The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-05
g DOG NAPOLEON.
30 WITH HIS YOUNG MAS
7" '.So WAS FOND OF HIM.

,,re All Dogs and 9th
pc d. n..,aes-Bow He Frightened
Pi's' D and Earned a Quarter
his owner
/, man So for him when he was
u n dog, / mean-and he
pap ~ man did-that If l would
aiudly and give him plenty OF
n s'D Give the dog-he would
s'u ,be man would-that ne
|teew e, un-tho dog would grow up
grow s op 70 him-to the man.
f'I a. pI got to be the largest st o aos
in I ,nS q"' | wore long curls at
s' ! remember, into which boys
f ss.t ! b pplls,v which hurt me a good
l oa when Napoleon would
\ claws and try to run them them
' U,SI locks, although the locks
n,s my in that way. They were
Ea,ion locks, | suppose ana l
r n'iI have my letters in my head TO
~ animation on. He also grew
l.rour' Napoleon did, so that l
diIficult to keep him at home
\ tied him, and even then it both
~ another dog happened to be
l. Catching sight Of that dog,
" vould utter a glad cry and
|'vor fine fence, utterly unmindfui
[ooe or me at the other end OF IL.
NJ street he would prance' giving
Sbort banks ard drawing the at
If people after him, also myself;
|ors coming to the windows used
I'll at the black and white streak
Ne in passing by. Sometimes l
y cot home till long after meal
rhicb in those days was quite a
Im TO mo, though not to Napo-
those appetite soon became ceie-
throughout the whole town, for
u couldn't get a pair of rubbers
mpff to Stake the cravings OF
he would 60 out and collect the
If brown bread that bakers had
uthe adjacent stoops. wouldn't
print the things that people used
bout him at such times.
rev up together-at least Ma
did, for he had two feet the start
Wcwere inseparable. Neighbors
ey never saw anything more so,
was chiefly because l couldn't
rope unfastened in time.
IS Napoleon appetite that ulti'
accomplished his ruin, just as II
py another mans. Aunt and Un'
psterfeld came TO visit us that
hey lived at Jay Corners, ant
bught never to have gone any
Use, but there they We're, getting
the stage at our front gate, ant
build we do? | heard father sa,
mother as they stood looking
the window together. Uncl'
field wasn't really our uncle, yo'
and, but just an old friend Of ia
II don't know how old, but h
every day Of it, and more. W
him uncle because he appeare'
ay Aunt Chesterfield had ii
(eux, which used TO cause her Z
b the awfulest faces. i realiZ
h it was from pain, but at tina
ped to laugh, whereupon she sal
wicked boy. She also had
wig and rheumatism. Uncl
FIELD didn't have anything bu
rts-l think | counted 70-an
heSterfeld. But / heard fathe
her that was enough.
pr put them into the spare chan
Pre- the old fashioned canvas bot
was with the white valance
we're also some green worste
pats on the bureau. We a
cd night, father wound up I'll
ID everybody went to bed. / WI
sound sleeper as q boy, so yo
pow that Aunt Chesterfield Ina
pretty loud to get me out, b,
y, and could have fetched me,
had been dead. / got right U
INTO the spare chamber befol
could stop me.
chesterfield was sitting in Il
the bed in a red flannel nigh
didn't know her at first, b.
mouth was wide open, shriel
her face twisted with tic do
and the whitest, shiniest hea
saw, which | remembered wit
'ocSs OF brown. But l saw no
III minute, for there was N
yer In the corner with a brow
Is mouth, which he was tossi1
ylng and carrying ON dreadful
'e chesterfield you couldn't s.
vut by and by you found hi
legs stuck through the arms
chair, and every time
apoleon would growl, not beil
"a with Uncle Chesterfield, al
most scared TO death.
OOA the stage back to Jay &C
very next day. Mother W
shocked, but l noticed tn
UNI get excited.
~ ~uer who let that dog ,
''aid musingly after the sta
,ou 70 say that l didn't kno,
~. " .Stammering and mixed m
~ peiore l realized what
H.. o, , the truth right O
'pa. did. Father gave me
:, uiant know what for, but
! ~ ,. the time that it was 1