The Virginia enterprise., 1909-12-17

from one end of this county to the
other as the social leader of Betz.
vile, and this is not because she is
distinguished by having the only auto
matte cork leg in the village, but be.
cause she cannot bear to see anyone
unhappy. She spends her life in max.
ing people happy, and that is why her
hostess had no more life than a corpse
her social functions are apt to re,
semble a funeral.
One reason Aunt Rhinocolura was
so fond Of her dog Fido was because
he was such a happy dog. and every
morning he would come to her bed
side and wag his tail, and at single
word from Aunt Rhinocolura he would
run and bring her cork leg, wagging
his tail all the time. Everyone loved
Fido, because he was so cheerful and
such continuous tailwagger. When
ever things got little slow at Aunt
Rhinocolusa's social functions, she
would send out for Fido, and the
whole gang of society ladies and gents
would sit around and watch Fido wag
his tail.
About a month ago a change came
over Fido. Aunt Rhinocolura awoke
one morning and Fido was not at her
bedside. She thought this strange,
but she hoped on one foot T. where
her cork leg reposed, and pit it on
and dressed, and then went to find
Fido, but when she found hin he did
not seem like the same ddg. He
sprang at her with an angry growl,
and bit her on the leg, and might have
injured her severely, had it been the
other leg. AS it was, he me- ade sew
eral ugly dents in the leg. All that
day Fido was as ugly tempered as ia
ther on picture-hanging day, ind did
nothing but sneak around an{ growl
bitterly and show his teeth, apd dur
ing the day he bit eight diffeent So
cial callers in eight different 4aces-
a thing he had never done be- pre-.
Aunt Rhinocolura saw that Eif this
kept on she would cease to b a So
cial leader, the society ladi4 and
gents of Betzville having, as rule,
tender calves, so she sent fo4 Uncle
Ashdod Clute, who knows ai nlus1
about dogs as he knows abo1 any.
thing.
AS soon as Fido had bitten Uncle
Ashdod on the leg, Uncle Ashdd saw
that Fido was not the dog h had
been, and made careful inquiries of
Aunt Rhinocolura, and found lat, as
he suspected all along, Fido hal never
lost his cheerful manner as ing as
he wagged his tail. To prove TIT this
was the case, Uncle Ashdod tod hold
of Fido's tail and wagged 1t ba6x and
forth and Fido Immediately DROP led his
savage manner and smiled swetly, SO
to speak. When he saw thiaUncle
Ashdod shook his head and bid it
was too bad, but Fido had clef case
Of posterior sceorosis, or induraon of
the wag joint of the tail, and hat it
had gone so far that nothin&coilld
be done for it. He explaind that
sceOrosis of the wag joint in / dog
had the same effect that sceorSis of
the liver had on a man, ten6g to
make him peevish and grouch} He
said the wag Of the tail vi the
smile of dog.
When Aunt Rhinocolura heard
this she wept for six minutes, ID her
state might have settled into he of
permanent melancholy, but Au1fRhln.
:colura is not built that way. 1t the
seventh minute she spruced !, and
said that science was all vert well,
b.t she guessed she. got along tth an
al Hfcial leg about as well al tmost
people did with genuine O1 and
that if her Fido couldn't havet nat
ural wag to his tail she wotl see
that he was put into a happy $te Of
mind by supplying him with arti-
fiItal wag. She said ArlO Vkgtns.
tie Betzville Mechanic. had tended !
the second speed differentialtf her
cork leg the time she broke and
she guessed he could rig up wag
If he wcs put at 1t. -
When Arlo rightly understot what |
xaS wanted he went to w4 with