The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-08-18
by DONALD ALLEN.
Copyright 1911. by the Associate
Literary Press

| Literary Press.)
/ 1t was on the smooth highway In
/ front of villa on the banks Of the
/ Connecticut river. Miss Viola Rams
! den. visiting the family, stood at the
gate as lad about twelve years of
age came along leading a dog. II
was q small dog, and it looked detected
and lonely.
No boy leads a dog the way a
man does. lie hauls and pulls and
jerks and uses menaces and threats,
No matter whether the dog leads Will
iugly 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 this way.
You've got that rope SO tight around
his neck that he's almost choked,"
"Mabbe you'd like TO speculate ?"
quertsd the lad with an impudent
leer. This dog and me can be part
| ed for the small sum of ten cents.
Want to pay IL"
ooh. You want TO sell 1t: Is It
your dog 2"
/ 4SpI ii Al LAG rtAAiAN AASANs fl!4o 40 UitS
up Ike brothers. / do not love him.
however. and I'm taking him down
the road 10 his doom. BY invest
ins the small sum Of a dime you
preserve his life
"Iu buy him" said Miss Viola.
You wait right here TIL l bring the
money"
Five or SIX minutes later the can
Inc had changed hands and the boy
was making off. The family laughed
ut the visitor for her softness Of heart.
| but when the purchase had been bath
/ ed and conbed and dried and fed he
WAS an altogether different looking
animal
Say. now" said the master of the
house. I've seen that dog somewhere
in the city following some man about
Let's see ! do believe It's Win God
Grey's dog II il is
But / shan't give him up, said
/ the girl. Il paid ten cents Tor him
and he's mine"
Mr.. Godfrey is a very nice young
man"
| Il don't care
His father owns the wooden mills"
That makes no difference
And Ii ne knew that his dog and
Il good-looking young lady We're here
1
CALL
And he'd be told that neither Of
! us was at home! 1t can't be his dog.
The boy said he and the dog were
born in the same house. He was an
impudent boy, but / don't think he
lied. Therefore. If Mr.. Godfrey or
MIR. anybody else comes here he'll be
sent about his business.
The ten cent dog had struck q ten
i thousand dollar home. ana he just set
tout to take solid comfort. He was
full OF romp and play and tricks. and
ne had no idea of resigning. ON the
fourth day of his reign he acCompa-
MED his mistress down 10 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 We're snags eddys, cross
currents and other perils to beware
of.
1t was good to see the confidence
with which the girl stepped into a
r0wboat and got out the oars after
depositing the dog "Gyp' in a COM
Portable sport. She had once attended
"a regatta and Witnessed some beauti-
full rowing, and she felt she could row
just like that II the time ever came.
1t had come now. With oars Slip
ping and sliding and splashing. she
got far enough from shore for the
current to seize the craft and take
control. 1t was not q rapid current,
and Miss Viola was mot alarmed. She
rather fancied the drifting until "Gyp'
4 began to bark in an uneasy way. She
chided him, but he kept it up until
she saw that her boat was drifting
/ down on half-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 a hoathouse
a quarter Of a mile below, but no one
about the place, For a ten cent dog.
that "Gyp" did heap of barking.
With his nose pointed at the boat
house he made as much noise as If
he weighed q hundred pounds
| Straight on To the Old scow drifted
the skiff, and when it struck there
was a capsize. Into the water went
girl and dog. The girl secured a pre-
carious hold on the scow to keep her
head above water, and the ten cent
dog swan about in circles and con-
I tinued to bark. After two or three
minutes "a boy appeared on the bank
and shouted:
Hang on. girl! There's a feller
comm in a boat''
1 Miss Viola saw the craft pulling To-
ward her with rush 1t was "A young
man at the oars. The dog hailed him
with a new note in his bark and swan
to meet him, and as he was taken into
the boat she heard the young man Elk
claim:
Its my stolen Sport to be sure!
! was sure 1t was his bark"
Fright this way to the rescue!" call
cd the boy.
Next minute the boat was at hand
and 1t had come none too soon. The.
young man leaned over and picked up
the girl and deposited her in the boat
in a way to show that he had cult
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 tainted