The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-10-14

open other tack an S1nOoltS ner down,
allowin' at Rip nd be vast better off
in t hills than down i Bengal, an twas
a pity he shouldn't so wheer he was so
well beliked. An soa he went on backin'
an film an worl1in' up t avid lass wal
she felt as if her life warn't worth nawt |
if she didn't heve t dog.
Then all of suddint he says: But /
We shall have him. marin, for I've feel
in heart, not like this could blooded |
Yorkshireman; but twill cost We not a
penny less than three hundher rupees"
Don't yo' believe him. num- says L;
1T colonels lady wouldn't TEX five hun
bred for him.
WHO said she would?'' says Null
vaney; Its not buyin' him, name, but
for the sake o this kind, good lady. I'll
do what never dreamt to do in my life.
I'll stale him."
Don't say steal" says Mrs. De Sussa;
'he shall have the happiest home. Dogs
often get lost, you know, an then they
stray, an he likes me an like him as |
niver liked dog yet, an | must hev
him. If got him at t last minute
could carry him off to Munsooree Pahar,
an nobody would niver knaw."
Now an again Mulvaney looked acrost
at me, an though could max nowt o
what he was after. l concluded to tax
his leead
well, mula l says, II never thowt
to COON down to dog steealin', but if my
comrade sees how it could be done to
oblige a lady like yo'sen, I'm nut t
man to hod back, tho it's bad business,
I'm thinlin', an three hundred rupees is
a poor set off again t chance O. them
banning islands as Mulvaney talks on"
I'll mex it three fifty" says Mrs. De
Sussa; "Only let me hev t dogv
So we let her persuade us, an she ticks
Rips measure there an then, an sent to
Hamiltons to order a silver collar again
t time when he was to be her avn.
which was to be t day she set off for
Munsooree Pahar.
"Sitha, Mulvaney," says l, when we
was outside. you're niver goin' to let
her hev Ripw
can would we disappoint poor old
woman says he. ''She shall havea Rip"
"An' wheer's he to come through
says l.
"Learoyd, my man." he sings out,
you're pretty man av your inches an
good cOmrade, but your head is made
av duff. Isn't our friend Orthris a
taxider1nist, an a rale artist wild his
nimble white finger? An what taxid-
ermist but man who can thrate
shkins? Do We mind the white dog that
belongs to the canteen sargint, bad cess
tohim-he that's lost half his time an
snarlin' the rest? He shall be lost for
good now; an do We mind that he's the
very spit in shape an size av the
! colonels, barrin' that his tail is an inch
too long, an he has none av the color
that divarsifies the rale Rip, an his tim
per is that av his master an worse. But
fwhat is an inch on a dogs tail? An
fwhat to professional like Orth'ris is a
few ringstraked shpots av black. brown
an white? Nothin' at all, at all.
Then we meets Orth'ris, an that little
man bein' sharp as u needle, seed his way
through t business in minute. An he
went to work practisin air dyes the
very next day, beginnin on some white
rabbits he had. an then he drored all
Rips marldn's on t back of a white com
missariat bullock, so as to get his and il
an be sure of his colors; shadin' off brown
into black as material as life If Rip hed
fault it was too much markin', but il
was strangely regular, an Orth'ris settled
himself to make fost rate job on it wheI
he got baud O t canteen sargint's dog
Theer niver was SIGH a dog as thot fol
bad temper, an it did nut get no better
when his tail he'd to be fettled an incl
an half shorter But they may talk 0
theer royal academies as they like.
niver seed bit o animal paintin' to bea
t. copy as Orth'ris made of Rips marks
wal t. picter itself was snarlin' all t. time
an tryin to get at Rip standin' theer t.
be copied as good as goold.
Orth'ris allus he'd as mich conceit OF
himsen as would lift balloon, an h.
woor so pleased wi his sham Rip h
wor for ticking him to Mrs. De Suss
before she went away. But Mulvane,
an me stopped thot, KNOWN Orth'riS
work, though niver so oliver, was mob
but skin deep.
An at last Mrs De Sussa fixed t. da,
for startin to Munsooree Pahar. w
was to tex Rip to t stayshun i a baske
an hand him over just when they wa
ready to start, an then she'd give us
brass-as was agreed upon.
An my wol! 1t were high time sh
were off, for them air dyes upon t cur
back took vast of paintin' to keep
rect cutler, tho Orth'ris spent matte
o. seven rupees six annas i f best droos