The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-09-04
WINKSEY,S DISAPPEARANCE.
A Harlem Man Loses a Dog and Learns
About Feminine Tactics.

A Harlem Man Loses a Dog and Learns
About Feminine Tactics.
"The next time work myself up to the
stampeding point over dog said Har-
lem man who lives in fat, "it's going to be
a bench dog worth at least $1,000 and with
enough blue ribbons and other trophies
dangling from his collar to make the panic
worth while. It's not going to be a dog
worth about So cents-the kind of dog that
kept me on the griddle for about four hours
the other evening.
1.-The dog belongs to me That is to say,
he belongs to both my wife and myself but
whenever anything happens to him my
wife passes the sole proprietary interest
in him over to me, so as to make me re-
sponsible for his safe return to home,
health and happiness.
when / got home from the Office the
other evening whistled up the tube of my
fiat and told the servant, who answered
the whistle, to send the dog down the
stairs to me. I'm always booked to give
him little trot around the block OF even
ings, no matter whether there's torren-
tial rain coming down or a blizzard rag
ing.
After a delay Of about two minutes the
black maid servant returned to the whist
ling tube and sang down to me:
deed An can't find de dawg, sub.
Then, without waiting for the elevator,
went up the stairs, three at a clip. burst
into the fiat like a fireman with an axe
and found the black girl wringing her hands,
seated on kitchen chair, with her apron
thrown over her head, and moaning strange
Congo-like sounds that were meant to
convey to me the information that she
wasn't responsible for the dogs absence.
Deed All didn't lose he all. suh-
deed All didn't she kept repeating. he
mus hev snuck out de do en- An opened
it TO de groce'y man. All hain't seed de
dawg TO two houahs.'
THAT was the beginning of the SIAM
pede | broke out of the fiat and down
the stairs like a maCman and as soon as
l made the street began to corral every
body that passed by and inquire. wildly
and incoherently, as to the whereabouts
OF my dog. i didn't tell EN- what kind
OF dog it was just said dog
Was it fox terrier several OF them
asked me, and bawled an idiotc Yes
and ed EN- where the fox terrier was
Il think that about fourteen OF them had
seen a fox terrier dog playing by himself
right down the street. Now, If had stopped
to think for about one-eighth OF second
III
never an hour of the day or night, in New
York or anywhere else. when there isn't
a fox terrier playing down the street.
suppose Hoped at least five miles in follow
ing up these clues. All Of them were de-
lusiye.
II walked and conferred up and down
frenzy for about an hour, and then l saw
my wife getting OF the car at the corner
in the twilight She was returning from
ali a.
Madam. / said to her tragically when she
crossed over. L grieve to inform you that the
dog that I have dragged over all the North
American continent at your behest and com
mand during the last seven years has been
lost
Then l told her a lot of other things,
among others that it was burned peculiar
thing that couldn't edge away from my
fiat FOR more than twenty minutes without
coming home to find such grewsome
calamity as lost dog.
We'll, she said, knowing full we'll that
she'd be able to incte me to fury such as
would cause me never to let up IN my hunt
for that dog "a long "a had breath in my
just bound and determined to run away,
why, let him, that's ALL wouldn't turn over
a finger to find him-not l.
Perceive the craftiness Of that attitude
OF hers. If she had commanded me to
hustle right down town TO advertise for
the dog and to notify the police and alarm
the town over the business she knew per-
fectly we'll that I'd have curled up instantly
and washed my hands of the whole affair.
"She purposely gave me the opportunity,
however to reproach her for her callousness
in being willing to leave a poor little dog her
faithful companion for seven years, to
starve in the streets of New York without
any effort being made to fetch him back
homeland OF course | availed myself of
that chance. / told her | was going after
hot l<p Int Sha
to see me again-no. not II | was hoary
old man--unt I'd found him.
-Whereupon. leaving her standing in the
street, | hoped on a car and was hauled
to the nearest station house, where ] fran
tically reported the loss Of small fox ter
rier with lemon marking on both sides of
his head. The police didn't appear to take
it so seriously as did, and | felt resentful
toward them for their attitude.
Then ! hustled to lot OF the Harlem
branch offices OF newspapers and inserted
an elaborate description, Of the. dog in
Lost advertisement believe appended
the statement to the ad that almost any old
reward would be instantly paid, and no
dat. '''''' N' ~ Wv we W '
Then, exhausted with the frenzy Of all
this business went home
That fox terrier mutt was yawni ing,
s1uatted In bored kind Of way on the
Morris chair in the dining room, when /
walked into the fat.
Il stared at him for minute, wondering
IL he was the ghost of dog come back to
reproach us in spirit for not having been
more Jealous in hunting for him.
Ghost nothing! When he saw me he
bounded down on to the floor and turned
over on his back and executed the usual
stunt OF welcome which he always pulls of
when arrive home, even II I've only been
to the corner 10 get a cigar.
So silly. wasn't it?' heard my wife say
inc n ma then 'HOu nv dear. when I
left the fiat to 60 shopping, poor little Wink
sey was in my clothes closet, and / closed
the door to, not knowing that he was in
here. And few minutes after l came
upstairs this evening, after meeting you,
heard the greatest scratching in the closet
that ever was-and Of course 1t was little
Winksey trying To- get ont, Why, you
might have known that the little dear would
never rim away in this wide world from
his mumsey -wumsey--' and then she
had the mutt In her arms, and the rest of
1t was ,inintelligible.