The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-09-11

careful how 4 moved.
hurried into a atroetwhere, OF this
time Of day, ihero we're still fewer
people. / sat down on q step, took
ont my pocket-kniio and cut the rope
from the dogs mouth
His gratitude was heart-breakingi
Il almost seemed at FIRST as If be would
die Of it. And / cried; / couldn't
help It, and you know very well I'm
not one Of tho Swelling kind Yes,
Mascot, it's all right now; you needn't
lick my face, and we'ro not going to
part There. lie down again.
Wei, as soon as he became little
more calm, or might say as soon as
We became more calm, ! looked at my
watch. II was Of no use TO think Of
the train nowi / couldn't possibly
catch IT, The dog kept his gaze on
me as if he feared should leave him.
We walked, he at my very heels, un-
til We came TO a hack stand ] took a
carriage and I put Mascot had al-
ready named him in my mind-on the
front seat then / placed myself oppo-
site, and told the driver to take rs ont
to Northrup street-that was q good
half-hour's drive.
SO we started. Mascot didn't like TO
be as far away from me as the dis
lance between tho front and back
seat He was continually reach
ing out paw, and presently lifted
him over beside me. hurt his poor
burned flesh as / did so, for he whined,
then hurriedly licked my hand as if in
apology and to assure me that he
would allow me to hurt him if I
wished to do so.
We lived here then, AMI my wife
was in the garden when the hack
stopped at the gate. She saw me with
a smooch Of blood, the dogs blood, on
my face, and gave q little scream as
she ran forward. She had believed
that l was already miles away on that
train.
'Tm all right" / FASTENED to say,
''and I've come buck because I've
saved this fellow. l hope you'll like
him"
1 stepped out, and Mascot stepped
out after me, or rather with me, in his
fear lest he should get left
He was not a reassurinS object His
hair was full of mud aud blood; there
was a cash in his under lip; and he
was now beginning to feel stiff and
sore. He stood pressed against my
ankle while paid the driver.
Fortunately my wife lad had a dog
when she was a child, AMI if you have
ever been intimate with a good dog,
it makes all the difference in your feel
ing toward the whole canine race.
Having become convinced that l had
met with no accident, Margaret looked
Mt the new conner an instant, then she
held out her hand and said softly:
poor fellow what q hard time
you've had p
Mascot extended his head and licked
the tips of her fingers; then he
glanced up at me and said, I'm going
to love her, too-but lot quite so
we'll. l." -ye
We took him into the kitchen and
put him into the sink. We washed
him, we cleansed his wounds with
warm water and CASTLE soap.
How gentle he was, and how he
tried to bear it. Then we put an old
blanket IN the corner, and he sat stlthy
down on it. He ate a basin of bread
and milk, and then we left him. But
lie would cry. 1 went back to hin
three or four times, and he seemed
perfectly happy while ] remained. A
last Margaret suggested that l leave
him something of mine, dropped
my handkerchief beside him. He pu
his chiu on it, and when we left Lin
alone he didn't whine again.
I was glad I called him Mascot. fo
that very night one of the firm, t,
whom hadsent word that I was de
tanned from starting on my cuisines
trip that morning, came out and sal,
they had decided TO putme in anothe
department, with five hundred dollar
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