The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-07-16

as long as he kept it to himself it die
no harm. 1t is punning out loud thai
hurts.
He kept the gong changing like ar
/ ambulance, and he tore down Seventh
avenue as if the world were on fire and
he was going to put it out. Why he
didn't run over a half score of people
1 don't know and how he knew the
way to steer passes me. A grown per-
son would have made a hopeless boggle
of the thing and would have landed on
I house-top before he'd gone far, but
many a small boy has mastered a
bicycle on first mounting il, and Harry
made the four miles down to Wall
street in six minutes. If you don
believe me, look it up in the news
papers of that date. The date escapes
me, by the way. 1 never was good on
dates.
When Harry reached Trinity church
yard, the wolves were trying to climb
the house fronts to get at the people
who were looking out of the windows
at them. One intrepid man with a
butterfly net was preparing to get
out and capture them one by one. but
Harry told him politely that it
wouldn't be necessary. The poor man
had gone crazy over the excitement.
Harry drove up to the wolves and
then gave a peculiar cry and the
wolves stopped bowling and looked at
him. Then he gave another and the
wolves formed a circle around him and
began to walk slowly up TO him. He
was still in the automobile. A cry
of horror went up from those who saw
them. They expected Harry tobe torn
limb from limb. but he was rbt afraid.
He knew that he had them under con-
troll.
And now a strange scene was wit
messed. The wolves closed around the
carriage, and each in turn stepped TO
the door and gave his paw to Harry
just as you've seen Rover do it a hun
dred times. Harry shook each paw
and then he turned the motor wagon
around and started for Central park.
for they We're to be quartered there
until they could be shipped to the
western circus that had ordered them.
Slowly up Broadway they went, Harry
leading the procession and followed by
a file of nine gaunt, wicked-looking
wolves.
After he'd gone a mile or so, an en-
terprising advertising agent stepped up
to Harry and asked permission to put
blanket on each wolf with the name
of certain kind of pickle on it, but
Harry had a good deal of dignity and
he would not hear of it, and the wolves
would have rent the man, thinking he
was attacking Harry, if the latter had
not spoken to them.
The odd-loOking caravan marched up
Broadway to Fifth avenue, and then
up Fifth avenue to Central Park. The
news of the approach of the strange
procession was telephoned up town,
and sidewalks and Stops and door
ways and windows were lined with
people, and so great was their conf
dence in Harry's well known powers
that no one was afraid.
At Madison square what might have
been a serious accident occurred.
Ht,ary had been up late the night be-
fore at the lecture, and he fell asleep.
easy. The minute his head dropped
he lost his influence over the wolves.
and they broke ranks and uttered a
long howl preparatory to dashing into
the crowd. Luckily. the noise woke
Harry, who gave the cry he had used
down town, and the charmed beasts
once more circled the carriage and
gave him their paws and then fell into
line behind him. The onlookers cheered
him as If he had been a regiment back
frc- Cuba, instead of peace-loving
little boy.
At the entrance of the park. the
mayor of New York and all the other
wise men who composed the city gov
eminent were drawn up in a body and
they presented Harry with the freedom
of the citv
Harry had no use for it, and when
he had housed the wolves without fur
Their accident. he went home and gave
it to his mother and she has it yet in
a glass case.