The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-22
pup PLAYED WITH DYNAMITE.
BILL DEVERY, YELLOW DOG, WON
DERS WHY HE'S UNPOPULAR.
Around With lt-Took DousinS
and . Clubbing to Make Him Let Go.

There is a mongrel pup on the West
Side who has made such public character
Of himself that folks have got to calling
him Bill Devery. Like his distinguished
namesake. this Bill Devery has a pretty
good opinion Of himself. He sees no disad
vantages in the absence Of one eye, sickly
yellow coat and an inch and half of stump
where a more beautiful dog would have
tail.
Mongrel Bill recently succeeded in in
gratiating himself with James Buck. an
engineer for bod hosting machine COM
pany. which has n plant at Tenth avenue
and Sixty-third street. Buck handed Bill
some meat and milk one fatal afternoon,
and Bill has stuck to him like leech ever
since. He regards the graft as good.
Since he attached himself to hod hoist
ing company, yellow Biil-that is, the dog
has been rather chesty. He thinks he
knows lot about things, and has acquired
a habit of sitting around the workingmen
with heap of wisdom in his one eye, super
intending their job.
Yesterday morning Bill sauntered out
Of the yard to look the neghborhood over.
He came across six inch stick Of pasty
yellow stun and decided that it was worth
taking back to the yard
On his arrival at the yard Bill became
frisky. He tossed the stick up In the air
as though it was a rat, made few quick
circles around it. grabbed it again between
his teeth and ran kerplunk up against a
stone wall, in his excitement.
Policeman John NJ. Hayes, thinking that
the dog had caught a rat, stopped moment
to watch the fun. As Bill hit the wall
he lost his plaything and Hayes went over
to see what it was. II was dynamite
Before the policeman could get the stick
Bill recovered from his collision with the
wall, got he dyI amite again. and dashed lp
and down the yard. Hayes called Buck and
told him that the dog had stick of dynamite
Come now, Bill Devery, old boy" coaxed
Buck; give me the stick"
But Bill couldn't see il that way. He ran
around in circles for a few minutes. tossed
the dynamite in the air and got it in his teeth
again and eluded half hearte pursuit quite
easily
Get a pail of water, said Hayes
Buck got the water and Hayes got a
stick. The next time Bill got within reach
dynamite, and then hurled the pail at him.
catching him on the top Of the head. At the
same time Hayes landed in the middle of
his back with the club.
Bill dropped the dynamite and rolled
over and over. wondering why he was so
unpopular. Hayes grabbed the stick of
dynamite. put 1t in pail of water and
carried it to the Bureau Of Combustibles
When it got there it was found to be badly
chewed. 1t was quite harmless however.
as ii was not capped. The story of the
dynamite got all around the neghborhood
before the afternoon was over, and Bills
unpopuarity with the masses has consider
ably increased as a result Bill may get
worse than a club if he ventures out Of the
yard before public opinion Gains down,
for you might as well tell the real Bill Deverv
that he wont be elected Mayor of New York
next month as to tell these folks that that
dynamite couldn't have exploded