Evening star., 1901-05-04
NOT ACCORDING TO RULE

A small boy attached by a raveled rope to
a large, lean yellow dog shambied down
11th street the other afternoon. The dog
had vicious gleam in his eye; in both of
his eyes, in fact. One of his ears looked
as If 1t had been chewed upon by pair of
canine teeth in an excellent state of preser-
vation A portion of his tail was obviously
| missing. The top of his blunt head was
marked with many scars where the hair
| didn't grow.
Moreover, the large, lean yellow dog gave
many indications that he was ba-ad, and
not to be trif1ed with, as he led the small
boy along. He strained at the raveled rope
every time he saw a dog a block away,
| and the small boy had all he could do to
hang on to him, and was virtually pulled
through the air on numerous occasions
when the dog spied an enemy down the
street. or up the street. or in yard.
You better take that dog away" the
| small boy said several times to other boys
who We're playing in their own yards with
| their own dogs. This here dawg O mine
is bad, an he's liable t. pull away from me
an hop tn fence an chaw that poodle O
yours all t pieces"
And the large, lean yellow dog so COM
pletely looked the reputation given to him
by the small boy that each and every small
boy, playing In his own front yard with his
own dog, took the hint. and bamboozled his
dog into going out into the back yard to
play.
In a similar strain spake the small boy
to several ladies who approached him from
the opposite direction, leading dogs of DIFF
ferent sizes and types.
You wants t watch out, lady" were the
boys words on these occasions, cor this
flghtin' dawg O minell git away from me
an JeS' nachully eat your daWg up ard
then the lady with the threatened dog
would pick her dog up in her arms, if the
dog was small enough, or hasten to call
hpr dog down another street if said dog was
too large to be picked up
Near the corner of H street the small boy
saw well-dressed man bearing down upon
him and his dangerous animal from the op-
poSite direction. The well-dresSed man was
leading by a small chain a Boston terrier.
The Boston terrier had a pretty sulky eye
himself He was thoroughbred. all right.
and his eyes were properly bloodshot, and
| he looked to be pretty much all shoulder
muscles and mouth. He strained at his
| leash as soon as he saw the large, lean
yellow dog, and the small boys dangerous
dog strained at his leash, too.
Better git your mutt away, sir" shout
| ed the small boy to the wei-dressed man.
This here dawg O. mine is the champeen
| fghtin' dawg O. tn deestrick, an
"Oh. dunno broke in the well dressed
| man.. He looks pretty nifty and all that,
| son, but
At this instant however, the yellow dog
| succeeded in breaking away from the small
boy, and, with terrifying growl Of rage
| and the hair on his spine standing straight
| up, he leaped at the throat of the Boston
| terrier, and
ventiOnS made and provided and firmly es-
| tablished in such cases. this highly truthful
story ought to wind up by account of
| the way that bat-eared, ba-ad-looking, vi
| cious, large, lean yellow dog sailed in
and cheWed the Boston terrier to a pulp.
| In situations of this sort. according to the
unwrtten rules and regulations scrupuous-
| ly adhered to by all funny writer's properly
cd in th..jr q o1x -,
| dog, led by a small boy, that waltzes in
and pulverizes the perky thoroughbred dog.
| no matter what the natural odds may be
| against such "A performance. In this case
| however, a long and unbroken habit of
| strictly adhering to the truth and nothing
| but the truth compels the statement that
| the large, lean yellow dog wasn't in the
! hunt with the Boston terrier at any stage
of the route The Boston terrier in fact,
| made the large. lean yellow dog look like
eight high in six-handed jackpot in
which at least four Of the players have
! raised before the draw. The Boston ter
| rier proceeded to scientifically wallop the
| large, lean, vicious. ba-ad yellow dog right
off the map and diagram Of II and 11th
| streets, and the small boy--instead, as
usual In the funny stories, of Winking sage
| ly at the bystanders over his dogs tri-
umph-howled and moaned and pleaded
with the well-dressed man to take his dog
Oft The well-dressed man complied with
| this request in due season. after the Boston
| terrier had whitfield about fourteen square
| inches of hide from the anatomy of the
| large. lean yellow dog, and then he tucked
ms ms still growing little Boston terrier under
| ms arm and went his way up 11th street.
| while the disgraced small boy with the
cowed and wounded large lean yellow dog
| pursued his whmpering way down 11th
street
If all Of these things happened Just as
the funny writer's write them the world
would be upside down sure enough But
| they don't.