The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-11

took place every day. although the
lamp had valuable properties only one
day in each month.
Dick must have taken 1t, but how
did he get it? An open window in the
rear of the barn told the story. He
had come in the night and stolen it..
Yes, there was no other word for it..
He had stolen it, and now he would
rub it and be up to mischief with it
beyond and doubt. Harry had told all
the boys of his wonderful lamp, and
there was not one who was not crazy
to rub it, but hitherto no one save
Harry had known where it was kept.
Il wonder what he'll do With it? |
wish I'd hidden it somewhere else,
said Harry, preparing to mix the food
for his chickens.
What Dick was going to do or had
done was shown within five minutes,
for as Harry was calling his chickens
to their breakfast of mash, he heard
the greatest concentration of banks,
yelps, bays and yapS that had ever
assailed his ears.
He rushed out to the street and
beheld an army of dogs coming pell
nell, with music by the whole band.
There were mastiffs and poodles and
spaniels and blood hounds and great
Danes and collfes and Boston terriers
and bull dogs and pointers and settlers
and black-and- tans and Dalmatians
and grayhounds and dachshunds and
Pomeranians and Newfoundlands and
pugs and yellow ours, and no two were
barking the same tune.
OF course Harry understood how it
had happened at once. The town
council were terribly down on dogs, and
they had caused the death of every
tramp dog in Garfield, and among 9TH
ers little black-and-tan that had be-
longed to Dick. but for which he had
neglected to take out a license. When
the little fellow ended his life in the
Garfield pound Dick had vowed ven
geance, and this was the way in which
ne was obtaining it. He had undoubt-
eddy asked the good dim to make him
a present of several hundred dogs, of
assorted sizes and shapes, and just at
time when the town fathers were con-
graduating themselves that there was
not a stray dog within the town limits
this horde of hungry beasts had been
rained down upon them.
Harry knew it was mean trick, and
II was all the meaner because his en-
envy Dick, had done it; but the sight
OF so many dogs was as good as go
Ing to the circus, and in his Utmost
suit Harry acknowledged that he was
hkely to have more fun out OF this
gift of the djinn than he would have
had out of a brand new stone house
with no lawn.
Most of the Garfield residents are
commuters. which is another way of
saying that most of them are early
rlsers; but there was more than one
man late in arriving az business that
uay on account of the dogs.
There were some who were too tim
10 to venture out. and there were 9TH
ers with blood in their veins who stay
ed in town to see the fun through.
One of them said: I'm going to see
ms thing through If it takes all win
Ter If the city fathers haven't got
10 get busy 1 don't know dog from
purple aster.'
There was a good deal of yelping
ana snarling and fighting among the
logs themselves, but none of them at
q! lacked any citizens who behaved
themselves. OF course If a man kicked
4 cross dog the dog kicked back with
ms mouth, but, considering the num-
'r' there were very few accidents.
10 De sure, some of the little dogs
I b1I very irritating things to the great
az oogs, which is a way that little
5ss OF all kinds have, but the big
ross shrugged their shoulders and did
N answer back, but trotted along