The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-23
oUR CITY LIFE BROUGHT FEARFUL
 DOOM.
Story of Rustic Canine That To This Day Knows Not The Cause of His Rapid
 Downfall.


 Jack was not only a country dog. Int d lost dog too. He hadn't been in town an hour before he was pain fully aware of the fact. He came m yesterday afternoon revelling In the dust at the back of a country wagon stopped to ask a city dog what was the good word, and few minutes later found the scent of the team lost m myriad of smells in the great hign- way. |,
 Jack was broad -shouldered. A bull ancestor of fifty years ago left them to him, and also the massive jaw. Where he got his coioring he never even tried to guess, after the first time, for 1t made his head ache. lie was about the size of an ordinary dog, had three fleas that he knew of and his suspicious about fourth.
 Jack trotted along Madison Avenue. paused to wonder who was getting killed as he passed the ball park. and then thinking that some one was get ting killed. he hit the road on into the heart of the city at a lope, nis tall describing circles after him every time his flopety ears Topped He was still considering the awful sounds he had heard passing the ball park and so fntently that when he hit the bridge he did not stop to notice stalled freight train under 1t.
 A biilowy puff and raucous snort from the engine. accompanied by the digging of the stalled wheels. sent him up two feet and off with yelp of offended dignity and frantic terror. which soon placed him on the city side of the car barns.
 One of the three fleas. disturbed by the rapid motion. took new and deep CT hold and Jack sat down in the road fa harley with him.
 His muzzle snuffling along the top edge of his tail. he did not hear the whirr Of a coasting motor car until 1t was almost on him, and then he dumped just in time.
 With his heart dancing jiggs. he stood in the road and cursed the motor car in a mixture of doggerel that eased his nerves a little, but every time he stopped barking. with his nose up and watching out of the corner of his eye to see if the car was coming back, he would remember something else that might apply to the car and voice 1t loudly.
 His honor satisfied, he started out for the city again at a mule trot.
 Jack saw a cart with several people standing about it and two men with nets holding down something that was suuirming and snarling under the nets. He sat down and scratched absent mindedIy at his stomach while with circling nose he watched what was go- ing on. One thing he was sure of was that the squirmy thing under the nets was a dog, the snarls that came from the nets assured him of that, but what in the name of all exasperating mange could be the matter.
 A sudden whisk of the nets, a bump and yeIp from inside the wagon and Jack saw a spraddle-legged puppy fight dazedly to get out of the wagon
 That sort of business was interest ing and Jack went bounding and yelp- ing forward. Before he knew what struck him. something was flung over him. hard hoops held a net in place and he was pinned to the earth. It didn't hurt, so he lay still wagging his tail and looking up. A hand was thrust under the net, the loose skin pn the back of his neck and shouldeRs was gathered up like a valise handle,