The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-12-25
ONLY A WOUNDED DOG.
The Influence OF a Humane Woman on q
Rough and Cruel Crowd.

1t was nothing but yelping street
cur. whose leo had been run over by
passing wagon. but it had a voice
pathetic and shriIl enough 10 wake the
dead, SAYS the COHgregatiOnattst.
Get OUT yelled man close TO
whom it passed. and le raised his cane
to chastise it for offending his ears with
such unearthly bowls; but the poor
brute only "ki-yi-d' the louder.
Scat cried booIbIack, swinging
his kit around the iamp-post after the
cur. Tie can TO its taii!' he yelled
TO some more boys, on second thought,
and off they scurried after the caudal
ornament, only pausing long enough to
shy a stone. which produced a new and
more discordant series of yelps.
..Why doesn't some one call the
police to shoot him?" Indignantly de-
manded a well-dressed lady, stopping
her ears to shut out the sound. Its
shame to allow such things" And still
the dogs cries of pain rang shrilly
down the street.
If some one only had sense enough
to give him dog-button, that would
soon quiet him." suggested a knowing
looking man with leather case in his
hand.
The drivers cracked their whips at
him from their seats; clerks ran out
and wildly gesticulatcd at him TO make
him stop; but still the eur limped and
yelped along the gutter-none Of these
things seemed worth a cent so far as
stopping his noise was concerned.
Then every body stood still and
stared at very unusual scene. A lady,
well dressed and refined in manner and
look, motoned the street boys nearest
her to stop yelling, and stepped quick
ly up toward the dog with soft, white
hand outstretched, and some soothing.
soft-spokcn words. The poor, fright
ened thing stopped, curled its tail be-
tween its legs, and cringed down nearer
the curbstone as if expecting another
blow. She spoke to it again, calling it
poor dogg!21 and various pet names,
until it turned its wistful eyes in mute
pleading and allowed her to put her
hand on it. Then she stroked it softly
and treasured it further while a boy
ran to near drug store for something.
She saturated her handkerchief with it
and bound up the dogs Lev. In a
moment the brute was perfectly pas
siye and had ceased even to whine.
She turned it over to the kind-heartcd
Irish jan;tor of the big Equitable build
inc. who had taken in the situation and
brought out box partly filled with
excelsior.
But before he could take it into the
basement the knowing man with a
leather case had changed his mind
about "dog-buttons, and saying that
he was doctor, offered his services to
set the broken bone; the lady who had
talked, of shooting the cur politely
rendered her own handkerchief to
brush the dust from the hands of the
dogs friend. the boys came back with
out the lin can, and, gathering around.
proposed to ''chip I'M and buy some
bologna for the patient; and every one
went away saying: We'll. declare, she
must be very fond of dogs, and quite
used to their ways, to be able to do just
the right thing so cleverly."
She had never kept Il dog in her life,
and was just the least Bit afraid OF
them; but she was the possessor of 4
| heart sensitive 10 the sufferings of the
meaneSt of Gods creatures as to hel
own, and her little act of thoughtful
humanity had stirred the better nature.
of those whose thoughtleSsness only
would have made them inhuman.