Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-06-11
He WAS A THOROUGHBRED

At Monday evenings session of the Liars
Club. No. It's turn came around. and he
srake as follows:
Il need only to preface my remarks,
gentlemen, by saying that I have always
been passionately addicted to dogs But I
never owned dog until three weeks ago
today. Then a colored man came to the
door Of my house with a fox-terrie- pup
for sale He said the dog was only ten
days ole, and a thoroughbred from away
back-said the pup had been born with his
tail bit of, that he wouldn't grow to weigh
mere than five or six pounds, showed me a
lot of black spots around the upper part
1 OF the pups mouth, inside, to prove him a
thoroughbred. told me I'd win prizes with
MIN Tor thoroughbredness, and got my ten
collars. don't know much about thor
ougnbreds, but the pup looked clean and
pink and cunnin'. and my wife had always
been laundering for thoroughbred fox ter
rier pup, and so bought him. We fed him
on milk. gave him satin cushions to rest
on, and regarded him with a heap of solicit
trde. When l got back from the office the
Eext day my wife looked worried. 1 asked
her what was the matter. She said she
feared the pup was growing too fast to be
exactly a thoroughbred 1 looked the pup
over, and he surely did look a lot bigger
than when l saw him in the morning 1
weighed him, and he was three pounds
heavier. l concluded he'd stop growing
right then-that he was making a quick
JOB OF growing, to get it done with-and
appeaSed my wifes uneasiness When l
came home the next afternoon, she looked
worried again. 1t the pup. He seem
ed to be getting bigger and bigger, she
said. Gentlemen, 1t a fact. The pup
was Just three times as heavy as he was
when 1 bought him two days before 1
told my wife she fed him too much, and SO
she said she'd only give him two saucers
full Of milk day for a while, to see if
that I'D keep him from growing When 1
came home the third day, the pup looked
Ike a young mastif 1 thought he had
eiephantiosis, or something, but he seemed
healthy enough. He had eaten all the
shoes and hats and doylies around the
hcuse, and looked happy. On the fourth
afternoon, when 1 got home from the Of
nee, that pup, gentlemen, was the size of a
young lion. He weighed twenty-nine pounds
and his teeth were like sharks. 1 began
to fear he couldn't be exactly a thorough
Ered fox terrier. l concluded there must
nave been some mistake, and that the pup
was some other kind of a thoroughbred.
NO pup that wasn't a thoroughbred could
grow like that. l thought. let him out
In the front yard to play. He crawled out
of the gate, and in two minutes a little
black and tan terrier from next door had
chewed both of my thoroughbred fox ter
rlers ears to a pulp. But ne was only a
pup l thought, and couldn't be expected
to fight just vet. Well! to make a long
story short, gentlemen that pup of mine
is now the size of a sacred COW; he eats
eleven pounds of liver for breakfast every
morning, and I'm building a twenty-four-
foot addition to the back part of my house
to hold him. I've got to keep him chained
up, for every time he gets loose some lit
tie two-pound yaller dog comes along and
eats portions Of my thoroughbred's anat-
omy. l ran across the colored man that
sold me my thoroughbred fox terrier yes
terday afternoon, and told him how the
pup had grown. The colored man told me
that he was simply a giant fox terrier
that dogs once in a great while got to be
giants, just like men. What do you all
think about It? Was 1 done? Am l jay,
too, besides being liar