Holbrook argus., 1912-11-26
Bill of Fare

Ice. we Ne JuSl udu tO CulOTOlOrM our last dog" sighed Mrs. Mack re- signedly. "He had such 3 bad tenn per. No, we didn't bury him-we couldn't unless We dug up the alley, and we might have been arrested for that. And it's so disagreeable to keep a dog around waiting for the authori- ties to take him away that the boys just took him down the street few blocks late at night and put him in one of the vestibules.
 "No, of course, didn't inquire So I don't know what they did with him. Now we're looking around for another dog"
 Mrs. Mack frightened perceptibly as she viewed the prospect of. having a new pet. You know, it's awfully lone some without 8 dog" she said. But let me tell you one thing-the next dog Is going to have a very different bring Ing up.
 "Our first dog was tiny black and tan, and he was such baby that we fed him with cream through 8 piece of cotton. It was all very well for few days while the feeding was g novelty but after that no one wanted to. feed him-and I simply had to! And when he got big enough to eat common fare he simply refused to touch it. So there I had to pay for an extra bottle of cream every blessed day for that dog!
 "Tt was months before he'd think of taking a drop of the cream without the cotton, too! Well, the dog catch CTS got him at last. and I was so tired of feeding him that I didn't try to bail him out.
 "Then we had Fanny. Fanny was 8 tiny fuzzy puppy, and we simply adored her. But I thought I was wise after my experience with the black and tan, and I wouldn't feed her par ticle of cream. made up my mind that everything she ate and got used to while she was young should be just the common fare from the table. And I insisted that she should get to lik. ing vegetables while she was too young to know any better.
 "We got Fanny in the spring, when We had fresh vegetables. Later on used to save skins and ends of the to- matoes and cook them up with other things as I had to feed Fanny.
 "That dog was splendid about it, too; ate every scrap gave her, and I was delighted. That is, until the fall came and tomatoes were too high to bay every day.
 '1 cooked up Fanny's dinner as usu- al-and the little scamp refused to eat! After day or two got scared. [ thought she was going to be i'll, so tried all sorts of delicacies to tempt her appetite. but it was of no use. She simply wouldn't eat and she grew thin as 8 lath!
 Finally one day we had guests, and had salad agaiu-and unthinkingly I fixed up Fanny's food as usual. And She ate and ate and ate-and when she had finished all I had to give her she lay by her plate and kept her nose over 1t, just daring any one to take it awayl It was the tomatoes! She had had them every day since she was puppy, and she couldn't eat without them!
 After Fanny died-we used to buy canned tomatoes after that and it real ly wasn't very expensive, though it was nuisance--we got collie.
 Collie was 8 fine blue ribbon dog, and my husband was a lot prouder of him than he was of his whole family combined. He'd strut up and down in front of the house by the hour airing the dog, just as of the dog hadn't been out the whole blessed day airing him. self! Collie used to get the best of dog biscuit and choice cooked bits of meat He wouldn't even look at the things that ordinary dogs eat. and we didn't expect him to. His beauty and lineage entitled him to the best and we gave 1t to him willingly.
 However, when summer came we planned to go away as usual. We thought we'd go west, and the first thing was to plan for was that Collie should be we'll taken care of. We asked all our friends who knew Collie well to take care of him in our ab- sence, but they all refused, gently but frmly-I couldn't think why. Finally my husband asked a friend of ours out in the country to take Collie, and he consented. We sent Collie out there the day we left on our little trip.