The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-10-13

Last Wednesday Rickshaw Phipps,
who has been living in the old boat
house on the river two miles south
of Betzville, came up to town to see
DR.. Tropp, and the doctor sent him
back home with two quarts OF nerve
restorer and box of small yellow
pills that taste like all-get-out. When
seen by a reporter of the Betzville
Times, Rickshaw was standing on the
corner by the Betzville hotel, with
tears running down his face and some
thing that looked like 200 feet of yell
low garden hose wrapped on an old
hose reel. 1t was evident that Rick
shaw was a nervous wreck, and that
he had recently been under terrible
strain.
Rickshaw said that nothing he had
ever undergone in his life had so
upset him as what happened last
Wednesday night. 1t seems that about
a year ago Rickshaw found brand
new litter of pigs in his pig-pen, and
thought nothing of it, exsept that he
was lucky to have such large clean
litter: but suddenly he noticed that
one of the baby pigs was cleaner and
handsomer than the others, and
seemed to avoid the society OF it's
brothers and sisters.
He said he thought little of it. how.
ever, and might have forgotten it, but
that when he went back to his house
boat he happened to look down, and
there was the little clean pig at his
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against his legs showed him at once
that it was a case of love at first
sight, and the pig would sit and look
at Rickshaw with love and admiration
in it's eyes, seeking to tell Rickshaw
as best it could that it thought he
was about the wisest and handsOmest
and best man in the whole wide
world. 1t touched Rickshaw to the
heart, but he said he felt that he
should not show any favoritism, so he
put the little pig back in the pen.
The next day the same thing hap
pened. The minute he got back tt
the huuse-boat, there was the little
pig. rubbing affectionately against hi
ankles. &c. just to show the little
creature there was no hard feelings
he named it Bedelia, but, in order tt
show Bedelia that certain rules mus
be observed, he took the little pi'
back to the pen. Very well, bu
when he got back to the house-boa'
there was Bedela!
Rickshaw said he was puzzled, bu
he went back to the pen, and there
in one corner, was a little round hol
no bigger around than his fist, AM
that was where Bedelia had squeezed
out. He said he would have file
up the hole then and there, but n
knew how fast little pigs grow. an
he felt that by the next day Bedell
would probably be too big to squeez
through that hole. anyway, so he lie
1t be. But the next day Bedelia wa
out again. Out, and smuggling II
to Rickshaw, and making sleeps eye
at him.
BY the end of the week Ricksha'
felt that Bedelia must be stunte
pig, for no ordinary pig OF her ag
l. could have got out Of that hole, an
e about then was when he noticed SOM
). thing peculiar about Bedelia. Sh
u looked more like dachshund tina
= any well-shaped pig; long and thi
" and low were her general characte
istics. Rickshaw thought about
a awhile, and then he took Bedelia ar
s. locked her in the boat house and lie
e her there for week, and she gre
e and grew, and then he took her al
&c locked her in the pen again, and h
- behind a tree and watched. +
TO- awhile she looked mournfully at Il
locked gate and then tears ran dov