He would have killed him IL Ethel had not
suddenly thrown herself upon the dog and
shricked for him to leave the hoy alone
The dog obeyed her, but not before an &c.
cident had happened. In his attempt 10
seize the boy he had caught Bthers hand
in his Jaws and bitten it,
|
When Thanksgiving morning dawned
Ethel was recovering from the effects oil
her accident She had told her mother all
about the turkey, all about her offer to the
butcher, and all about Jupiter's attempt t.
rescue Sultan. Her mother had understood
her readily, and had grieved over hen
trouble, and her poor little mutilated hand
Sultan hadn't been killed after all, fol
the fat boy had left the yard with very
commendable speed when he discovered
that the dog had released him, and nothing
less than miracle would have induced
, that boy TO enter that place again.
He had told his father how cOurageously
Ethel had come TO his rescue, and how he
hand had been bitten. At first the butche
: had been furious because Mrs. Sequin ha,
p such an animal as Jupiter about her place
but later he did not blame her or the do,
so severely. He even made Ethel u presen
Of the very turkey she had priced in. hi
shop. Then Mrs. Sequin told Uncle Bryc
The Thanksgiving dinner.was a grea
success. Uncle Bryce had learned more o
his sisters circumstances through tn
accident, and he paid for the feast and sh
) cooked IL.
, Uncle Bryce had saved little surpris
for their holiday He said that he was no
visitor, but that he had come there l.
stay. There would be no more pinchin
poverty in that cottage, for he had none
{ enough TO keep all OF them comfortably
] He said he would take care of Ethel an,
: her mother as long rs he lived. And thel
2 he said that they all had great cause 70
, thankfulness. They had been kept apar
for long while, and now were united
r Ethel and her mother had found some on
5 TO protect them and care for them. and h
q had found n bright little home and tw
loving hearts. He said that great ma
named Edmund Spencer had written tina
"thanlfulncss is the tune of angels
4 After the day was over our little girl fe
0 asleep, as happy and grateful "a child a
, ever ate thanksgiving dinner.
, And the white turkey on his low perc
nodded sleepily toward his friend the dog
aud who knows that he wSs not gratefu
fnng