The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-01-27
DOYNES
WONDERFUL DOGS.
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CHASTITY paleness.
d" No, e amt dead, Liz answered Dolly
Bobs, in response to her inquiry; AN
mebbe e wont type out fer yeres EFF 'e's
properly tended on, doctor says. Nah thee
get thee gone to my ole woman, an we'll
tax i'm inr
But Liz refused. Lift him up she
said, an then 90, please. 'E's used ter me,
is Doynes. I'll sit up an watch And she
insisted, and they Obeyed.
I'm the morning new trial awaited her.
A great country boor knocked at the door,
and she answered it He, too, had been en-
Toying himself over night, and he wasn't
! sober even then.
lave coined fer thee he remarked
with a malty leer.
Liz naturally did not understand. and
so the brute explained that Doynes had
| sold her to him the night before for twelve
! shillings and a bottle of whisky.
! but Pm not his to SELL replied Liz,
as quietly rs she could. Besides. he was
| drunken, and got Almost killed last night
lar care note abaat that exclaimed
this interesting person, with good deal OF
! bad language leveled at the head of the in
| jured Doynes; ar wants thee; an as ar've
! paid fer tha', arm balm ter ave thai And
! he tried to clutch her wrist
"'Listen,' said Liz Ana those black
| eyes OF hers shone so fiercely that the fell
! low took a step or two backward involun-
| tarily. y GU see all these people abOut?'-
waving her hand toward the show folk,
| who were packing up-'they're all my
! friends. If l calls 'em and tells EN- what
you're wanting they'll kick t life out on
yer. And that's a true. But l don't want
'em TO know as 'e'-with backward mol of
her dsheveled head, to indicate the invisi-
BILE Doynes-' 'ad anything to do wi this
yer; an so I'll stan to quid if you'll clear
out quiet
Hand out, said the woud-be husband,
laconically, and as Liz had luckily got the
receipts of the last nights performances
still by her, she did so. and got rid of the
difficulty. Then she fed the dogs, who
were calling noisly for their breakfasts,
an putting on her hat hastened off to the
doctors.
I want you 10 tell me square out what's
the matter with Doynes,' she said.
Thinking it would be kindness not to
mince matters at all, the doctor told her
that he was completely paralyZed in the
lower limbs, and would always remain so !;
that with careful nursing he might live for
years, but that nothing could ever make
him walk again.
Had lie any reations|
"'No.'
"'Or friends who would take him?'
No; he's nobody but me-
oh, you are hiS-er-er-daughterY
"'NO.'
All! beg prdon-wife?'
"Humph! Sister. then. and,
49, 40, not even sister said Liz with
slight confusion. There's nothin' atwlxt
us at sll. We'se iust-frens.'
Then, my good girl, you had better
send him to the workhouSe.'
No, I'm blest if | do said Liz, and she
bounced out of the room and slammed the
| door behind her.
Well, there was a nice kick-up among
the show folks when it was announced that
! Liz was going to keep the helpless DoyneS
with her and not pack him OF, as prudence
| dictated, to the tender care of the Pauper's
Mansion. Mrs. Dolly BJbs, who slept and
lived in the same small compartment with
| two grown-up sons and a daughter besides
| her husband, said it wasn't decent the
landlord OF the inn, who had fingered much
Of Doynes money, and so spoke as an old
| friend, perhaps, really thought the 'Ouse
was good enough for the likes o it-mean-
ing DOyneS-and said so to every one who
was curious on the point; and the parsOn,
too, q pasty-taced young fool, who hadn't
been ordained three years, came and eX-
h0Ited her TO the same effect; but Liz was
losing patience, and was distinctly rude to
him.
'She staid at the place where the accident
had happened for little over a fortnight
and tended Doynes with the utmost delicate
care, although, when speech returned, his
groans OF seli-pity would have driven any
one else distracted; and as by that tune she
had sold everything that would sell except
the dOgs-the eXchequer was empty to start
with-she harnesSed the old horse in the
shafts and started of to the nearest fair,
which was luckily Tot many miles away
Thanks to Doynes' previous laZiness, she
was quite capable Of doing everything by
herself, and she declared to me that this
new era OF her lie was not au atom harder
than the one which went before In fact
she said it was easier. because the knowledge
that Doynes wanted little comforts which
cost extra money, made the getting of il
seem lighter.
: go course she told me, with mis-
chievous flash of those black eyes Of hers.
o course, vlttles is dearrr now, cause !
amt S andy at pickin' up things as e was
but then, when we gets 'em my way we
ken eat 'em when we likes, an don't ave
to bolt 'em in hurry Lord! | mind i'm
an me an the dogs VIOLIN a goose in ten
minutes once, an none too soon, neither, fer
they come TO look fer it whites we was a.
plckin' our teethsp
Winters were the hardest times; the
first one especially. 1t was difficult to lay
by any money for the hard season, and more
dlfhcult still to earn any in it. Liz would
sometimes get an odd siXpence or perhaps a
| shilling by doing a bit Of washing or baking
but these wlndfalls were p1ecarious
Dwellers in cities don't like Ismaelites, and
all respectable people fight shy of a young
woman that lives with man who is no re-
lauon to her.
But, as Liz said, in her bright, CHEEKY
way: We allus worried through some ow;
an II DoyneS didn't get is poort, e never
went wi'Out q sup o. beer
J She starved herself to let Doynes have
luxuIes.
And so things went on till last winter.
winch, as you know, was an exceptionally
hard one; and then troubles came down
upon them thick and fast. The horse-a
sorry beast-died, and with him passed
away steady source of income; the clever
collie-not the one which found ner origin
ally, but his Successor-was poisoned, and
he was tho best dog Of the troupe; the cara
van-which was very old and rotten-began
to leak badly all over, and they could not
AFFORD to get it satisfactorily repaired, though
LH did all she could with painted canvas
aud TIN tacks; Doynes got very feeble and
slcKly, ana required constant nourishment
ana attention; there was a strike in the
helghoorhood, and consequently no work to
We obtained; and finally Liz herself con-
Lacteu cough which racked her continu-
9li9; anu lnaie her, as she expressed it, as
iona, an feeble, an doddery as a newborn
pup u
; II was terrible struggle that winter ;
anu when spIlng came Liz carried the
MARKS OF II clearly Her black eyes were
more brilliant than ever, and her once
healthy brown cheeks were now suniIen
and redeemed with dangerous hectic flush
She hired horse for the road-a piebaId
beast belonging to Van Davey's American
Cirque which necessitated her always fol
lowing in the wake of that equestrian exhibit
ton, and made large hole III her own tax
But she said, with a feeble attempt at
the old cheerfulness, luck was down. The
tent was dirty and patched, and my props
was very much the same, an though might
bawl mysel' 'oarse outside, an say as
Doynes' wonderful dogs was wonderfuler
nor ever, most people 'ud take me al my
word, an only few 'ud come to see il it
was, was 50. AM when they did come inside,
s snny only larf, or may be get riled at the
was willin' enough, most Of 'em, but they
seemed to a lost their brains. Doynes ed
a hxed EN- right enough; g wor clever VII