The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-12-10
THE YELLOW DOG's DiY.
Happy Experiences of Four-Foot eel
stranger In Riverside Park.

stranger In Riverside Park.
"No dogs allowed at large" is sign famil ar
| In the parks. and. commonly, dogs are sen
| thee except such as are with their masters ut
occasionally. Paying no heed TO the slgns. n stray
dog comes In. Such visitor was srcn IN River.
side Park on Sunday last, this dog being first
observed about IN the region of loS,h street
lie was yellow dog. slightly brindled: rather
tall u good sized dog and very thin: big fioppy
ears and a long, round tail, with curve in the
end Of II, long legs and rather wabbly S,r, ot
gait. perfectly good.nnturrd and taking a philo.
sophical view; accustomed 10 rrbuns, and taking
them. not slinkingly. but with n perfectly un.
affected good nature. II was a mild and bcauti-
full day and evidently the dog enjoyed ii. and he
was moved by II. apparently. Ia the manifestation
Of even more than his usual irieninrsS for those
he met Of mankind. and perhaps he cravei some
friendness from them
Sitting on the up.river end NJ a Park bench
with his ovcrcoat collar turned up around his
ears, was man with grey beard The yellow
dog passed down back of and around the down
river end Of this bench and came up quietly in
front. and stood and looked at the man. and
wagsed his tail The dog had come from behind
and very quietly. and he had not planted himself
squarcly in front but had stayed by thr man =
side and So with his collar upturned. the man
didn't him, and presently the dog turned
and tro,tci oil, going south,
Alttlr later he stood still in the path. and looked
up among the tree trunks on the slope II the park
looking al the trees. and then he looked out over
the water. and then h. tutt"d slowly on. cars
abobbing. and tail a.s~ingns When presently
lie met woman in III . path he touched her dress
with his nos.s but she paid No attention. 4
| little farther down there sat on bench woman
with a child in the scat bcsid" her little child.
81 small that his little legs stuck straight out
JUS, beyond the edge The yellow dog trot,cd
| up to the little child and stopped with his nose
near the chlld's feet, but the child cried out aud
woman 10 tell him togo; that the child was scared
was enough ..r him; h: tro,t"d along,
lower cd ge Of the park by tho water long freight
'fnin. nifty cars or more and The yellow dog stood
still and watched them till the last one had gone
aud then he stood where he was and kept on look
| ing for half a minute more at where the train
had passed as though he expected I" sec more
or as though he had not recovered from the sight
| Of what he had seen. II seemed rs though the
| train was something wonderful to him. though
II may be, Of course, that II had for him only the
| interest that railroad trains have, unfailingy.
| for many humans
Trotting on again the yellow dog stopped
bench that stood by the river edge of the walk,
upon which a man and a woman were sitting,
! approaching them with intent to make their ne
| 9uaintnnco, at least TO the extent Of exchanging
friendly grertngs But the man m2,i9ned him
unkind 10 dog NJ obviously good na,urcd And
the dog took this; as he did all rebuis' with entire
good humor. and turned away a. once i" Was
| he certainly was unobtrusive. and IL was clear
that he recognized fully the right Of every man To
The dogs he met, and he met, a number were
perhaps more curious than friendly, hut they were
H1 and herr herr "oG hG aoss e
self; aud II was more often the case that the dogs
he me-, greeted him than he them Troitng on
head as he passed. Then he met a man and a
woman and got similar greeting from thc man
overlook man who was going the same way a.
himself: this being a gray haired but straight,
alter, and vigorous man. who In, n S9m I way became
walking beside him, Then tho gray haired man
bent he didn't have to bond much the dog being
and square an Sutshd out rcrcgnion Of ke dog
and from the sort Of man the dog liked to know
man patted his head again aud then The yellow
dog passed on with something more than the
usual S Of his Ind Jar" sIma snd S M
general mir But the great event OF the day was
4 lille further down the walk there sat side by
side on bench, three women. The yellow dog
! tro'te pas, these three momcn and then halted
S"@ e." "'rG ena 70 sS
up To her slowly, until he caught her attention
and then she pu, 1u her hand and pn,,ed his head
her and laid his head in her lap And moi only
did she let it lie there hut she smiled and alroked
his tail mainly down between his legs in n self
deprccatory soft of way, hut the tip he waggled
Leaning forward IN nee what had engaged ih' al
tcnion Of her companion the woman In the middle
seat saw the dog and smiled Al him. and then
the dog came along dagonnlly In front NJ the seat
Ia her, md she pnlted and smooihcd his head in
just the same way And then he passed on 10
the third woman, nj whose hand he got Just the
same kind treatment
The yellow dog stayed with them as long M h,
could without oyersthying his welcome and
then he went on his way but his ears were Hopping
harder than ever, now, his tnil wagging more
vigorously. and there was positive lettering
IN his movement, as he walked along he was NJ
happy. II was the yellow dogs day. iA- r.