The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-11-18

ling dog"
-Four small feet pranced and skipped
about, while shaggy little wisp of
tail wiggled and frisked and endeaV-
ored TO say: II simply cant tell you
now overjoyed l am to find you. I've
looked everywhere for you. l really
believe l could almost turn myself
wrong side out from sheer happiness at
seeing you again"
Come close, Beautiful! But don't
you dare to bark word, cause like
not that dreadful, dreadful woman will
come and take you away from me-.
At this Beautiful pumped his nose
through the small opening at the WIN
dow, shifting violently, and then giving
voice to loud and sympathetic whine.
Just then two hands, coming from out
the darkness Of the cellar, closed round
his soft. warm body. 1t was hard,
tight and uncomfortable" squeeze, and
such tugging and pulling you never
saw in all your days. That the feat
was accomplished at all was probably
due to the fact that BeautifuIs daily
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to one meal would not have made a re-
spectacle between-meal bite.
Beautiful, it must be explained, was,
like his small mistress "a charity board
er at Miss Jane Smithson's Select
School for Young Ladies. Suffering
similar injuries, there was between the
two bond of deep sympathy.
Once inside. Beautiful was given a
tender hug of welcome. Then, holding
him closely in her arms, Lura sat down
upon pile of old carpets and pro-
ceeded to open up her heart. The dog,
accustomed to those little secret ses-
sions, showed his deep interest by
looking up lovingly into his mistress
face and endeavoring vainly to bestow
kisses thereon.
''She says I am very. very bad,
Beautiful Lura explained in soft whis-
1pers. "She has said that an awful
many lots Of times, and I'm getting
kinder 'fraid, I am. But honest and
truly, you know, I couldn't help it.
Honest I couldn't. I broke plate,
just told her that the plate was all
ssoap-sudsy, and that it slipped right
out of my hand quicker'n I could catch
it. Oh, Beautiful, you ought to seen
her. She got so ma-a-d. She said
she'd teach me to break dishes and
then talk back to her, and then she hit
me-hard, just dreadfully hard, Beau
tifur'-here the dogs big, friendly eyes
looked tenderly into hers-"and then
she put me down here
A rat ran squeaking across the floor
Beautiful sprung up, stuck up one ear,
and growled savagely. Lura caught
hold Of him and drew him back into
her lap.
That's just as nice as can be of you,
Beautiful, to say you'll keep 'em
away, but I hadn't finished talking to
you, and you know it's not a bit p'lite
to interrupt. Why, used to be as
'fraid as anything of rats, but now
when I'm 'fraid 1 just think what nv
dear daddy said to me- He said: Lit
tie daughter, it pretty nearly breaks
fathers heart t. go and leave his girl.
but she must be a brave and plucky
little woman, and he'll come back and
never. never 90 away from her again.
beautiful" she said, slowly, "he's
a dreadfully, dreadfully long time a.
comm back to his girl"
And then the flood came. 1t began
by single tear hurrying down a sor-
Eowful little face and descending upon
the dogs satiny black coat. He, feel
Ding that his little mistress was in deep
distress, shared her sorrow by whining
tpiteously and burrowing his nose in the
soft little hollow of her neck. Fol-
some time they sat thus, the girl Sob
bling and crying as if the burdened
aeart had reached the limit Of endur-