The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-09-25

reached back with the other to grab Mulligan by the collar. He was about a third of second too late. Ille horse pulling the surrey was going at pretty fair clip, but that didn't bother Mulligan. Mulligan had seen that
 bunch of dogs. He jumped over the hind wheel. slid on his nose for ten feet or so, and then he was in the midst of the six dogs. Two of them scrambled, but the other four remained to see what could be done with Mulli- gan Before they could ascertain that nothing could be done with Mulligan,
 they were all so maimed that they could scarcely limp away. Muligan couldn't hold them all down at once, so he contented himself with taking few bites off three of them, and then giving his undivided attention to The New foundIand pup, as being the largest dog and therefore the dog most likely to give him run for his money. There were two holes in the NeWfound- lands throat as biz as silver dollars when Mulligan was finally batted off by three of Pinckney's clubmates, all of whom regarded Pincknev slantwise and were cool toward him. Mulligan jumped into the back seat of the sur rey, wagged his stump of tail and gazed affectionately at Pinckney. dog longs for approval just like hu- man being.
 When Pnckney went to the club that night he found that he wasn't treated very cordially, so he stalked out, his head in the air.
 "Mulligan's not dog with me now" he unused on his way home he's a principle, and I'm going to stand for that principle until the finish. I'll show these ducks if they're going 10 try any cheap ostracizing dodge on me just because I own a dog that can put it all over their dogs; that can mop up anything that wears hair for that natter So Pinckney in fu,illment of his determination to uphold his principle, remained away from the club
 About a week later Mulligan broke his chain, went over the Pinckney front fence, and shook the life out of one of the Fillxins kittens that was playing outside the Filkins's front
 
 the time, but a black man who hap pened to be passing corralea Muligan and hobbled him into the Pinckney backyard again. Then the black man walked over to where Filklns Was jumping up and down, growing male dictions against lhe whole Pinckncy tribe, biped and quadruped, to the first generation.
 He all's uh putty likely dog, suh,' said the black man to Filkins
 F'ilklnss reply couldn't be printed in a family newspaper.
 But Ans got de baby dat kin do him." went on the black man.
 You have, have you?" said he to the black man, Well. it's $20 in your clothes, and no questions, if you fetch that baby around here"
 Does dey evuh tuhn dis heah dog loose, so's nah baby kin git at 'im?" inquired the black man.
 No, not often," replied Filkins, but the man that owns him-that Pinckney across the street-fools around with him In his front yard every evening about this time. Keeps a-hold of the chain, though"
 "Dat's all right bout de chain, suh,' said the black man, with grin Ann be heah wit nah baby bout dis time tomorrow evenin'."
 At about the same hour the next evening tllkins was citing in his front yard, waiting for something to happen. Pinckney, with his hand wound around Mulligan's chain, was teaching some tricks in his front yard A ramshackle express wagon, driven by black man, drove up in front of Fikins. The black man reached un- the seat and pulled something there from. He dropped the something to the ground, The something was huge, battered tomcat that looked as if 1t had frequently been run over by brewery wagons. It carried the scars of many battles. It was bald in many The black man looked dreamily up the street, Mulligan got his eye on the cat that sat in the middle of the road licking it's patchy fur. Mulligan broke | away from Pinckney, leaped the fence bore down on the cat-and then it happened. Mulligan wasn't one, two three at any stage of the route, from flag-fall to finish Mulligan was blind | in both eyes before he knew what he | had stacked up against, and was yelp- | ing and rubbing his damaged orbs | with his forepaWs in the middle of the | road Then the cat went at him from | the rear, and when it was all over 1 Pinckney had to lead a blind bulldog to box in his backyard Filkins's l shouts of joy could have been heard a | block. While PincFney was deposit ing his punctured canine phenomenon | in his back yard, Filkins handed the black man new, crisp twenty-doIlar bill and wrung the black mans hand | cordially The black man reached down, picked up his cat, that was com | plaisantly licking its patchy fur in the | middle of the road again, and drove off.
 When Pinckney moved back to the ,ity from Bensonhurst last week inc | doctor in charge of Mulligan held out some hope that one of Mullgan's eyes | might be preserved.-New York Sun. |
 CI1ILDREN'S SAYINGS.
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