Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1895-03-28


BILL HENDERSON.
Keene Center,
Adirondack
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The crowd on the store porch waiting
for the mail to be sorted looked the
newcomer over and expressed their sew
eral opinions as to his breed. Some
"calated he had shepherd In him."
and others swan he hadn't"
''See that; haow he hobs that head Of
his'n," said Israel Lukens, an old hunt
er, peering into the crate. "Hello thar,
Long Lega, haow goes it?-hungry, be
yep and the puppy licked the old mans
hand.
What 70 got in TIARA lion9"
shouted Alfred Hammer from the road,
on his way to the lumber shanty.
BY this time the mail was sorted, and
the crowd scuflled into the store. A
kerosene lamp sent long shadows sour
rying over the low ceiling and diffuscd
q mellow light half way down the
counter, at the further end Of which
was strewn a tumbled assortment Of
lumbermen's shirts and some old pairs
Of children's boots, the remnant OF the
winter stock Great drifts Of blue to-
bacco smoke Aoated lazily toward the
lamp and, ascending, were lost In the
shadows.
The puppy, left alone on the porch,
heard the laughter and the voices Of
the men inside, and began to whine
When realizing that this only added to
his loneliness, he cooked his head and
looked up at the stars and the great
range sleeping clear out against them
He could hear the roar OF the river as
1t swung through tho valley, and far
down the road the baying Of the hound
Then came the sound Of wagon clat-
tering along and the next instant Bill
Henderson refined In his team and called
out
"Dop here for aouy folks2"
The door WIS opened by the post
master.
"Some Of NV womern's relatives
daown In Fort I'll" Henderson con.
tinusd ,,writ that thew had one Of
them 81, Demands and wanted we
ahould take H. | told nv wife, ssz |.
we got enough haounds to feed with.
out goin' into no fancy breeds"
Ten minutes later the puppy was
lifted out Of the crate and tulnbled into
the wagon, and Henderson drove oil.
As they ratified down the road the cool
air seemed to revive the puppy. ltfelt
good to get out Of the close crate, and
though at first he covered against the
dashboard he began gradually to feel
more like himself. Now and then he
would put up his foolish shaggy head
and try to make friends with Hender-
son. But Henderson was surly Lie
regarded the puppy as more Of au en-.
cumbrance than anything else. Such
friendly beginnings on the part OF the
puppy were greeted with q kick that
sent him shivering under the seat
again. Henderson hadn't much heart
even toward his noighbors, and when
It came to animals he had less.
When Henderson reached his cabin
Mandy, his 'womern, came out with
candle to see the new dog, and the
puppy was brought into the kitchen,
where he walked about awkwardly and
was mauled by the children. After o
scanty supper he was turned out among
the hounds in the wOod-shed, where he
law shiverinc with cold and fear until
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days and lnauled by the rest OF the
children. One morning he growled,
Henderson's "womern' said "she
knowed that the dog was ugly soon as
sne sos her two eyes on h,m' ana 'nat
vt was nothin short Of Providence he