The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-12
OTHERS HAVE SUFFERED.

'@rhe most recent incident in connec-
 tion with my slavery to a dog. which has already endured for more than sev- en years, happened last week, said the
 man with the strained expression
 around the eyes. .'The mutt is fox
 terrior, and he's been my wife's booful
 angel for seven years that have been
 sure-enough stuffed with incident. Ev-
 anywhere that we go, the ki-yoodle's go,
 to go. too, and no difficulties Tn the way of transportation or handling, not to
 speak of the dough involved in lugging
 him along, shuts the dog out of the pie ture so far as accompanying us on our
 travels is coneerned-rny wife wouldn' see such thing for ne-eighth of a sec ond. Just once, and once only, has my wife left the. mutt behind when she's s taken little trip. A month ago she ran over to New York to pay me little visit--I was too busy to get down to
 Washington-and she left the ki-ki be- hind in Washington, in charge of her sister. We'll, she got lonesome for the dog after she'd been in New York with me for just two days. Then she told me that she couldn't stand the gloomy, overcast skies of New York it was during the period when the sun didn't pop out for a stretch of three weeks over there-and guessed she'd hike back to Washington. But it was that pampered purp that she wanted to see, and thus I got passed along for dog by my own wife. ss-.@s
 We live up in Harlem while we're in New York, and hate to think of how much that dog has set me back during the past seven years on the many ocea- sions that my wife has brought him over to New York or taken him away from there. They won't stand for dogs riding on street cars in New York, y'see, and so, every time my wife lands in New York with the dog, he's got to be dumped into cab for the ride up to Harlem, and the cab from Cortlandt or Liberty street to Harlem, containing theedog and my wife, pushes me behind just six simoleons' worth. Similarly, when the dog has to be taken from Harlem down to the erry-house. The surface cars of "L" trains, at one-half dime the throw, would suffice for my wife and I, but that coddled ke-yoodle has got to get into me for six dollars worth of riding every time. And the mutt's kept us out of more fun than any four children could. We can't go hiking off on any kind of little excur- sion for more than eight hours dura- tion, because the dog cant be left be- hind. My wife will never listen to my suggestion that the dinky terrior could easily be placed with a dog-boarder whenever we wanted to go off on little junkets-she's got an idea that the fel- lows who take dogs to board during the absence of their owners put in all of their time pounding the dogs spines with war clubs. k. .
 Last week my wife made up her mind to put in couple of weeks in the country, and she picked out as the elig- ible place a farm about five miles from Bel Air, Hartford county, Md. She conned me into going along with her to spend a few days on the farm. Of course, I was dead wise to the fact that the chief reason why she wanted me to go along was that she desired me to take care of the dog during the trip, but I've learned obedience and didn't make any brutal cracks about it. just went. We got the mutt over ito the Mount Royal station in Baltimore all right, and then we had to transfer the bag gage and the dog to the Maryland and