The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-29

make any bother ABOUT the sAIu<''
nor show the least inclination TO De
vicious or bite anybody. He was Just
sad. that's all, and more thah nan
broken hearted. Just lay away PACK
In the rear of the cage with his head
between his paws and thousht anu
thought and thought it over, and like
to've busted with pure IonesoIheHess
and sadness. I sent word TO Emmett
hotel that l had his dog and eXpecteo
Fritz to show up at the pound this
a AFTERNOON. But Fritz didn't return TO
his hotel till late that night, and when
he did get there he wasn't in shape TO
understand the difference between
dog and a pound of sliced isinglass.
but he showed up at the pound the
next morning about 10 o'clock. Already
he had sort f heightened out his left
over. and he was pretty much on the
wooze side when he made his appear
ance. although spick and span ana
eroomed and shaved up, and pink from
his shiny top hat to his shoecaps. /
recognized him as soon as he appeared
nobody in the United States at tnat
dav would have failed TO recognize
Fritz off the stage, if only by MS
marvellous teeth.
u conducted him to the cage IN
which his dog still lay, repining' with
his head between his paws. The 81
Bernard had got a Whit Of his master,
and when he recognized him ne fairly
rose and beat himself against the
front bars of the cage in an ineHectuaI
effort to smother Fritz with dog
caresses and assurances of loyalty His
whines and whimpers of hysterical de-
light at the sight of Fritz were some
thing moving TO listen TO. The dog
fairly idolized the man.
eat the same time the twenty-three
other captured dogs in the several
cages snOped up TO the front bars and,
with their heads pressed through ana
their tails a-wagging, pleaded TO De
taken out of bondage, too. They were
all mongrels awaiting death that day
II was Christmas eve. and they were
to have been disposed Of that after
noon SOS the poundmaster and his as
sistants could have the entire Christ
mas to themselves without any canine
charges to worry about
1.-The poor NUTS just begged and
begged Fritz to take 'em out, and !
could see that they got him going, all
I4su,. ne cook MS own dog out-dIlo
the St Bernard almost knocked the
united-and paid me the 81 coming. 81
for pound charges and 81 for an Omaha
dog tag, a supply of which kept on
hand at the pound. Then, with his own
fine dog at his side, Fritz strOlled back
and stood in front of the cages, where
the tWenty-three NUTS were still lined
up in front of the bars, begging him to
do something for 'em-any old thing
e05s 70 oct 'eY1 ont of there
Poor lit fellersh, said Fritz, and
he held out his gloved hand and rubbed
their homely noses. "A dog-gOne shame,
thash Whash ish. Christmush eve, too.
Shay. felIersh, want t come Out?'
Almost as if they understood him,
they broke into pleading whines and
barks.
"'AH RI. said Fritz. then. IN get
Y out-aII o. you. I'm FIR dOgsh, first,
n lash Any OF kim o. dogsh. How
mush T. get 'em all out?' turning to
me.
L told him-twenty-thre dogs at
ST per to get EN- out-$2 each for pound
charges and 81 for each tag. in all $92.
"'All RI said Fritz, pulling out a
big bank roll of yellow bills, and skin
ming a century note off the outside.
There was no chance for me to buck
or reneg. The law provided that the
dogs had to be surrendered to anybody
claiming them, upon payment Of pound
charges and dog tax fees. I made him
out a receipt and then got out twenty
three tags.
How Y goin' to fash'n tagsh on
dOgsh p Fritz asked me then, and l
hadn't thought of that myself up to
that moment. They got no colarsh.'
Fritz fixed that part of it out all
right, too. He sent my assistant, hot
foot, to the nearest store where dog
collars could be bought, giving the man
$50 and telling him TO get twenty-three
dog collars, assorted sizes, and keep
the change. Ny assistant cleaned out
that stores stock Of dog collars and
he was back at the pound in half an
hour with twenty-three neat collars.
fastened a tag to each collar, and En-
met insisted upon entering the cage
and fastening the collars around the
dogs necks. Nobody can ever tell me
that those dogs didn't know what Fritz
was doing for them. They all but went
crazy with delight when he entered the
cages with the collars. One poor little
mutt, in his hysteria and excitement,
snapped at FritZs hand, which caused
How like sherpent's tooth ish an
ungrateful dog said he to me.
Then, with all the collars fastened
and tags attached licensing those
twenty-three redeemed NUTS to prowl
the streets of Omaha for a year, with
out any danger Of molestation, Fritz
stepped up to the door of the cage,
crawled out himself. and said to the
dogs. as he threw the cage door open
wide:
Come on. fellershl Merry Christ
mast
And they all scampered through the
door barking with delight and down
the lane they went, clinking their tags,
and praising God
Not one OF those dogs was ever
taken up and impounded again, and
some Of them were the streets of
Omaha with expired tags long years
after Fritz Emmett had redeemed them
on that Christmas eve.
you can't tell me that a man with
the heart and the gizzard IN him to do