The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-11-12

and two Of her caps were gone the very
first morning. Ever so Ions afterwards
we found them down In the tomato vines.
IL tied spot up where he could not do
any mischief ne howled until somebody
absolutely had SO unite him.
Grandpa said one day. locking straight
at Spot. "Spot. you are an utterly worth
less dos. m YOU do not turn over new
leaf shall be Obliged 10 dispose of YOU
spot was looking right I'm grandpa's face
when ne said that He snapped at fly,
but be went right ON looking at grandpa.
Miss peuugill came breathing fast into
the room just then. She is so fat she
brcathcs fast "a great deal of the time.
"Go away. you dreadful little dog" she
said. "I cannot bear dogs"
Spot looked so hurt in his feelings. He
lust got mp and walked right out Of the
room, and ] couldn't find him until after
supper. ne crawed 50 far under the
piazza. don't believe he came out again
that night
In the morning, before she came down
to breakfast, we heard Miss Pettingll
screaming. Everybody listened.
"My diamonds she screamed. My
! diamonds are gone. Has any one seen my
| diamondsf'
Spot pickod up his ears and turned mis-
| head sideways To listen. But he never
| said a single word.
Miss Petungin had beautiful, sparkling
rings and pins and bracelets Sometimes
! she used 10 let mo look at them and put
! them ON my fingers and my wrists. Then
/ she would put them back i'm a small black
/ box under the dressing table. The box
/ was gone. Every ole looked under the
! table but there was mo- box there.
Everybody looked under the bed and
/ in the closet but the black box was gone,
! and Miss pcttineil cried more than ever.
Spot went am about With U.s. but he
! never hunted anywhere. he just sat iii the
| middle of the floor with his tongue hang
/ ing ont and looked very silly
80 one could ina the black box, and
/ Miss Iauitrll didn't eat any dinner or
| supper I went out and sat ON the piazza
steps after That n Was very dis agreeable
/ iu the horse. spot came ana sat down
loside m5.
Spot . said. don't YOU wish Miss
po'tiugil could fnd her box? ID feels so
damp nm tine house when every one is
cr}lnC."
spot put his nose down on his two front
paws Z guess he was thinking about it,
spot / said. edo you know where that
black box is. Just because / wanted 90
have some conversation.
Spot stood mp aud stretched his iees and
opened his mouth and showed his tongue
down 90 the roots of it 10 was such q
long yawn. Then he jumped down the
steps ana craWlcd under the lattice-work
tad ] heard MIN scratching under the
piazza.
Spot was digging "a hole; the dirt few
through the latuce-work i'm quite a shower
When Le had finished ne CraWIed out
again and stood waggins his tail as much
q" lo say THAT was very Well done
indeed"
The police officers came the next day.
| spot parked at every one OF them. They
/ looked in am the rooms and in all the
closets, just where every one had looked
| before They wanted TO look i'm every
/ body.s trunk, and they asked Mary Ryan.
the cook, so many questions that she
cried.
Spot walked around behind the police
men everywhere When they opened the
closet doors he rushed in 10 look for rats.
When they pulled up the carpets he
helped and sneeZed dreadfuHy with the
dust. When the cook cried he sat and
beat his tail on the floor TO encourage her.
i never saw such an interested dog IN
my life. But nobody found the box.
Weeks and weeks went by. ever so
many; bat nobody found the box. Miss
Pettugil went home. 1t was a long way
off, but nearly every day She wrote grand
ma a long letter an about the diamonds.
"Oh. dear. grandma said one day. 81
do wish some one could md that black
boXi'
Spot and l were playing ball just a lit
ne while after. Spot catches splenddly.
This time the ban rolled away out of
sight under the piazza. Spot ran after the
ball. and 1 ran after him, under the piaz-
"a 1t was very dark there; / couldn't
see al an
Spot commenced scratching spot,
what are you about?' ] said. spots fore
legs were flying SO fast he couldn't stop
10 answer.
His head and shoulders were i'm a hole.
Then he came out with something in his
mouth. II was a box, the cover hung In
strips. and when Spot shook it something
ratified inside.
why Tye seen that box before" l
shouted. on, grandma. that's Miss Pet
tingilrs box, only it's melung!' Because
the cover was hanging In strips and the
clasps were very rusty.
When the box was opened every single
ring was there Somebody besides me
petted Spot then.
Spot had buried the box, and he found
it again. Don't YOU think he was a very
clever little dog? Miss Pettingul did.
She gave him "a gold collar, for she says
~ he did hide the box he found IL again,
and that's all she wanted. ana grandpa
never called Spot "a worthless dog
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