The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-02-04
DOYNES' WONDERFUL DOGS.

best-known places in the world, and
when a man Jumps over its parapet to
save fellOw-creature who is struggling
In the tideway below he is tolerably GER
tain to be well repaid for his exertion. His
bravery is Landed in the next mornings
papers he gets the Royal humane So
ciety's medal, and he is often hand
somely rewarded besides. There are
thousands of good swimmers in London
who would avail themselves OF a similar
opportunity. You'd do it yourself"
HIN, well perhaps should. But you
are taking rather a cold-blooded view of
the matter. There is some risk
'Of course there is risk" replied DIR.
Wane, rather contemptuously. There is
the chance of cramp, the chance OF bad
cold. There was possibility of the train
which brought you down here leaving the
track and crashing over an embankment;
but that does not make hero OF you for
coming to see me-"
What are YOU driving at ?'
"Simply this That there is a great
deal of rubbish talked about men making
heroes of themselves, when they are
merely encountering a certain degree OF
peril for their own self-advancement.
Now, in my idea that kind of selfshness
can never be linked to true heroism. For
instance, can see nothing heroic about
a lump from the clouds beneath para
chute, when the only incentive is money"
II am afraid you viii nearly always
find sordid motive of that kind at the
bottom, if you only probe deep enough"
Generally, grant you. But there are
instances to the contrary. A village doc
tor does not often see much beyond the
general routine; but, give you my word
for il, did once come across a real hero
Inc. Now what do you say to an hours
ecarte, and then to bed?
And Dr. Waue lit his pipe and appeared
anxious TO change the subject.
Tell me about your heroine first. Did
she pull some one out of the river here
and then run away without leaving her
nance"
Nothing so dramatic. / don't think
the story would interest you. Pass the
matches"
But nv curiosity was aroused, and after
q little pressing he consented to tell it to
me.
"Your train arrived" he said, Just after
the curtain had dropped, land the heroine
of the piece had gone off to take up an en-
gagement on another stage. Did you hap
pen to see a caravan, a dingy, yellow
painted house on wheels, as you walked
here from the station? 1t was In field
on your right hand"
'I can't say that did"
every likely not. 1t would scarcely
catch uOr1r avo N n aaS Won had lOoEpd for
il. Yet it lay there all the same, an aged
looking concern, with Doynes' wonderful
dogs painted on the outside. 1t is one of
the regular sort that 90 round to the fairs
and feasts in this neighborhOod, only per-
haps a trife inferior 10 most of them. 1t
was here about the middle of the summer,
when first L came to this place and out of
curiosity went tose il among the others.
There were Just about half a dozen dogs
NANCY mOngrels all, with the exception
of gray-muzzled collie-and they were
put through their PAGES by a girl who
seemed to run the show entirely by her
self She was my heroine"
Wane put his pipe into his mouth here
and struck a match as if to signify that
was all, but an expectant yes" from his
auditor limited to him to proceed.
"Well, he said, 81 noticed in MAY that
she was looking fearfully emaciated-half-
starved in fact; which wasn't to be Won
dered at, as there were not more than half
dozen others besides myself in the tent
and we only paid a penny apiece for the
performance. But week ago, when the
caravan passed through here en- route for
somewhere else, she broke down entirely,
and that was when l first found out all
about her. She is twenty-three now, it
seems-tWentv-three last week, and Just
L !, 4 l.
of doors. Poor child; she had had hard
life of 1t. She lost her own mother when
she was two, and her father married
again Then he died, and the wife took
on with collier, who had family of his
Own. Both of them ill-treated her abom-
inably; and finally, as have said turned
her out of doors. She didn't know where
10 90 to; she hadn't friend in the world
poor little mite, or a relation either, that
she knew of, for the matter of that; and
go she wandered out of the place, and sat
down and shivered on bank. Never be-
fore had she been outside the town of her
birth. 1t was night. and raining, and the
passers-by, OF whom there were few, never
noticed her. Not that she minded much !;
she was to numbed with misery for that
cold, hungry, wretched, and dulled with
despair.
Presently dog came and shifted at
her. Good sort of creatures, dogs, aren't
they-especially stray ones? You always
see them cumming up TO people who
are in trouble. Well, she patted the beast,
and when it's owner came by, he saw the
two OF them together.
"'Ullo,' said he-he was Doynes, by
the way-'What'er you a-doin' ere?
q Ion 'ome, wi yer.
Amt got no 'ome.'
COWS thatP
" Mothers turned me out, and she SAYS
she'll rive { cart out of me if goes back
AEGEAN. An she'll do it an ALL
Now, don't know whether Doynes
was moved by the idea that this was a
good opportunity to pick up a much-de-
sired assistant cheap, or by the child's evil
dent misery. should imagine the former.
But any way, he asked:
Will you come along wi meP
"On being answered Yes he slowed
Liz inside his conveyance, fed her, gave
her shake-down on the floor. and then
drove on. And that was how Liz became
enrolled among the exhibiting staff of the
performing dogs.
He was a happy-gO-lucky sort of chap,
this DOynes, never troubling himself par
ticulariy about anything, whether it was
business or pleasure, religion or honesty.
He drank when he felt inclined, some
times in moderation sornatiuao in