Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-17

ZIG To me. wants TO get Ilu vi
dog and il you know OF any
one who wants a dog ! wish
you would let Murchison
know Murchison doesn't need il. lie
Is tired of dogs. anyway. That Is Just
like Murchison. WAY up III an ehihusl-
asn one day and sick Of it the next
Frownlee-Brownlee lives on the other
eide Of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. when Muir
Gibson got the dog II was the queerest
thing. so Murchison says. YOU ever heard
IF Here came the express wagon
Adams Express Company's waSon-and
delivered the dog The name was all
rieht-..C P Murchson. Gallatin, Iowa -
and the charges We're paid. The charges
were $3.50. and the dog had been
shipped from New York. Think OF that.
Twelve hundred miles in box. with a
can of condensed milk tied TO the box and
please feed" written on it.
When Murchison came home To dinner
there was the dog Al first Murchisnn
was pleased: then he was surprised: then
he was worried. He hadn't ordered a dog
The more he thought about it the more
he worried.
II could just think who sent It," he
said TO Brownlee. then | would know
who sent it but | can't think 1t is EVIL
People don't send cheap inferior dogs
2n miles. But | can't think who sent
il.
What worries me-" ne said In Brown
lee another time. is who sem il. I cam
imagine who would send me dog from
New York. l know 50 many people. and
like as not some influential friend =
mine has meant TO make me nice pres
ent. and now he is probably mad because
I haven't acknowledged il I'd like to
know what he thinks OF me about now
II almost worried him sick. Murchison
snever did care for dogs prr when a man
Is presented with a valuable dog. all The
way from New York. with 81 su charges
raid. he simply has To admire that dog
So Murchson got into the habit of admir-
ing the dog. and did Mrs Murchison.
From what they tell me II was rather a
nice dog in its infancy for il was only
pup then. Infant dogs nave a habit of
being pups.
AS near as I could gather from what
Murchson and Mrs. Murehisan told me. 1t
was a little. fluffy yellow ball with
bright eyes and ever moving tail. 1t was
the kind of a dog that h"unces around
like rubber ball. and eats the evening
newspaper. and rolls down the porch stems
with short little squa k Of surprise and
lies down on its back with its tour legs
lii the air whenever bigger dog comes
near In color nj EaS SoIilci hing Ike a
camel but A little reddor where the mar.
ras long and il. nair Was ike beaver
fut-sofi and wCoiy inside with i few
tong hairs that were net 50 soft. |, VIZ
81 little and fluffy that Mrs Murch!sou
ralleh il Fluff. Pretty nam4 Il / Il soft
little dog is Fluff.
If ! only knew who sert that dog i"
Murchiscn used 10 say IL BroWnlee =
", uld like 10 make some return Id sead
him a barrel Of my best melons express
paid if II cost me five dollars"
Murchison was in TIE produce business.
and he knew all about MELONS. but not so
much about dogs OF course. ne could tell
dog from cat, and q few things 81 that
sort. but Browrlee was the real deg man
Brownlee had two Irish pointers or sci :
ters-I forget which they were; the ha elk
dogs with the long. fiappy ears. | don't
know much about dogs myself | hate
dogs.
Brownlee knows great deal about dogs.
He isn't one OF the Look-tauSat sov,. he