The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-15
TIE EVENING STORY
Her Ten Cent Dog.
(Rv Donald Allen.l

II was on the SmOOLn highway III
front of villa on the banks of the
Connecticut river. Miss Viola Rams
den, visiting the family stood at the
gate as a lad about IL years of age
came along leading a dog. 1t was a
small dog, and it looked detected and
lonely.
No boy leads a dog the way a man
does. He hauls and pulls and jerks
and uses menaces and threats. No
matter whether the dog leads willingly
or unwillingly, the treatment is about
the same. This boy was pull-hauling
this dog about and telling him how he
would knock his head off and break
his ribs and bury him alive, when the
girl stepped in front of him and said:
boy, you ought to be ashamed of
yourself to use little dog in this way!
You've got the rope so tight around
his neck that he's almost choked!'
"Mabbe you'd like to speculate %
queried the lad with an impudent leer.
This dog and me can be parted for
the small sum of ten cents. Want to
pay it?"
your dog?"
Born in the same house and brung
up like brothers. I do not love him,
however, and I'm taking him down the
road to his DOOM BY investing the
small sum of dime you preserve his
life
.'Ir buy him." said Miss Viola.
you wait right here till I bring the
money
Five or six minutes later the canine
had changed hands and the boy was
making off. The family laughed at the
visitor for her softness of heart, but
when the purchase had been bathed
and combed and dried and fed he was
an altogether different looking animal.
Say, now" said the master of the
house i've seen that dog some
where in the city following some man
VIII Godfrey's dog. If il is"
But shan't give him up,' said the
girl. 81 paid ten cents for him, and
''Mr. Godfrey is very nice young
man.
His ' father owns the wooden
mills
THAT makes no difference"
"And if he knew that his dog and a
good looking young lady were here
he'd certainly invent some excuse to
call"
"And he'd be told that neither of
us was at home! 1t can't be his dog.
The boy said he and tie dog were
born in the same house. He was an
impudent boy, but I don't think he
lied Therefore. if Mr. Godfrey or
sent about his business
The ten cent dog had struck a ten
thousand dollar home, and he just set
out to take solid comfort He was
full of romp and play AID tricks, and
he had no idea of resigNsrg. On the
fourth day of his reign he accompan-
led his mistress down to the boat
house She could not manage a row
boat but she meant to learn. She had
said nothing to any member of the
family, and thus had not been warned
that besides being Inhabited by shad
made up of millions of bones apiece,
there were snags, eddys. cross currents
and other perils to beware Of
1t was good to see tho confidence
with which the girl stepped into a row
boat and got out the o5-rs after de-
posting the dog "Gyp" n a comfort
able spot She had once attended a
regatta and witnessed some beautiful
rowing, and she felt she could row just
like that if the time ever came 1t
had come now With oars slipping
and sliding and splashing, she got far
enough from shore for the current to
seize the craft and take control 1t
was not a rapid current, and Miss
Viola was not alarmed. She rather
fancied the drifting until "Gyp" began
to bark in an uneasy way She child
ed him. but he kept it I'D until she
saw that her boat was drifting on
haIf-sunken scow. In her attempt to
use the oars they both were floating
away.
The barking of the dog and the
screams of the girl were for help. No
one in sight! There was boat house
a quarter of a mile below. but no one
about the place. For ten cent dog,
that "Gyp'' did a heap o. barking
With his nose pointed at the boat
house he made as much noise as If he
weighed a hundred pounds Straight
on to the old scow drifted the skiff.
and when it struck there was cap
size Into the water went the girl and
dog The girl secured a precarious
hold on the scoW to keep her head
above water and the ten cent dog
swan about in circles and continued
to bark After two or three minutes
boy appeared on the bank and
shouted:
Hang on, girl! There's Teller
comm in a boat!'
Miss Viola saw the craft pulling to-
ward her with a rush. It was
Young man at the oars. The dog
hailed him with new note in his bark
and swan to meet him, ard as he was
taken into the boat she heard the
young man excIaim:
ITS my stolen Sport to be surel
was sure it was his bark"
Right this way to the rescued"
called the boy.
Next minute the boat was at hand,
and it had come none ton soon- The
young man leaned over and picked up
the girl and deposited her in the boat
in a way to show that lie had Guilt
waited his muscle. and the dog almost
went wild over the rescue
BY all the laws of nature Miss
Viola should have at least partially