The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-28
PRAYED BOB WOULD RETURN.
GIRL WHO PRAYED Is DORIS
PARMELEE-BOBS 4 DOG.


The Prayer was All Of Her Own MAKING
and Truly the DDS Game Back, bat II
was on the End Of . atFing. with ven
Businesslike small hoy ~ the other End
Bob, a big bunch Of affection trimmed
With shaggy red hair and decorated with
q fine bushy tail much frayed and FRAGILE d
with wagging. has returned from the land
Of bogymen and goblins and lost dogs 70
his little mistress and playmate Miss Doris
Parmelee, who lives In Thirty %hird street,
Bensonhurst
Doris wasn't a bit surprised that Bob
came back Ever since April Q, when he
ran away from home, she prayed twice a
day that God would send him, once when
she went to bed and once when she got up
in the morning. Il was a little prayer,
and Doris composed It by herself. II ran:
Dear God, please find Bob and tell him
70 come home. because II ism any use living
when he isn't with mo. II any bad man
has got him, tell the bad man 10 let him 90,
and then be will come anyway. Thank
you. Amen"
Doris Ia a member Of the Sunday school
Of the Church Of the Holy Spirit, and one
Sunday, when she told her teacher about
Bob's being gone, her teacher told her TO
pray for him to come back. The rector.
Mr.. Wildwood, talked 10 the little girl about
II quite seriously, and said he thought her
prayer surely would be answered. He told
her several stories about people with strange
names that lived between the covers Of
the big bible on his pulpit, and how they
always got things they prayed for. Dsris's
mother approved the idea and suggested
"A prayer, but Doris wouldn't let anybody
but herself make up the words.
Night after night and morning after
morning she made the prayer, just as
sure as sure could be that Bob would
turn up. and though weeks went by
she didn't get a bit skeptioal. But
it was pretty hard on her TO be without Bob.
They had played together eveg since three
years ago, when Doris got the collie for q
birthday present. She lost interest In
things and Mr.. and Mrs. Parmelee got q
good deal woT ried. A little girl u in q
pretty serious state when dolls and candy
and birthday parties and things like that
do not make her happy. So Mr.. Parmelee
put this advertisement in the papers hoping
but you couldn't make Doris think so
Twenty-Five dollars "a a lot Of money, she
knows, but II Is a pretty small sum when
Bob Ia concerned. In the little girls estima-
ton.
sasOOt REvARD
For return Of scotch collie, Strayed from homs
April Q: black body white on breast running partly
around neck white and tan on logs; belly and tail
SiGnt companion Of little ohnd who prayI for hi.
return. Readsn. please mehIl9n 70 Your friends
G. W, Parmsies, S1s Bay Thirty-thlId street
Bensohhurst.
Il was a very dOleill girl that sat on Mr.
Parmelee's front porch In the afternoon
before the lost collie appeared, She was
getting mighty little fun out Of anything
II had been different In the morning, be-
cause Pert, her mothers canary bird, had
died and Doris gave II q fine funeral,
buFying the dead singer In q satin candy
box that she had got on her sixth birthday,
aud read q whole chapter out Of the Bible
apr except the big words. But the excite
ment OF the funeral was over and nothing
remained but sorrow and the memory Of the
lost dog. The blue eyOa were full Of tears
and there were crooked atreaks down the
pink cheeks and everything looked dull
and dismal. A little girl named Frances.
who lives across the street, called cheer
hilly for Doris 70 come over and play house
with her. but Doris shook her head, q melan-
choly, lstless shake that didn't seem natural
in q little girl.
Just then, from around the corner came
a joyous bark and long gurgles Of dog ex-
CNoIneuL ana love. Inc lOdL COlub DOOuOcu
around the corner twin 2 himself into knots
and barking and yelping and laughing
and crying and telling Doris that II was al
right he would be there in a minute II that
peslCy pup Of a boy would My let 60 Of him
and take that dirty string from around
his neck. Never was there such q glad
change In a little girl. She ran for the gate.
golden hair flying in the breeze, all the tears
and sadness gone In two shakes Of finger.
For . few minutes then there was Just
tangle Of dog and little girl rolling In the
new grass.
the string grinned and pointed with his
finger. making signs Of childhood that
meant 'Fie, fee and Shame, shame.
Doris took the string away from him and
stamped her foot
You're a bad boy she said. 'Yoy
10 way from here this minute or III tell
sNixy," said the boy. Oats my dog
till gets the twenty-five found him.
Mr.. ParmAlee came out then and pre-
vented actual hostilitieS. There were
reasons why there was no use 10 ask ques-
about 10 hand over S75 when another hoy
came around the corner on the run.
Here, mister said Boy No. 2, that
kid swiped the dog from me. ! found
him Ne murders been keepin' him in
our Kitchen
Mr. Parmalee sent both boys away, tell
ing them he would Investigate and see
who ought 10 get the reward. Later on
be heard that a policeman had found the
dog and had been keeping II for a reward.
He thinks that Is a matter that will stand
some looking into. There Was a story
IN Bensonhurst that policeman had found
Bob two weeks ago and had been hold
ing him for reward. Lost dogs for which
t25 reward Is offered are not as common
az commuters in Bensonhurst Mr. Par
malice thinks he will talk to Commissioner
McAdoo about this and that there will be
sick policeman somewhere II the tale n
true one.
MUSC OF TIE Red MAN.