Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1895-07-13
THAT DOG NAPOLEON.
HE GREW UP WITH HIS YOUNG MAS
TER. WHO WAS FOND or HIM.

( hid Some Things Like All Dogs and 9TH
er Things Safidrs How He frightened
Aunt Chesterfield and Earned a Quarter
For Ills Owner.
paid man So for him when he was
linle puP-the dog, mean--and be
told me-the map did--that if would
treat him kindly and give him plenty Of
rorn bread-give the dog-he would
guarantee-tlie man would-that he
would grow up-the dog would grow up
to be an honor TO him-to the man.
Napoleon got TO be the largest dog
aud did it in the quickest manner of any
dog ever knew wore long curls at
that time, ! remember. into which boys
used tocast burs, which hurt me good
deal, especially when Napoleon would
take his claws and try to run them
through my locks, although the locks
never opened in that way. They were
combination locks, / suppose. and
didn't yet have my letters in my head to
set the combination ON. He also grew
very strong. Napoleon did, so that
found il difficult to keep him Mt home
unless tied him, and even then il both
cred me if another dog happened to be
going by Catching sight of that dog,
Napoleon would utter a glad cry and
bound over tho fence, utterly unmindful
Vt the rope or me nc the othor end of it.
Down the street he would prance, giving
vent to short banks and drawing tie at
tention Of people after him. also myself.
Neighbors coming 10 the windows used
10 marvel nc the black and white streak
we made in passing by Sometimes /
Wouldn't get home till long after meal
time, which in those days was quite
detriment to nae, though not to Napo-
leon, whose appetite soon became cele
brated throughout the whole town, for
when he couidn't set a pair of rubbers
or . fur mnG TO Stake the cravings OF
hunger he would 60 out and collect the
loaves OF brown bread that bakers had
left upon the adjacent stoops. Wouldn't
like to print the things that people used
TO say about him at such times.
We grew up together--at least Ma
poleon did, for he had two feet the start
Of me. We were inseparahle Neighbors
said they never saw anything more so,
but that was chiefly because couldn't
get the rope unfastened in time.
Ii was Napoleon's appetite that ulti-
mately accomplished his ruin, just as it
has many another mans. Aunt and IN
Gle Chesterfield came to visit us that
fall. They lived at Jay Corners, and
really ought never TO have gone any
where else, but there they were, getting
ont of the stage at our front gate, and
what could we do? ! heard father say
that to mother as they stood looking
ont of the window together. Uncle
Chesterfield wasn't really our uncle, You
understand, but Just AN old friend of fa-
Their ST. don't know how old, but he
looked every day of it, and more. We
called him uncle because he appeared
that way Aunt Chesterfield had tic
douloureuX, which used TO cause her to
make up the awfulest faces. realize
now that it was from pain, but at that
age used to laugh, whereupon she said
/ was wicked boy. She also had
brown wig and rheumatism. Uncle
Chesterfield didn't have anything but
just warts--I think i counted 70--and
Aunt Chesterfield But heard father
tell mother that was enough.
Mother put them into the spare cham
Der, where the old fashioned canvas bot
tom bed was with the white valance.
There We're also some green worsted
lamp mats on the bureau. We all
said good night, father wound up the
clock and everybody went to bed. / was
always a sound sleeper as boy, so you
must know that Aunt Chesterfield he'd
TO shrek pretty loud to get me out, but
she did it, and could have fetched me, l
think, if l had been dead. got right up
and ran into the spare chamber before
anybody could stop me-
Aunt Chesterfield was sitting in the
middle of the bed in a red flannel night
gown. / didn't know her at first, be-
cause her mouth was wide open, shrek
ing, and her face twisted with tic dou-
loureux, and the whitest, shiniest head
you ever saw, which l remembered with
copious locks of brown. But saw how
that was in a minute, for there was Ma
poleon over in the corner with brown
wig in his mouth, which he was tossing
and worrying and carrying ON dreadful
ly Uncle Chesterfield you couldn t see
q: first, but by and by you found him
with his legs stuck through the arms of
rocking chair, and every time he
moved Napoleon would growl, not being
acquainted with Uncle Chesterfield, and
he was almost scared to death.
They took the stage back to Jay Cor
ners the very next day. Mother was
dreadfully shocked, but | noticed that
father didn get excited
Il wonder who let that dog up
stairs?' hesaid musingly after the stage
was gone.
| intended to say that didn't know,
but got to stammering and mixed my
self up, and before l realized what i
was doing | blurted the truth right out
and said that did. Father gave me a
quarter didn't know what for. but i
supposed at the time that it was for
telling tho truth.
But the dog must go. he added
His appetite is growing too indiscrim
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So we sold him to-a man who kept
farm. and who soon afterward shot him
for biting calf on the legs. Napoleon
used TO do that to book canvassers when
he was with us, and nobody found any
fault with him, but ON farm it is diff
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