The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-03-21
TALE OF TWO JAPANESE DOGS

the leading hotels round the world,
and among other bits of spoil had
brought home an interesting family
of Japanese spanie1s.
81 went to fortune teller in In
dia," said she, land he told me that
l had four-legged thing with me
that would bring me luck. l hadn't
any four-legged thing with me except
the spaniels, and I couldn't see how
they would bring me luck, and 1
thought so less than ever by the time
l got through the Red Sea.
In the first place, those rascally
japanese dealers do something to
make them die on ship board. They
don't want the breed to increase out
side of Japan, and nine out of ten
bought there die before they reach
any other country. To deceive them
fuosGo alOunu lln 1OunQ pefsUuaT
friends living in Japan who would
buy the dogs for me. I paid $1oo
for the pair, and congratulated my
self that l was saving 5000 on the
New York price.
''Well, we took the steamer at
Yokohama. They usually keep the
dogs on the upper deck, but the sun
was so hot that they had to put them
in the stern, away up among the life
boats.
$50 at half past ten at night, when
the coast was clear, I used to climb
three flights of stairs. and then lad
ders, and get those dogs and smuggle
them down to the stateroom and give
them bath. And water so scarce,
too. I used to wash them in the
footbath and then toll back with them,
at II or II o'clock at night. 1 kept
that up all the way to Genoa
From Genoa to Paris the dogs
fares were So apiece. But in Paris
my troubles were over for time.
Continental hotels are just exactly
opposite from those of America.
Dogs get more attention than people
there.
In Paris three interesting puppies
were added to my little family. One
of them was the size of mouse. Of
course you know that the smaller a
Jap spaniel is, the more valuable it
is. Something was the matter with
one of the puppies, and called in a
vet.
"The minute he laid eyes on that
little mousy one, he was bound to
have it. He said something was the
matter with it-a trumped up story
and he would take it home and keep
it few days and doctor it up. He
kept it SO long that I have never seen
it since.
There was no getting the dogs
into England at all. For a year past
they haven't let dog into England
from anywhere. So l had to leave
the dogs boarding in Paris, while 1
went oyer to London.
Wnen we were ready TO-
home had to go back ted
those dogs. 1 met very ple.
lady and gentleman on the trip. We
got into conversation over their dog,
which they had with them, and that
led me into telling all my troubles
with my dogs on the trip round.
1--WE got so friendly On the basis
of mutual taste that they invited me
to lunch the next day. And found
that their house was a palace on the
Champs Elysees and they themselves
the hugest kind of swells real swells,
you know. found they were rela-.
tives of the Blanks and the Blanks
and the Blanks "-and the narrator
mentioned several very great Euro
pean names. "They were perfectly
lovely to me; so 1 gave their little
boy one of the remaining puppies.
1t reminded me of the Ten Little
Injun' song something would hap
pen, and then there would be one
less.
"Well, 1 boarded the boat at Cher
bourg with the dogs, and at last star
ted for home"
"And how much did they cost you,
altogether?" inquired the listener.
"I'll tell it over, and you can reck-
on" said the travelled one. "They
cost me $Ioo in the first place. Then,
from Yokohama to Hong Kong, the
fare was $25 apiece, with SIS to the
quartermaster. From Hong Kong to
Colombo it was SIS apiece, with $40
to the quartermaster
''For boarding them in Ceylon
while we went to India it was SIS,
and from Colombo to Genoa it was
$50 and for the fare and SIS to the
quartermaster. The fare from Genoa
to Paris was So, with SIS in tips.
"Their board in Paris for months
was $25, with S. to the vet that
stole the little one. Ny trip back to
get them was $50. Then the fare
to New York for the three of them
-Cobo and Nico and little Paree-
was 500, with $40 to the butcher.
On this SIDE of Europe they call him
the butcher On the other side he's
the 'quartermaster. Then it eost us
$50 duties to get them in. How much
is that?" she demanded.
Five hundred and eighty-one dol
lars" said the listener.
"And now 1 can't get into hotel
in New York, +" said the travelled one.
$50 the four-legged thing didn't
bring you any luck after all, said
he listener, sympathetically.
ooh, yes, they did," said the dogs
mistress, patting the little Paree's
black snub nose afectionately. ''I'm
going over again in the spring to visit
the Blanks 1 told you about. That's
the best piece of luck 1 ever had since
1 got married, and as l owe it to the
Japs, 1 won't fuss about any trouble
they made me-"
THE ONE time in a mans life when
he is satisfied to take back seat is
when he goes to church.