Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-02-10
A Timely Chapter Wherein These
Close Friends Figure.
FAILURES OF THE CATCHING CREWS
When the Youth and the Pups
Are Both Alert.
y RESCUE JUST IN TINE

latter happen to he small boys. There is a
small boy living in q small frame house on
.. street northwest who cherishes yaller
tsot Yellow dog of obscure antecedents.
but much native shrewdness, that the divers
dog catching crews have been yearEins for
ever since the beginning of the campaign
frausurated by the weird dog-muzzlng or
tiinauce But the dog garnering crews are
never able to espy the dog IN state of
separation from the boy. The boy is al
ways there or Whereabouts. The dog-catch-
ers have tried all sorts of schemes to get
that dog which is collarless, tagless and
nluzzleless. They have essayed ambus-
CO @s snrties in force. tlank-turnings and
all the other arts of war except the dunn
dunn bullet. which. oddly enough, isn't per-
rlttted even under the capitals uncanny
dog statutes: but that particular ecru dog
i still Unterrified and blinks peacefully
to-day as he did on Saturday last when the
twentieth attempt to corral him tiZzled out
ON this occasion the dog sitting in
fl, Mt of the wooden gate. absorbing the
Siur-like sunshine. and doubtless meditat-
i!S no guile. His small boy cherisher was
stated on the steps of his front porch,
Niiitt!irC The dog-Catchers wagon stole
Gp the street and halted beside the curb of
{, house about five doors down from where
ths small boy and his dog lived. The boy
q Int appear to notice the wagon at ALL
H. went right whiting. and the dog
Went right blinking outside the front
E.ttr. \ cDlOred man stepped down from
III, taiibuard of the dog-catcher's wagon
and wIlked on the pavement in the direc-
ton IF the dog in the most matter-of-fact
manner in the world The black man didn't
pear To have dog on his mind at all. He
seemed To be interested chiefly in his imi-
tatinn Of a piccolo playing rag-time. He
carried net other implement of his
profession. He had known that particular
yaiier dog TO spot net two squares to lee
ward. There The dog sat in unconscious
10 ri yawning and looking ennui over the
tea:5h Of excitement. and the small boy.
seemingly all unaware of the close cOntiSu-
ity nj danger. continued his whiting. A
grin IF anticipatory triumph stole over the
black mans face. but he walked straight
ahead. looking like a colured man and
BROTHER who simply couldn't be bribed for
big maTey to collar an unoffending dog.
The dog catcher was exactly eight feet
fru!a the canine when the small boy the
porch -.tepS. without breaking off in his
whiting at all. gave n couple of short.
peculiar clucks. The dog practically Jump
- over the picket fence backward, just as
tS' black dog catcher was reaching out to
naik'. = grab for him. and in two jumps the
cur was through a hole beneath the porch.
With his onnery, nondescript-hued head
stack out and seemingly expanded into one
large grin.
Say. die ever git around wen it was all
over? the small boy asked the chagrined
dos-catCher. hardly raising his head from
Lis whiting.
Oats ali right, son; ah-ll git dat mutt
o. va all's yit.' said the black man.
You will wen you're wearin' Buffalo
Bill hair said the small boy. Hey. wy
don't You swipe me? ] amt got me muz-
zi- on this mornin Gimme a ride in tn
NUTS hurry wagon. will you?'
But the black dog catcher. again defeated
after many trials. was olodding back to
Hey the small boy yelled after him.
you won't do. seer You amt got tn
speed; you can't put EN- over; hey. you're
scratched.
WALLER Won Again.
The dog catcher's wagon rumbled down
the street in the other direction.
Come on out. Chuck, it's all off" said
the boy to the dog. whose head was still
sticking out Of the hole beneath the porch
They've pulled their freight down tn
block / hunt FIR easy ones"
Then the yaller dog resumed his position
edIy
As a matter of fact, the dog catchers
don't look forward to much business on
Saturdays The small boys are d home on
that day off from school, and on SATURDAYS
they constitute themselves personaIly-con-
Quoted guardians Of their dogs. There are
more muzzleleSS and agleSs dogs out on the
streets on Saturdays than on any other 1av
Of the week. because during the remainder
or the week. when the youngsters are at
school they keep their precious canine
friends hobbled in their back yards. on
saturdays they turn their dogs loose hui
uey never let them get out of their range
OF vision The dog csitchers figure that in
Is about as hard to collar dog that is be-
Ing looked out for by a small boy owner a s
X IS TO capture five victims that are with
ont such guardianship.
\ griTny looking little NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
rier sat on Saturday afternoon last ON the
single step of tUmble-down shanty built
directly Il Georgetown street Th. doc,
licked his chops lazily and idly watched a
battered cat scaling Il fence across rho
SFtrt- Inc black dog catcher. carrying a
NJ thls time but looking innocent never
tie.eSS stole uD from the wagon anchored
a short distance down the street The DOG
catcher was blissfulIy ignorant OF tbs
'''Ily head framed in the window of the
Sndnty and the pair of eagle eyes set in the
mead lie was about twelve feet from the
u"g- ana was Just about TO pull his net
around and get 1t into action. when the
uoor OF the shanty was jerked inward
70 MoseH shouted the small black how
VINO mad been watching out OF the window
Ihere was drab flash, gap in the at
mosphere, and when the dog catcher's net
came down it spread its meshes over so
many cubic feet of vacancy The door vas
slammed to, and when the dog catcher
looked up he nuttered something to himself
when he saw podgy black thumb placed
deriSiVely at a fattened nose All sfIhon
eLted IN the window As he was walking
ABOUT TWO inches and this was shot after
him IN piping, gloating voice:
Hen, mistah, dey ain nobody at home,
but 20 all kin leave yo' keeahd,"
Up on l. street, not far from leah a
sinai! white boy was standing I'm front Of
nus house on the sidewalk with a fraved
Dls-io"ted. good-natured, black anv-kind-
of-doS seated beside him, tail a-wag. and
gazing up at the boy adoringly The how
mad MS hands in his pocket and was an
pareitIy deeply interested IN the trick rid
ing % another small boy on an old solid
tire bike in the middle of the street
Neither ne nor the boy on the hike Iat ON
that they saw the dog catcher's wagon nrIiI
UP az the corner, only few doors away
The owner Of the dog stood stock still and
The boy on the ancient bike flismounted and
pretended 20 be fixing the pedals thereof
j ne black dog catcher advanced iowa rd
the boy and the dog. with his net behind
MINI and with the general manner az a
black man bound for work on road-mena-
ing Job some distance up the street.
A Fifteen-Foot Start.
The dog catcher was about ffteor faat
from the boy and the dog. and the CLEAN M
triumph already won lurked in his eyes
Then the boy stopped suddenly vanked
loose the coal-hole cover that he had been
standing on, and said TO the dog:
Go. git EN-. Soak,s.,
Tue dog dived head-forernos. into The
Goa. hoie. and the boy replaced the cover
WIN one movement and stood on H. whis
lLifiS several plaintiye barS fr.,yo w