The old Abe eagle., 1895-04-18
THAT DOG.
The Story of Napoleon and How He Met
Ills Waterloo.

His Waterloo.
paid n man 81 for him when he was
little pap-the dog, l mcan-and he told
me-tde man did-that II would treat
him kindly and give him plenty Of corn
bread-give the dOR-he would guarantee
the 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 and
did 1t In the quickest manner of any dog
! ever know. wore long curls Mt that
time / remember, into which boys used
to cast burs, which hurt me n 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. IIo also
grew very strong, Napoleon did, so that /
! found 1t difficult to keep him at home
unless tied him, and even then 1t both
cred me II another dog happened to be 60
| ing by.
Catching sight of that dog, Napoleon
would utter glad cry and bound over the
| fence, utterly unpindful OF the rope or
me at the other end OF it. Down the street
be would prance, giving vent to short
barks and drawing tho attention of the
people after him, also myself. Neighbors
coming to the window used to marvel at
tho black and white streak we made in
passing by.
Sometimes l wouldn't get homo till
long after nealtime, which in those days
was quite detriment 10 nae, though not
| 30, ho
| came celebrated throughout the whole
town, for wien lie couldn't get a pair Of
rubbers or n fur muff to slake the Qnaw-
ing of hunger he would go out and collect
the lonvcs of brown bread that bakers had
left upon the adjacent stoops. Iwouldnt
like to print the things that people used
to say about him at such times.
! We grew up together, or at least Ma
polcon did, for he had two feet the start
Of me. Wo were inseparable. Ncighbors
said they never saw anything moro SO,
but that was chiefly because l couldn't
get the rope unfastened i'll time,
1t was Napoleon's appetite that ulti-
mately accomplished bis ruin, just as 1t
has many another mans. Aunt and Tn
Gle Chesterfield came to visit us that fall.
They lived at Jay Corners and really
ought never to have gone anywhere else,
but there they were, getting out of the
stage at our front gate, and what could
we doY
heard father say that to mother as
they stood looking out of the window to-
gether. Uncle Chesterfield wasn't really
our uncle, you understand, but Just an
old friend of fnther's--I don It know how
old. but he looked every day of it and
moro We called him uncle because he ap
peared that way.
Aunt Chesterfield had tic douloureux
which used to cause her to make up the
awfullest faces. realize now that it was
from pain, but at that age | used to laugh
whcrcupon she said was a wicked boy
She also had brown wig and rhcuma
tsm Uncle Chesterfield didn't have any
thing but just warts--I think l counted
70-and Aunt Chesterfield But l heart
father tell mother that that was enough.
Mother put them into the spare cham
Der, where the old fashioned canvas bot
tom bed was with tho wl.ito valance
There were also some green worstod lamI
mats on the bureau. We all said guot
night father wound up the clock and ev
crybody went to bed.
always WAS a sound sleeper rs boy
so you must know that Aunt Chesterfield
had to shrek pretty loud to get me out
but she did it and could have fetched me
l think, II l had been dend. got righ
up and ran into the spare chamber befor'
anybody could stop me.
Aunt Chesterfield was sitting in tb,
middle of tho bed in n rcd flannel night
gown. didn't know her at first, because
her mouth was wide open, shrieking, anC
her face twisted with tic doulourcux, ant
the whitest, shinest head you ever saw
which remembered with copious locks o
brown.
But saw how that was In minute
for there was Napoleon over In the corne
with brown wig in his mouth, which HI
was tossing and worrying and carrying OF
dreadfully
Uncle Chesterfield you couldn't sec a
. first, but by and by you found him will
his legs stuck through the rounds of
rocking chair, and every time hc movet
Napoleon would growl, not being nc
qusinted with Uncle Chesterfield, and h,
was scared almost to death.
They took the stage back to Jay Corner
the very next day. Mother was dreadful,
l
excited.
Il wonder who let that dog up stairs?'
he said musinRly after tho stage was gono
intended to say that didn't know
but got to staunmering and mixed my
self up, and before | realized what wa
doing blurtcd the truth right out ant
said that did. Father gave me quarter
didn't know what for, but supposed a
the time that 1t was for telling the truth.
But the dog must 60 " he added. Hi
appetite Is growing too indiscriminntc.
So We sold him to man who kept
farm, and who soon aftcrwnrd shot hin
for biting "a calf on tho leg Napoleon uscC
to do that TO book canyusscrs when b.
was with Us, and nobody found any faul
with him, but on farm 1t Is different. =
W o Fuller, Jr., la Rockland me
Tribune.