The age-herald., 1901-06-14
Sources of Amusement.
BYA.E cAFFEE

Her sources of amusement are yeritably without number and without end. We mean New York. for we are again to en- certain our dear little readers with that great city's great catastrophes and unique diversions. This time 1t is about a bull dog and a fellow who sold automatic fig ures to children in the sidewalk. The scene was that lordly thoroughfare ot commerce known as Twenty-third street
 It, from the reports in the papers, must have been exceedingly funny and would have brought joy to the heart of the car icaturist who makes a speciality of such pictures. Miss Sylvia Lynden, who played Sapho through the South during Nether- sole's illness, owns a bull pup and the pups name Is bounce. Miss Lynden was out shopping accompanied by Bounce, the pup. Bounce must have been feeling mer- ry and careless, for as he was passing along Twenty-third street he became deep ly interested in lot of automatic toys that were being permitted to run at large over the sidewalk by the peddler, who was in charge of this sidewalk store. These were difninutive automobiles, huge colored flies, mammoth jumping frogs, Tapping beetles seals run by clock-work and many other things that men some times see when they have been drinking not wisely but too well. Bounce was sim
  ed ominously as a big red and blue fly sprawled across the pavement and ran be- tween his legs He backed off a little and snarled at huge frog that leaped at him, and he was clearly terror-stricken when a highly colored pewter chauffeur ran his automobile around him in swift cirles. It finally ran into his legs and Bounce then cleared for action. In one moment he be- came a restless, nervous, active dog. He fell upon the automobile and wrecked it, and with the whirring, clattering frag- ments of the toy in his white, evil-looking teeth, he looked up to the face of his mistress for words of sympathy and ap- proval. The peddler by this time had ceased to enjoy the antics of his bugs and beetles, and was wrought to fury against Bounce, so he flung out vicious kick al the bull-pup, which was very much more in the dogs line than the Tapping of the wings of the mysterious bugs in his face without awe or reverence, and Bounce quickly tucked the kick and fastened his teeth in the peddlers leg. It was good grip, solid and enduring and we'll clinched, says the circus reporter. It was there to stay and the peddler began to howl and shout and yell for help. The actress seiz- ed Bounce by the tail and swung him, as the circus reporter insists, like a har- bor tug turning a. transatlantic liner against the tide. She might as well have pulled against the piers of the Brooklyn bride. Bounce was fastened to the peddler for the rest of the afternoon, for he just closed his eyes as if for a nap and refused to heed the pleadings of the actress to ''let go,. Bouncie let go," the peddler all the while giving out a series of soul-stirring yells and groans that told plainly of his deep distress. An immense crowd of vari- egated humanity had gathered and were watching Bounce harry the peddler with that quiet streak of humor that pervades the human family and makes 1t laugh