Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-05-25
tail was lost, and the happiness of the
little family for a time destroyed.

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One day Lulu was going somewhere
and did not want to take Snap. When
he began to follow her out of the
room, she turned and said, Snap,
you cannot go with me today" Upon
hearing this, Snap set his little fat
self down on the floor, and lifting his
snub nose high in the air, he uttered
most melancholy howl.
Stop that noise, Snap!' cried Lulu.
Mind me this minute!' she added,
stamping her little foot. Instead OF
doing what he was told, Snap only ut
tered another howl, more dismal than
before.
You are a naughty, naughty dog,
and l shall punish you well. You shall
be locked in this room till I come
back. AS Lulu said this, she rushed
to the door; but Snap had no inten-
ton of staying inside. The very idea!
A dog SO smart as he to be locked up!
He would see! So he, too, started for
the door.
There was just one thing that Snap
did not think of. For the first time
in his life he forgot that he had tail;
so. although he got the whole of his
little fat body outside, his tail was
left behind, and, sad to relate, the
door closed upon it with fearful
bang
Snap yelled with rage and pain; and
Lulu screamed, and mingled her cries
with Snaps. Mamma came and with
Lulu's help carried the little dog into
a room, to see what could be done.
They tried all they could think Of,
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next day papa decided that the poor
bruised tail must be cut off. Lulu 1elt
about it, and all the morse
so, because she saw that Snap cher
ished very hard feelings toward her.
No longer would he allow Lulu to
pet him; no longer was he her COM
panion; and no more were the six
dolls assisted by him to robe and un-
robe. Poor Lulu! many were the
tears she shed, but Snap was
obstinate.
One night the six dolls were set up
as usual, In row, in their white night
gowns; but in the morning, to Lulu's
one was missing. She
hunted the house over, but no trace
Of the doll was to be seen. At night,
still wondering, she undressed and set
up the remaining five.
Morning dawned, and discovered
four dolls sitting up white and stiff,
but one was not. Still more perplexed,
Lulu questioned papa, mamma, and all
the servants, but no one had touched
the dolls. The next morning but three
We're seen.
This was too much for Lulu's ten
der heart; she burst into tears, and
when at night she undressed her re-
naming children, she begged them,
with many sobs, not to die; but she
firmly believed that her lost ones had
died and departed from the earth.
Alas! morning came, and the dolls
had all vanished! will not try to tell
you about Lulu's grief; her tears were
too many to be counted. A whole
week passed with no news from the
dolls.
One morning, just a week after the
loss of her children, Lulu arose, and
suddenly uttered cry Of mingled Joy
and horror at the sight which met her
astonished eyes. There sat the six
dolls in their long trailing nightgowns,
but white no longer. Shocking to re-
late, they were covered with mud from
head to foot.
Lulu's EXPLANATIONS brought mamma
to the spot, and as she opened the
door, in crept Snap. He ran to Lulu
and cast himself on his back at her
feet, just as he had often done when
he wished to beg for mercy. Mamma
could not help laughing, 1t was so
funny.
Advising Lulu to forgive Snap, she
promised to explain 1t all. This Lulu
was quite ready to do, she was so de-
lighted by her children's return. She
petted Snap to his unbounded delight,
and then ran to mama to hear how It
all came about.
Mama told her that, when the first
doll was missed, she and papa had
suspected Snap. They rose very early
the next morning to watch him. Look
ing out of the window, just as the day
was dawning, they saw the little fel-
low come out Of the house with doll
in his mouth.
Trotting swiftly along, he cast the
poor thing into large mud puddle In
the back part of the yard. The next
morning he did the same with an
other, and the next, he carried out
three dolls, one at a time.
Evidently the little dogs conscience
had troubled him; for at the end Of a
week he flshed them all out, and reset
them just as they were when he car
ried them off.
OF course the dolls were spoilt; but
papa made that all right by buying six
new ones; and after this Snap assist
ed the little mother so gravely and du-
tifully as before, in her morning and
evening care of her children, and once
more there lived a happy family.
Thus ended Snaps first and last re-
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