The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1898-11-10


Ptage-sn ungainly St. Bernard puppy
With legs long enough for . dog twiee
his size. A card on the top Of hid
;6iclser cage read:
lss... ........... ......s .ss.. 100000 5000
BILL HENDERSON,,
Keene Center.
AdirooAaekA
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The crowd ON the store porch waiting
~ the mail to b sorted looked the
Aswcomer over and expressed their sew
ssl opinions as to his breed. Some
e'eslated he had shepherd in him, !"
end others ''swan he hadn't"
''See that; haow he hobs that head Of
his'n," said Israel Lulens, an old hunt
er, peering into the crate. "Hello thar,
Long Legs,' haow goes it?-hungry. DO
yer" and the puppy licked the old mans
hand.
"What 70 got in thar?-a lion?''
shouted Alfred Hammer from tho road,
on his way to the lumber shanty.
| BY this time the mail was sorted, and
the crowd scufaed into the store. A
kerosene lamp sent long shadows sour
Tying over the low ceiling and difused
D mellow light half way down tho
counter, at the further end of which
was strewn q 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 foated lazily toward the
lamp and, ascending, were lost In tho
shadows.
The puppy, left alone on the porch,
heard the laughter and the voices of
the men inside, and began to whine.
4 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 -
It swung through the valley, and TAR
down the road the baying Of the hound.
Then came the sound of a wagon clat-
tering along and the next instant Bill
Henderson refined in his team and called
out:
"Dog here for aour folks?"
The door was opened by the post
master.
''Some of my womern's relatives
daown in Fort IT," Henderson con-
tinued, writ that they had one ct
them St. Demands and wanted we
should take it. told my wife, SEE I,
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 tu1nbled into
the wagon. and Henderson drove of.
As they ratified down the road the cool
air seemed to revive the puppy. Itfelt
good to get out of the close crate, and
though at first he covered against tho
dashboard he began gradually to feel
more like himself. Now and then he
would put mp his foolish shaggy head
and try to make friends with Hender.
son. But Henderson was surly. He
regarded the puppy as moro OF an en-.
cumbrance than anything else. Such
friendly beginnings on the part Of tho
puppy were greeted with q kick that
sent him shivering under the seat
again. Henderson hadn't much heart
even toward his neighbors, 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 tho
puppy was brought into the kitchen,
where,he walked about awkwardly and
was mauled by the children. After Q
Scanty supper he was turned out among
the hounds in the wood-shed, where he
lay shivering with cold and fear until
Henderson's eldest boy came for him IN
the morning and hitched him to . cart.
If he was not harnessed to the cart
BY the eldest boy and lasLed up and
down the road in the broiling sun, he
was dragged into the cabin ON wet
days and ,nauled by the rest of tho
children. One morning he growled.
Henderson's ''womeru" said "she
knowed that the dog was ugly soon ~
she sot her two eyes on him." and that
ut was nothin' short of Providence he
hadn't bit some Of the young uns."
Henderson said he'd take him where
be wouldn't get back in . hurry, and
the next day the puppy was hitched
under . peddler's wagon and departed
amid the gibes of the Henderson chill.
dren and tho snarling of the Hender.
con hounds. The peddler drove along
IN the binding heat and dust, and b.
fore he had gone two miles tho puppy
had hard work to keep his chain slack,
his feet began to bleed and he whined
piteously.
When tho cart reached the valley,
six miles distant, and stopped in front
OF tho post Office. the puppy lay un-
conscious against the hind wheel, his
eyes were closed and blood oozed from
his nostrils. Some one unhitched tho
chain and dragged him q few feet away
on the grass under . tree.
Two men passing stopped.
Guess he's dead" aid one. Looks
Hike he'd been ugly, anyhow" said the
other. and they passed on.
The shadows heightened until only
the great slides far up ON Great
were high enough to catch
the rays Of the red sun. A few lamps
at the windows down the single
street, and q gentle breeze rustled the