The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-19
TOWN TALES.

ne mas llOI DIS yet DeCOlHe thoroughly
satisfied as to whose dog he is. He is
innocently creating an amount of feel
ing" among the members of several
families. Innocently, because he is
well-behaved dog and does not bark or
howl at night or make excursions into
the kitchen. No child has ever been bit
ten by him as far as is known, and he
has never assaulted anybodys pet cat.
He would be deeply grieved if he
thought he were responsible for a lack
of cordially anywhere, for he is as
friendly disposed an animal as ever
wagged a stubby tail or lolled a red
tongue at a human being. But the
trouble with Danger" is in his multi
phcity of ownership. first found him in
charge of a little maid of ten who re-
sided in the next block. She was fas-
tened to him by a rope long enough to
reach from the front stoop to the back
yard, and in her innocently childish way
she confded to me her story.
The dog had been turned over to her
by an unkind master and she had found
him hungry and dirty, but gave him a
good bath and an excellent supper. She
then turned him over to another lady
in the fiat who, in turn, presented him
to her cousin. The cousin let him loose
and he had again come into the possess
ion of the kind-hearted little miss. In
a whisper she told me that her mamma
refused to permit Danger the freedom
of the house, and the pathetic tale so
touched my heart that l soon found
myself the guardian of Danger with
all the responsibilities attached thereto.
l was told that it would be necessary
for me to take out a license and that l
should be obliged to construct a private
kennel for him on the premises mas
much as one of the rules of the house
is that no dogs shall be allowed in the
building All this l was glad to do in
memory of the big, generous heart of
the little girl who gave him to my care,
But have found a better way to have
him cared for than that of my own
personal attention l have made him
everybody's dog. Molly, the maid of all
work, the policeman on the beat, my
colleagues in Bohemia must all chip in
and stand their share. / propose to go
about with a notebook and pencil among
them and make small collections, and
if necessary take out license In the
name of Myself & Co., and attach
that tag to Dangers collar. The result
of this will be that each one will have
an interest in him. The elements of dol
lars and cents will enter into it. Dan
ger will be no longer anybody's dog.
He will be property. The brass tag that
l propose to put on Dangers collar Will
give him added responsibility and L
will have each one of the investors take
him out frequently for a run. Meantime
Danger is trying to please everybody
and consequently he is living dog
| life.
Mayor Dodge does not lay claim to
being particularly good penmall' a
| fact to which any one who has had an
| opportunity to observe his autograph
can testify. This signature of the city
highest official caused considerable anX-
| iety in the minds of certain bank OFF,
| Gals a short time ago.
The mayor was seated in his office
one afternoon, when there came ring
at the telephone, and an apprehensive
voice wanted to know if his honor mad
| knowledge of a certain check to which
| his signature was affixed. The mayor
replied that he had, and wanted to
! know what was wrong with 1t.
ooh, it's all right" was the answer;
but the signature is not familiar" The
| mayor assured the clerk that the sig
nature was undoubtedly hts own, and a
| possibly startling case of forgery was
| nipped in the bud. Mayor Dodge eX-
| plains the incident by the fact that in
| his law business his clerk usually signs
all checks, but on the occasion in ques-
| ton he took the liberty to sign the Or
| der personally.
| Penn avenue is a great thoroughfare
| for dogs So numerous are they up that
way that they have formed a sort of a
| club. Unidentified CANNES and monde
scripts Of the tramp order are sized up
with suspicious eye, and unless they
! can give a good account of then. selves
| they are apt to be sent down Union hill
| on the DEAD run.
| A day or two ago a very youthful
| dog wandered into the large field al the
| corner of Penn avenue and Clarkson
| street, which the dogs use as a sort
| of a roofless clubhouse. Three of tho
! larger cogs made dash for him, and
| soon had him pinned down. FROM the
| yowls it was evident that the little
| stranger could not show a passport or
! give a satisfactory account of himself.
! The big dogs, judging from then man
euvres, were disinclined to harm the
little tramp dog but it could be seen
at a glance that they intended to Tut
up some sort of a job on him. bob, .
the leader of the Union hill CANNES,
gave some peculiar banks that were
| translated in a jiffy by the two other
dogs, known as Chill and Dixie"
They started to paw INTO the soft,
yielding loan, like steam shovels. and
| soon had quite a hole excavated De-
| spite his resistance, Bob forced the
| tramp dog into the grave and held him
dirt in around him, leaving nothing but
| his head exposed. 1t was comical to
watch the little chap and listen to his
| pitiful bow-wowing. He seemed to
| IMAGINE that his time had come, and
that his folks would never know what
happened to him. The big dogs sat
| around him in the form of a crescent,
and it was easy to see that they were
| laughing up their canine sleeves at the
predicament of their tramp companion.
ALL the while between yowls, the
tramp kept vigorously paving the
earth Finally he loosened enough OF
1t to allow of his body being forced
through, and with his tail between his
legs he dashed down the street, howl
ing bloody murder in the dog lingo.
The Penn avenue dogs gamboled about
in high glee when he escaped, and did
not pursue him, but it is safe to say
that that particular little tramp will
never again seek a handout where the
| present dog population find appetite
sufficient to attend to all that is COM
ing their way.
A good many queer articles are found
| ny the dlldcHeS Ol lue uDllC Library,
whose duties consist in receiving books
on their return and arranging them on
the shelves. Among the strange finds
are all kinds of bills, grocery bills, gas
bills and the like, hairpins and hair or
naments of every description and ma
terial, love letters, locks of hair dress
samples, pen and ink, pencil and cray
on sketches, postal orders postage
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