The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-20
CoRA.s DOG.

Ever since Cora went to the dog show she has been longing for dog of her own.
 Of course. it was out of the question for her to have one. Mir Bulkeley, who has the honor to be Cora's father, ex- pressed himself to that effect. as he said, mot once, but a thousand times" Cora's brother Emerson. when appealed to, admitted that a dog, if it was the right kind of dog, would not be so objectionable: but then his tastes ran to bull terriers. Percival, the other brother, who is steady, natter -of-fact young man, in spite of his decorative name simply asked: What are you go- ing to do about the lease?"
 Cora replied to those objections-First that she didn't see why; second, that it was the janitor's business to clear the building of rats; third, that stipulations Is flat leases didn't count for anything. or the Bassett girls wouldn't be allowed to play the piano after 10 o'clock She added that she didn't care anyway and | that she wanted a dog.
 Persistence is one of Coras virtues or vices, as it hapens to affect one. She gave the family no rest on the dog ques- tion for months. She would pick up the evening paper. glance down the adver- 1 tisements and then announce that l thoroughbred Javanese poodle of guar anteed pedigree was to sold at a sacri- 1 fec in consequence of the sickness or death of the owner or something of that 1 sort. Or she would relate how, walking down such and such a street. she saw 1 the cunningest, sweetest loveliest little puppies in shop window.
 Mrs. BullSeley would say, Now Cora, what is the use of talking about that when you know it is out of the ques- l tion?" But it never did any good
 MT. Bulkeley is in business downtown | in the Pottawatomie building and both his sons are in the office with him. It l so happened that on Christmas eve, an l individual in sheepskin-lined leath- CT coat took up his station on the curb stone in front of.~the Pottawatomie l building and held in his arms two fat rolypoly puppies, with soft brown curl ing hair and blue ribbons tied around their necks. A third brown haired, be- ribboned, rolypoly puppy peeped out
 from the open bosom of the mans coat. It was little late in the season for that 1 but otherwise not unusual.
 Percival and Emerson were to have l left the office together that evening but
 Emerson had some packages to tie up
 and Percival decided that he would not
 wait for him. As Percival was about to | cross the streets his eye fell upon the
 man with the puppies and he stopped. There is something particularly at tractive about puppy to most people,
 especially when 1t is decorated with a
 blue ribbon. Still, it is doubtful wheth-
 CT Percival would have stopped if he
 had not thought of Cora. At any other
 season probably he would have thought of Cora and passed on, but now the
 Christmas spirit was upon him, and af-
 ter brief struggle with it he purchased puppy and deposited it carefully in his ulster pocket and hurried away to catch
 his car.
 Half an hour latter Emerson, loaded with packages emerged from the build ing and seeing the two remaining pup
 pies, instantly resolved to square 1t
 somehow with the folks" and gladden.
 Cora's heart. He put a puppy in his pocket and the man pocketed g, an so
 he passed.
 It was some little time before MT.
 Bulkeley finished his work, but when he came down the man with the last puppy
 was waiting for him. MT. Bulkley took
 note of the curliness and the appealing
 plumpness of the little animal-and
 walked on.
 But the thought of his daughters
 hearts desire. pressed upon him insist
 ently. At the end of the block he stopped.
 After all,'' he reflected Ia little thing ] like that oughtn't to be hard to take care of, and if it was we could easily
 get rid of it. I don't suppose anything shell get will give her half as much
 pleasure. I believe--yes, I'll buy it for her.''
 He retraced his steps and parted l with s2 and started for home feeling i quite exhilarated at the thought of the
 surprise in store for Cora.
 l The Bulkeleys say that the reunion of the puppies was something touching to f1rrff fraN Nr-4 NT1rrt