The sun., 1908-03-19
7HB DOGS NAME WAS NANCY
IHiTS ONE FACT iND IT DIED
-.THlT'S ANOTHER,

man and Mrs. GOldnlcll OF the Bronx
It's sure tough luck when you blow $50
for d Pome-anian pup that's warranted to
O. fee, black and healthy and you take IL
home and tho black rubs OF the back leav-
iog white spots here and there all over the
p,noranian's little back, and your hus-
land. shirt is spoiled by the mixture Of
rbe ampback and something that tenn
,orariy covered the doggie's white spots
and the pup develops the mango and ring
worms and II loses pound a week until
nothing is left but It's diseases and finally
h dies.
Then when you also consider that the
l,lv Vho went through all these trials in
s..,s that she also caught the mango from
,be pun last Christmas you can sympathize
vl,h her chagrin particularly when you
earn upon calling on her 10 ask her TO
,oufde her troubles that also she feels a
moral obligation to give a good home to
phunograph and that the pretty home In
which she lives is at oil Oak Tree place.
so wonder there are anarchists!
You don't know how much II is to ask OF
mo 10 live In Oak Tree place until you start
oit IN A rainy day to find Oak Tree place.
You gcr into a subway train at Brooklyn
Bridge first Of all and right on the bat YOU
find that the train is made up Of day coaches
and there no smoker And then you start
rorfhvari and ride and ride and ride and
n.ia with no incident 10 break the monotony
except that mp near Mott avenue, just be-
fore the subway shoots into the open to
climb overthe far few houses, you remember
,ha' you forgot your umbrella in Park row
phcn vou went into Peuy's 10 see II you
,orIi gct away with il by telephone.
Night has fallen. The quality Of the rain
Is not strained; it droppeth, that's all.
Round about you the trees are dwarfed
and Won see from the stunted vegetation
nat you have come into a far country.
The most northhriy subway tie ever laid is
row 10 the south Of you and you wonder
shat the big twenty-four sheets with Gene
Walters name on them are doing here
unless the troupe's playing Red Hook this
week Just to make conversation you ask
A policeman. who already has told you
that his wife makes life miserable for him
and that he is an orphan and that the trusts
Keep an honest man down. whether Oak
Tree place is anywhere hereabouts.
He says they aln't no such street, but
ina, maybe it starts one block up Quarry
road because there's little street there
that looks like it ought to be called Oak
Tree place. So you make a try anyway
and trudge oI through the rain--keep your
mind on this rain stun, remember-through
streets that the natives oddly have paved
with a yellow brown jellylike composition
that is soft and yielding TO the ankles.
Md after a while you find Oak Tree
rIace. It's in the Bronx.
Owing to the inability Of Mrs. Emil Gold
Ick. the person who got the Pomeranian
pup the day before Christmas from Man
haitian dog dealer, TO unlock the outside
glass door Of her home promptly a great
les Of her first spoken opinion Of the dog
,lealeT from whom Ahe and her husband
bought the pup was lost, You could tell
that Mrs. Goldniok was making answer to
me inquiries regarding the dog merchant
which you had hollered in to her when shs
had opened the inner or front door proper.
lust whaeshe was saying however. was not
altogether clear because now the keyhole
ol the storm door through which you had
.Enalled was stopped up with the key
with which Mrs. Goldnick was trying TO
lnlock the outer glass door. But while
she tuRged and tugged at the keyhole she
never stopped for a moment in her efforts
70 give all the information in her power.
With a mighty tug the door opened at
ast with ostentation.
Was raining something terrible that
day, YOU remember Mrs. Goldnick was
Iaying. and l told my husband we wouldn't
40 down that day TO get the dog the day
before Christmas, l mean. But here !
had my choice Of set OF furs or dog and
! had chose the dog, and 90 we took
green car down to the subway at last and
Eot Of at Times Square and went over TO
this Frenohman's dog store IN Forty-siXth
street. He used TO keep in Brooklyn, think,
md his ways Of doing business are most
peculiar, 10 put it mild.
How did YOU ever hear about the dog
living and the dye all over its back to hide
mo white-but | suppose It's the talk OF
tho town by this time. don't say he's
a dishonest man, but the whole thing Is
svirdle
"oh, guarantee these goods says he
10 my husband and me when We picked out
black pup and we told him we never
ovned dog in our lives and didn't know
blessed thing about them while my hug
hand was playing with the puppy. He
was that oily, too,
Who which"
"sThis Brooklyn Frenchman, ! mean.
You know the soft way they have with
them, but hs couldn't fool me. SO we
raid $50 for the dog and brought her home
and her name is Nancy. II these goods
amt right this dealer said. I'll make
them right, all right And got witnesses
that he certainly used those very words IN
front Of party know and ] can prod luce
this party any time he denies those words.
And that night | was looking the goods
over and saw little white marks all over
her little nose and places and the next
morning I went right down 10 that French
man and faced nun with Il. 'O-o-o-ohp
he said--you know how innocent they pre-
End those are only ringworms. And 30
went home satisfied But listen 10 this;
on Christmas Day my husband had put
90 4 clean shirt and he was sitting at break
'at holding Nancy against his shirt and
J said, Emil Emil. what in the name OF
lnmon sense made you put on shirt
Z Al ', all over black spOts?-thinking Il was
oolre stains on his clean shirt or something
1i he looked down and what do you think
II wasn't a mean swindlel All the lamp
N'-n'i or charcoal or something was rubbing
uf Nh, Pomerqnian, which showed conclu-
.,ve that il wasn't.a Pomeranian at all but
on.y art black with the gray and white
-, IvsI Mont VOIl StaD inside and
- Town, And il wasn't that my husband
la. put on the shirt with the coffee stains
.u n but II was the color OF Nancy rubbing