The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-02-04
THE PET DOG AND HIS DOLL.
A VERY sAeAolous LITTLE ANIMAL
Other Stories for the Young People-A Girl
Answers the Boy's Composition on
Girls-The self-Taught Boy
Knotty Problems.

is always Tilda; be wears his dolls out one
after another-loves them to death-but
when a new one replaces the old it is to
Boz the same Tilda-Tilda's soul in new
body. 1t is always a rubber body, and
when it is squeezed it expresses Tilda's
emotion by windy squeaks. | wish
photograph could show you how Boz
squeezes his Tilda in his mouth again and
again, with clock-like regularity for
minutes together, for the pleasure of hear
ing her squeak.
Boz never received any regular educa-
ton; he was never taught trick in his
life; he is an example of what travel. re-
fined associations and continual converse
ton with superior people will do for the
intellect, without direct instruction. l said
he was never taught trick, but neverthe-
less he knew how to sit up and beg. He
learned that from seeing his cousin Dotty
do it. Dotty received applause and It'd
bits for sitting up, and Boz thought he
would try it, be began sitting up-with
some difficulty at first-whenever he
wanted anything Now when he omits
that ceremony in makinghis requests, you
have only to say, "What would Dotty do ?"
and up goes the little square figure and
the little front paws dangle beseeching in
the air.
Boz great accomplishment is his re-
markable mastery of the English language.
OF course, owing to the great difficulties of
the pronunciation, he cannot speak it, but
l assure you he understands a very re-
spectacle vocabulary. | think l could
travel quite comfortably in any foreign
country whose languages | knew as well
as he does ours.
have known and admired several dogs
! in my life-dogs whose usefulness and
strength of character were greater, but
! have never known another with which it
was possible to enjoy such conversations
as you may have with Boz. If you say,
BOZ, where is Tilda?' up he jumps, and
stands, turning his head this way and that
as ne looks in your face. "Sure enough!
| Where is she?" he SAYS in pantomime.
! Then if you add go, find her; go, find
! Tilda. Poor Tildap' off he trots and looks
first in one place and then in another
! till he gets her and brings her back in
his mouth, holding his head very high
and triumphantly. Like other chill
dren he scatters his toys about sadly, and
sometimes In the summer at the seashOre
he will extend his search for Tilda to the
cottage of a neighbor whom he visits, and
| when he finds her there he brings her
home with especial pride.
Boz spends his summer season on Cape
| Ann, and on Cape Ann the children buy
taffy in sticks which they call BLACK
! jacks" Boz thinks black jacks are the
| most delicious things in the world. While
he was still puppy he learned the name
and would become frantically excited if
black jacks were mentioned before him.
To save him from the bitterness of di9ap-
pointment his mistress began spelling the
words when she discussed the
| question as TO whether or not
he should have one, but that
did very little good, ] assure you. In a
week Boz knew what black lack
spelt as well as she did, and would awaken
from sleep to practice eager Establishments
| il those letters were enumerated in that
order in his hearing. Nobody knows just
how Boz does understand. The other day
his mistress and l were together looking
over an illustrated journal; we comment
ed on this picture and exclaimed over that
without In the least disturbing Boz, who
was lying by us, but when | said "Oh, see
that little black poodle" Boz sprang up
and gazed wildly about for the intruder.
| No one knew till then that Boz recognized
dog under the name of poodle, so we
said. "See that poodle" and "Look at that
| poodle!" number of times during the
| day, and Boz again and again jumped up,
| shifted the air, rushed about trying to find
! that poodle: but at last he lost faith in rs,
! and only barked in our faces as much as to
! say that he did not believe we ever saw a
/ poodle, or would know one II we net 1T in
the road.
Boz knows number of dogs by their
| individual names. He takes great in
terest in them all, and is frantic to speak
to them whenever they come about, but
| he has his decided favorites. IF some one
looks out OF the window and says "Why,
| there is Majorp he banks and dances
about much more than if the remark had
been made about Jerry. But it is Ned,
! who comes with the grocer's wagon, whose
| society he covets most. He knows that
wagon as far as he can see or hear it.
! Before it comes in sight around the cor
ner he begins not to bark, but to cry, to
howl desperately, he is so afraid he won't
have a chance to see Ned. Every one
else NAV be mistaken as to the sound Of
that particular wagon, but never Boz.
am afraid some people might call Boz
a cry-baby. His crying is the most des-
perately woful sound | ever heard; II is
as if he were being murdered on the spot !;
and yet, as you see he cries about such
little things that if he were a well brought
up child he would certainly be spanked
for it. While have been writing this
Boz has misbehaved himself in most en-
gaging manner His mistress and L went
down to the rocks by the sea and settled
ourselves there with our reading and writ
ing for the afternoon. Boz went with us,
but he did not like it he never likes
those particular rocks, and, despite en-
treaties and commands, he went home.
After an hour or so he came back again,
staid a few minutes and again departed.
! About o'clock we heard fearful sound
splitting the air. We recognized the
voice OF Boz, and at last we saw him stand
ing on the top of the highest rock, howl
ing his heart out. He was simply insist
ing in that tragic manner that we come
/ home; he would not come down those
hateful rocks again, and he could not live
another hour without his mistress: she
must come to him.
That was what he was saying; and she
came.
A GIRL ON BOYS.