Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-10-21


Brisk to it and went indoors.
She walked up and down in her cham
Der ceaselessly now, gazing always at
Sardinia. He was over there, the assas-
sin
The dog howled all through the dav
land all that night. In the morning, the
lold woman brought it water in pan.
lbut nothing more-not a bone, not a
crust.
| The day passed Brisk, exhausted.
lslept. The next day its eyes shone its
hair bristled, and it tugged madly at its
chain.
/ The old woman still gave it nothing to
| eat. The dog, become furious, bayed in
a hoarse tone. And so the night passed.
Then, at break of day, the old woman
went to neighbor and borrowed truss
of straw. She then took some old gar
ments, which her husband had worn. and
stuffed them with straw to simulate a
human body. Having driven stake
into the ground before Brisk's cask she
tied this manikin upon it so that it
seemed to be standing up Then she
| fashioned the head out of a bundle OF
old cloth.
The dog, surprised. looked at this man
L.
with hunger
Then the old woman went to the
butchers and bought long piece of sau-
sage. Returning to her own house, she
Int fire near the doghut in the yard
and broiled the sausage. The dog, fam
ished, bounded about and foamed at the
mouth, its eyed fixed on the sausage, the
fumes of which drove it almost mad.
fhn oil l.
smoking sausage a cravat for the man
OF straw. She fastened it firmly around
the neck, as IA to make it part of the
straw figure. When this was done she
unclaimed the dog.
With a mighty bound the beast seized
the manikin's throat, and. with its paws
on its chest, began to rend it to pieces
1t fell down, a bit of the prize in its
Jaws the.. jumped again, forced its teeth
into the cords, tore away some morsels
OF food, fell again, and leaped at it again
feroelously. 1t carried away the face in
great mouthfuls, rending it into strips
with its sharp teeth
The old woman mutely watched it all.
her eyes blazing Then she chained up
the beast again, starved it for two DAYS,
and recommended this strange exercise.
sort of struggle, to this repast won only
by its fangs. She no longer chained the
beast, but with a gesture set it at the
manikin. She finally taught it to tear
lt, to devOur it, even though there was
no food concealed in its throat She
gave 1T the sausage afterward as re-
ward
As soon as the dog saw the manikin.
4 ftspff Ia LODI hon. l.
VINO Missed Co." pointing with ner fin
ger
When she judged the time had come,
the widow Saverini went to confession
and communion one Sunday morning
with ecstatic tervor, then, having as
stunned masculine garb, looking like a
ragged old man, she made bargain with |
a Sandman fisherman, who took her. |
accompanied by her dog, to the other
side of the strait.
She had a great piece of sausage in
her bag. Brisk had been starved for
two days. The old woman gave the beast |
a sniff of fragrant food every now and |
then to excite it.
They reached Longosardo. She went
to bakers shop and asked to be direct |
ed to Nicolas Ravolati. He had resumed |
iA2 wa Ai"NAO VI pEHCeIlH8. ana wax |
at work alone in the back of his shop.
The old woman pushed open the door
and called:
''Nicolas!"
lie turned; then, loosing her dog, she
cried:
Co. eat, tear, devour"
The famished animal sprang and seized |
The mans throat. The man threw out |
his arms, seized the dog and rolled upon
the ground For some seconds he strug-
gled, his feet striking the earth. Then
he was still, while Brisk tore his throat |
to ribbons.
Two neighbors, seated at their door,
recall perfectly having seen an old man |
go out with half-starved dog which.
as it went, ate something dark which its
master gave it.
At evening the old woman reached her |
home. She slept well that night.-From |
the French of Guy de Maupassant.