The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-03-04


come over to his house.
Say, said Doc, via the telephone,
come over to my house and get your
dog!'
rs it a good dog? ! questioned,
warily.
Well guess yes' replied the doc,
It's great grandiather-er, mean
a great grandson of His Highness dog
of Yew that won the. worlds fair fly
from Chicago to San-no, don't mean
the worlds fair fly, / mean the worlds
well. anyhow. you come over and get
your dog
80 | went over continued Henry
with my heart going pit.a-pat and
with visions of fullblood Boston ter.
riers and Blenheims chasing their tails
through my imagination. When ] got
over there. Doc. led me around to the
back stoop and there was the ornerf
est looking Great Dane ever saw.
eating out OF tub and eyilly watch
ing MS with the white of his eye.
Lord. Doc, said |, i don't need a
COW I'm the family. Why. | couldn't
feed 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
one--and, besides he is awfully fond
of children"
"He was, too" lighting the editorial
pipe, "he almost ate my youngest the
first time he got loose"
Wen, I took the darncd dog home
that night and tied him to the center
pole of the basement. My wife and
the kids had gone to bed and | was
counting sheep hard when all at once
! heard an awful racket In the bowels
of my home aud the house began to
rock Just as my wife sat upright In
he'd | bolted through the door and
down two flights OF stairs into the
basement There was no light in the
basement aud The first thing did was
TO fall over the dog and bump my
head against the wash-boiler The dog
bolted for upstairs and | caught him
by the tail just as he was going
through the dlningToom door. In the
wrestling match that followed the dog
stepped on my pet corn with foot as
big as ham, tore my nightshirt from
Alpha 20 Omega, and made wreck of
me 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, | got the kids up to 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 like catapault
The baby fell against his sister and
his sister fell against the eldest and
ike line of ten pins they went down
IN a 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 come up to my house
Pete, said, I want to give you
all these secondhand clothes and shoes
and full-blood dog, thoroughly house
broken and kind
Pete thanked me for the clothes
but insisted on me paying him 50 tc
take the dog, Finally | handed him
the money and told him 10 depart in
peace. From now on my kids play
with Teddy Bears and / salute my own
smiling guests Somebody may hand
me a lemon sometime, but I'll bel
there isn't a man ON earth that can
i give me another dog"
O o O
Random Shots.
Folly is but for night. Repent
ance Is for a lifetime.
Flattery has gilded many a bitter
PLY for him who listens
Never fear for the mind Of a WON
an who cries over her grief.
The man who becomes great hiin