The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-09

They understand every word. linen ne
burned the paper.
Il fell to the game right away. l made
a blum that I'd come up on a business
proposition. After q while stretched my
legs and remarked It was time for me TO be
hitting the pillows. and strolled out
i took a car toward town and got Oh a
few blocks down the line and doubled back
for the woods. l hadn't no more than
begun TO hit open country till could hear
the bushes rafting TO both sides Of me
and see the sneaky, bulgy heads Of a pair
Of them dogs peeking out at me,
Il cut a big stick, was that nervous, and
hiked for the woods 'as fast Is could 60.
The two ours that had follered me set down
in the road and Just watched.
Pretty soon the bushes begun TO oreak
again and some more bulgy headed ours
begun to sneak into the road, and along
came Bill.
Climb that locust tree, SAM he
whispers to me, and don't dare talk loud.
Their ears is awful sharp
so up the tree / shinnies, and Bill after
me. We gets our legs over branch and
sists face to face. The brainhounds closed
up and sat in a ring under the tree,
tie the only way TO beat EN- says
/ Bill. And it won't last long, neither.
First you know they'll figure how 10 climb
a tree
And now says I, will you kindly raise
the curtain and give me a peepi What's
doing?'
Then Bill loosened up and told me, US
sticking our heads close together and hang
ing on with our legs.
He'd took the pick Of them dogs and
| dedicated em until they understood every
| thing people said. That looks onreason-
able, but when you fgger the thing out,
| it's all right.
a common. ordinary dog can be put
wise to lay down and sio EN- and fetch
and things like that, so you can see how a
! real brain-hound, bred for class in intelleok,
could get wise to the whole English language.
! After he'd taught EN- all the words he
| knew, Bill used to set and read the papers
to 'em every morning, and every evening
Mrs. DoTgan, who's got a high school eddi-
cation, used to read EN- Lit 'rachure out OF
| books.
They didn't care much about po'try,
but they were great on sermons. and their
favorite book, judgin' from the way they
wagged their tails and laughed with their
NtAbboo NhoA olp AN9SuOd w VI llo bnGl
for It, was John B. Coughs Temperance
lectures. 1t was on account OF this that
they named the prize pup Of the brain fac
tory John B. Cough.
IAN this time, Bill had been kind Of MOTTO
ing the thing that caused all the trouble.
Jest as Bill said along at the start Of his
exper ments, dogs is moral animals.
They're nAcherly obedient and honest
] nd Nutf hNYn - 49,
they was too good to hold. Bill found that
the stories Of crime and gambling in the
papers kind Of Jared EN-; and when he
| started TO read the Rev. DR.. Parkhurst's
revelations Of the sin Of New York they
got a crouch that lasted all day.
so Bill cut out the accounts Of crime
+ and drinks and police graft and read EN-
| only the sermons and the high minded
parts Of the editorial columns and some Of
the jokes. Bill said that some days there
wasn't nothing in the papers to read em
at all.
Bill was a pretty good square moral
cuss himself except when it come 10 a dog
deal. SO all the instruction Of them trust
ing pups tended 10 show EN- that people
was as good as they was themselves.
bill was just beginning to teach Mrs.
Shakespeare and Mrs. Henry Clay to read
and " lie when G.. Stanley Rogerbilt. the
trust magnum, come up and bought John
B. Cough. Bill had to explain TO John B.
that here was a chance to elevate the dog
race and do good before he'd consent 20
leave the Mayfeld kennels and 90 along.
Two days later when Bill opened the
front door there was John B. Cough sitting
outside. Right away Bill seen that some
thing had happened.
John B. wouldn't speak TO him at ALL
just put his tail between his legs and
sneaked on in the fur corner OF the yard
Bill was wise enough not 70 do nothing
but watch.
John b. went over into the back yard.
where the brainhounds was kept. and be-
gun to talk il over with the other dogs.
How dogs talk dunno, but blame we'll
know they can.
Well Bill said that the horror on the
faces OF them brainhounds was something
awful, After John B. Cough had stuck
his face up close TO EN- for q while they
went OF in a corner and laid down and looked
discouraged. After a while they held an
other confab.
And when Bill finally went out in the
yard there wasn't dog there would speak
TO him. Mrs. Cicero who had litter OF
likely pups, herded them through a hole
in the fence. The rest growled when he
tried 10 pet 'em. Nothing he could say
would make any difference.
I'm the afternoon @. Stanley RoEerbiIt
drove up in his auto looking for his dog
When John B. Cough seen him be let out
an awful bark.
The other dogs fell in and they went
for G. Stanley Rogerbilt. II Bill hadn't
pulled a gun quick, they'd "a tore thel big
trust mRgnum 10 pieces. They UNDERWOOD
about guns, all right. That was part Of
the eddioation Bill gave em.
According 10 the way Bill told 1t 10 me.
he says TO @. Stanley Rogerbilt:
What have you done 10 that dog John
B. GoughT
Nothing, says Rogerbih. He's lived
in my house and been took 10 the once
and treated like velvet
Did he Sc you do businessr says Bill,
getting a idea.
''sure he did says G. Stanley RoRerbilt.
I wanted 10 eddicate that dog He seen
me close three deals and bust the etook