The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-17

NH me. wants to get rid of dog, l 1 and if you know of anyone who wants d dog wish you would let Mur- chison know. Murchison doesn't need it. He is tired of dogs, anyway. That is just like Murchison. Way up in an enthusiasm one day and sick of it the next.
 Brownlee-Brownlee lives on the other side of Murchison-remembers when Mur- chison got the dog. It was the queerest thing, so Murchison says, you ever heard of. Here came the express wagon-Adams Express company's wagon-and delivered the dog The name was all right-"C. r. Murchison, Gallatin, Iowa. and the charges were paid. The charges were g 80 and paid and the dog had been shipped from New York Think of that! Twelve hundred miles in a box with can of condensed milk tied to the box and .'Please feed" written on it.
 When Murchison came homo to dinner there was the dog. At first Murchison was pleased; then he was surprised; then he was worried He hadn't ordered dog The more he thought about it the more he worried.
 'If I could just think who sent it. he said to Brownlee then I would know who sent it; but I can't think. It IS evidently a valuable dog. l can see that People don't send cheap, inferior dogs 200 miles. But I can't think who sent it.
 What worries me-" he said to Brown lee another time, lis who sent 1t. can | imagine who would send me dog from New York I know so many people, and, like as not, some influential friend of mine has meant to make me nice present, and now he is probably mad because haVent ac1,nowledred it. I'd like to know what he thinks of me about now"
 It almost worried him sicK. Murch1son never did care for dogs, but when man is nresented with a valuable dog, all the way from New York, with s2.SO charges paid, he simply has to admire that dog. So Murchison got into the habit of admir- ing the dog. and so did Mrs. Murchison- From what they tell me it was rather ice dog in it's infancy, for it was only A pup then Infant dogs have habit of being pups.
 AS near as l could gather from what Nurchison and Mrs. Murchison told me it was little, fluffy, yellow bail, with bright eyes and ever-moving tail It was the kind of dog that boances around like rubber ball, and eats the evening newspaper, and rolls down the porcb steps with short, little sqdawks of surprise, and lies down on it's back with its four legs in the air whenever a bigger dog comes near. In color 1t was something like camel, but little redder where the hair was long, and it's hair was like beaver fur-soft and woolly inside with a few long hairs that were not so soft. It was so little and fluffy that Mrs. Murchison called it Fluff Pretty name for soft little dog is Fluff.
 eff only knew who sent that dog, Murchison used to say to Brownlee, 'I would like to make some return. I'd send him a barrel of my best melons, express paid, if it cost me $5p
 Murchison was in the produce busi- ness and he knew all about melons, but not so much about dogs. Of course he could tell dog from a cat, and a few things of that sort, but Brown lee was the real dog man. Brownlee had two Irish pointers or setters-I forget which they were; the black dogs with the long. Happy ears. I don't know much about dogs myself. I hate dogs.
 Brownlee knows a great deal about dogs. He isn't one of the book taught sort; he knows dogs by instinct. As soon as he sees a dog he can make d guess at its breed, and out our way that is pretty good test, for Gallatin dogs are rather cosmopolitan That is what makes good stock in men-Scotch grandmother and German grandfather on one side, and English grandmother and Swedish grandfather on the oth err and I don't see why the same isn't true of dogs There are numbers of dogs in Gallatin that can trace their ancestry through nearly every breed of dog that ever lived, and Brownlee can look at any one of them and immediately guess at its form,i1a-one part Spitz. three parts greyhound. two parts collie and