The Tupelo journal., 1910-01-07
Journal Of a
Neglected Bulldog
By BARBARA BLAIR


Say, 1t takes a fool to make a fool
Of q man, doesn't 1t? To think that
a clever, brainy man like my master
would neglect an intelligent and
i gifted bulldog like myself for a silly
girl like this one. Why, she doesn't
know anything-or, If she does, she is
! careful not to let anybody else know
1t.
She never says anything sensible,
though l grant you she can chatter
in an amusing enough way, that is for
q woman. Put her conversation
doesn't appeal to me-. Some people
may like that sort of thing, but l
don't. But as for my master-well,
the first time she smiled on him he
went down like the last tenpin which
is hit by the ball of an expert.
1t is remarkable the things she can
make him do with that smile. She
doesn't say much at these times, she
just looks up in his eyes and smiles,
and-well, that smile does the rest.
She has a large assortment Of
smiles. When she turns her dreamy
smile on him l have e en him tremble
and sigh and grow pale. Absurd. l call
it. ! can show my teeth and growl
savagely and he doesn't do any OF
these things.
If the girl frowns or looks as If she
were going to cry, my master just
laughs at her and calls her baby" 1t
is when she smiles that he seems to
be afraid of her.
Odd that a smile should have such
a remarkable effect upon him, isn't it?
My smile don't.
i must say that she can smile in
more ways in less time than any girl
/ ever saw, and being my masters
dog, l have met a good many girls
in fact, almost all of his girls.
She has a dreamy smile and a
merry smile, a rebuking smile and an
innocent smile, a sarcastic smile and
a naughty smile, a pleading smile and
a questioning smile, a teasing smile
and a loving smile. To be sure. my
master doesn't call them these names
to him they are all adorable" and
"bewitching."
To-day she said to my master:
Don't you think, dear, Bob is very
Interestingly" (Innocent smiley
NO" said my master, in a voice
very much like mine, Il don't"
s'He has such beautiful eyes. Don't
you just love his eyes?" dreamy
smile.)
THAT is the second time you have
told me about Bob's eyes," growled
my master. at seems to me you are
thinking a good deal about Bob lately"
Il have mentioned him several
times, haven't 1? l wonder-?' (Ques-
tioning SMILEY
"There is no doubt in my mind that
you care a good deal more for him
than you do for me. Now, if"
why. surely. dear, you are not
jealous?" (Rebuking SMILEY
Jealous? OF curse not. Absurd!
AS if could be jealous Of ar insult
ferable bore, a conceited idiot, a brain
less, vapid, empty, intolerable little
saphead like Bob"
Gr-gr-gr-grerrrr-I couldn't have
done it better myself.
why, everyone says he is SO clever.
He is the most popular man ! know.
And he has such charming manners;
he is so gentle and always speaks SO
well of everyone. And you know,
dear, his eyes are attractive. When
he looks at me in that charming little
way, l must confess +" eloquent
pause, dreamy SMILEY
My master sprang to his feet, his
eyes wild. l sprang to mine and stood
by his side, my teeth showing and my
hair bristling.
"How wonderfully alike you two
look" (Teasing smile.)
"You are a wretched little f1irt,"
cried my master.
"Gr-gr-gr-grrrrr," l added.
"Oh, Jack" (Pained smiley "Why.
Jack. | just couldn't firt, no matter
how hard l should try. That is my
greatest fault"
"Quite so" snapped master.
"Gr-gr,' / said, savagely.
Il mean it is my greatest fault;
that l always say exactly what l feel.
Jack, dear, you know this?" pleading
SMILEY
Il wish | could think So" said my
master, but"
/ lay down again.
You must think so, you dear old
boy. Please don't be horrid any more,
Jack. If you knew how unhappy you
make me when you are" flowing
smiley
/ didn't hear any more until my
master said Goodnight" a n hour
later.
/ love my master, but oh, you girls!