The Cairo bulletin., 1909-04-20

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come over to his house
Say said Doe, via the telephone.
come over to nay house and get your
dog
Is it good dog?' I Questioned.
warily
Wen, I guess yes! replied the doe,
its a great graEdtathcr-er / mean
a great grandson of His ItgAness. dog
of Yew that won the worlds fair ay
from Chicago to San-no. / daa,t mean
the worlds fair fly, ! mean the worlds
well, anyhow, you come over and get
your dog!
So | Went over continued Henry
with my heart going Uta.pat ana
with visions Of full-blaad Boston tar=
riers and BIenhejms chasing their tails
through my imagination When / Get
over there. Doe. led me around % tile
back stoop and there was the orneri
est looking Great Dane | ever saw.
eating out Of a tub ana evilly watch
ing us with the white Of his eye.
Lord Doc, said /. 1 don't need a
cow in the family. Why, ! couldn't
feed a dog like that What | want
is a nice, quiet small dog for the kids
to play with.
Say, Lee said the pill man, you
don't know a good dog when YOU see
eHe-sa4ffaetA7 = tTU Is aWFU7Y f0nd
Of children'
lie was, too iichtins'the editorial
pipe he almost ate my youngest the
first time he got loose"
Well, took the darned dog home
that night and tied him to the center
pole Of the basement. My wife and
the kids had gone 10 bed and was
counting sheep hard when all at once
heard an awful racket in the bowels
Of my home, and the house began 10
rock. Just a5 my wife sat upright in
bed / bottled through the door and
down two flights Of stairs into the
basement There va no light in the
basement. ana the first thing did was
to fan over sae dog and b%np my
head against the wash-boiler Tho doc
holted for upstairs and | caught him
by the tai just as he was going
through the sring-room door In the
wrestling match that followed the dog
stepped on my bet corn with a foot as
big as a han, tore my nightshirt from
Alpha TO Omega. and made a wreck OF
rae IN general
Finally / got the dog back down
stairs and shut him up in the coal
bin. Aside from eating two bushels
Of coal, he did no further damage
that night Next morning, bright and
early. I got the kids up 10 see their
new dog. My children are of the stair
step age The youngest is a toddler,
the second one step above and the
third. still one more step They lined
up eXpectantly, awaiting the coming Of
Roger and L.. When the dog saw the
children. he made dash for them He
struck the youngest ike a catapault
The baby fell against his sister and
his sister fell against the eldest and
like a line of ten pins they went down
in heap, the dog on top.
after ! got the kids and the dog |
separated, shut my offspring in the |
house and put the dog in the cellar
again. Then | telephoned for Red |
Nosed Pete TO como up 70 my house.
Pete | said ! want to give Won
all these secondhand clothes and shoes
and a fuil-blood dog, thoroughly house
broken and kind
pete thanked me for the clothes.
bat insisted on me paying him 81 to |
take the dog. Finally ] handed him
The money and told him to depart ia
peace. From row on my kids play |
with TEDDY Bears and ] salute my own
smiling guests. Somebody may hand |
me lemon sometime, but TIL bet |
there isn't "A man On earth that can
give me another dog"
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Random Shots.
Folly is but for a night Repent |
ance is for n lifetime
F1attery has eilded many a bitter |
pill for him who liatcns
Never fear for the mind of WON
m who cries over her grief
The man who becomes great him
self has no need of ancestors.
-p-YsBN WILLIAMS