Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-10-02

man, an ! know the right kind when !
$50 tAeln. he never let on for one mo
ment. tiough. single word about him
self bar onee al thai was the last even
Ia he was here.
The dog was sitTin beside him. with
his head resIin ON Roberts knee. when !
says, kind Of snddealike:
- bet Raiph's very vallyols dog.
Robert
Yes, yes be says, sort q slow.
Too yallyble,' stroking Ralph's head
with lovin hand, while the dog looked
al him with just as much love. Twas
the hRnlanesf eyes you would ever see.
sir.
Hes worth great deal Of money,
he said again, after moments rhinkin-
i am very sorry for il sometimes I've
been in many hard straits at tInes, an
I've been sfraid-aye, afraid Of myself
that I'd be tempted 10 sell him Not
while was myself, old fellow, you IN
derstand, bat when i was the brute
sometimes am
by George. siri You wouldn't believe
it, dare say, but I'd take my sffydsvy
that dog looked up. sort Of sadlike, and
shook his head.
ITO make the story short-though, al
told, II was not 50 very long-when We
came down stairs the next morning
Ralph lay on the floor guardin his mas
ter's stick. bs his master wasn't no
where round.
Tell me the dog didn't knowl He
knew as well as we did why il was done;
that the master he loved an who loved
him had left him, but he had been told
TO watch the stick, an with the saddest
eyes an droopin he lay there al day
long. An / truly believe If we hadn't
got the stick away from him and burned
II he'd a been watchin 1t yet.
IAN his master: Yes, sir; gone
clean gone. An we've never heard a
word Of him since. Ungratef4l; No,
sir; don't take ii So Think be couldn't
trust himself with the dog he loved,
when he was himself, you see, an so be
left him where he knew he'd be well
taken care of. Yes, that's - way see
it anyhow. An then he gotub far away
before the dog would quit watching that
the scent was lost for poor Ralph. But
he amt never give up. Not day, sir.
do? Well, there's not q tramp
comes past here-an the worse looking
they are the wilder he is TO get after
them. sniffin at their tracks. and then
his tail viii drop SO disappointedlike,
yet he'll keep on an follow 'em for a day,
or maybe three days, till he gets sure he
amt comm 10 his master, when he'll
come back. Seems TO me as il he kind
Of thought they might know him How
does he find out they don't? Bless you,
sir, don't ask me, but dogs know heap
more than people think.
"He ought a been named Rover, for
he's been in more different places round
here than have an always turns up all
right when he's settled the matter.
"Why, amt that him now, a-sniffin
along the other road? OF course IL is.
Well, now, how'd he got over there,
wonder; seems as if ne was scentin
somethin, don't il?
Hi, Ralph! Ralph! All! there he
comes, a-boundin along towards US just
as he used to go for his master. Looks
as if he thought he could find him, sure.
See, now. Amt he beauty?
Here, Ralph! Good old fellowl Come
here. sirl Eli! What Straight for you,
sir, he's gone, without a look for me.
All over you in minutel A fine gen
tleman like you! What! you, you. sir!
Robert. Great Scott An Ralph knew
you! Well, well; l give in. Dogs is
humant"-M. Warren Hale in Pittsburg
Bulletin.