The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-28

LITTLE CHILD LEADS HIM. 80
meat. Threats anda persua sions were
alike unavailing. aud at last the Man
Who Knows It Allleur red in despair to
the butchers boy.
Take back your. meat" said he,
land give me my ha L; dollar"
Nav said the boy; Il can buy
cheaper'n that. ca u get piece jes'
like it for thirty c. anywhere. viii
yer take thirty?"
You young rascal, I'LL"
''Give yer thirty-five |" said, the boy,
keeping at safe dist ance with great
discretion.
IF get hold of you ~
But he didn't. The Boy had long
lead and was gaining Swhen he van
ished around corner.
Then there appeare' aiupon the scene
a doctor who had bee watching from
his office window acr oss the way. He
had large silk handkerchief in his
hand.
Il will put1this handkerchief around
his lower Jaw" said; the doctor .'and
then / can lead, himI,vVivvh ease and
safety"
How yer goin Stertgitxhim ter open
his mouth?" sug;sesteds ia boy in the
crowd.
Don't you worry, about sthat," said
the expressman whoulad lost his coat
sleeve. He'll open hi; mouth all right:
the trouble will comekHhenhe shuts it.
The doctor was {. brave man and he
got into the vagon'wittsout hesitation.
There was just room enough for him
and Leo and the kennel
Leo elevated his upper lip. He kept
right on raising it. The lip went up
like a curtain in theater, and the
scene it disclosed wasN all teeth. The
doctors mind was slig htlysdecomposed
by this spectacle. In fact he could
think of only one thing and that was
the problem: How is it Spoasible for
dog with such large teeth to have so
many of them? There tppearedito be
hundred or more on each jaw The
doctor stood there and tt.oughtS about
it.
Meanwhile half dozen of the,bolder
spirits in the crowd had been SO inter
ested in the doctors experiment that
they had climbed up on thessides of the
wagon. Leo heard them all around
him. He is dog with an ,exceptional-
ly mild disposition. but there is limit
to his patience, and that limit was
reached at the moment in question.
Leo was in condition ito bite for busi-
ness. lie opened his mouth TIL it
looked like the entrance of cave. and
every hair on his body stood up
straight as nail.
Then the air seemed to be tfull of
tirely around the wagon, for fallt the
men on its edge had gone off'heatlfrst.
Nobody was bitten but everyhody'was
satisfied. The dog could keep the
wagon if he liked it; he could have
it all.
Just then there appeared Mr..
Clarke's youngest son. Taylor
Hello" he said: 'Leo's come
Don't we go near him." said the
crowd.
Nonsense" said Taylor who's
scarf of old Leo? He won't bite any
body"
He climbed up over the,wagon wheel
and nobody could stop him. Every
body drew long breath. Taylor, be-
tween two slices of bread, would not
make a sandwich for Leo. and the
chances that the dog, lin his present
frame of mind. would recognize the |
boy, seemed'very small.
But when Taylor had got into the
wagon, good old Leo put out his |
tongue-which is as big as snow |
shovel-and licked the boys face and |
hands with every indication of delight.
Then Taylor jumped down from the
wagon, and the dog followed him. |
They moved toward the house in
lane formed by the heelsof,people who |
were getting out OF the vay. They !
had more room than the Columbian /
land parade. and. Leo could, have had
twice as much by simply asking for it.
THE expressmen couldn' make him
get down said Mrs. Clarke. when her /
son and Leo were safe in .the'house.
What do men know about nanaC-
ing a dog2' said Taylor 1t takes
boys for that" HowARD,F HLDLyG.