The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1912-02-15
Jimmy
Gets a Dog

vociferous pleas and admitted that 1t
might be possible to permit him to
have a dog to play with. Up to that
time they had been able to match his
easing by succinct and comprehen-
sive moi" But now life was vastly
different.
Every homecoming of the elder
members of the family, If not greeted
by "Didyuh bring my dog?" was hailed
with the wall, when kin | have my
dog?" or "Whut kind of a dog is IL
I'm going to get?" until the King
thornes reached the stage where their
opinion on dogs as whole was so
intense that IL was wordless.
The situation led to dissensions also,
| for both Kingthorne and his wife ac-
cused the other of having been the
one who said the fatal word of assent.
The peace of the family was gone. and
| The more they argued the worse Il
grew. OF the lot Jimmy was the
| most injured, for with all the bicker.
ng because of a dog there wasn't any
dog.
You said could have a dog!" he
| invariable ended in the plaintively ac-
cusing tone before which all well
brought up parents shrink.
When the Kingthornes had time to
look for a dog they never could find
an attractive one, and If they did see
a possibility they lacked the time.
Sitting in her living room one after.
noon conversing with visitors about
green tomato pickles. Mrs. Kingthorne
after staring from the window. gave
little shrek
"Just the thing!" she cried. How
did It get there?'
"What?" demanded her caller.
There aren't green tomatoes growing
out there!"
"Pickles?" repeated Mrs. King.
horne, dreamily. mo, it's a dog ri
| oesn't seem to belong to any one,
e.ther!"
Everybody looked. The dog was
most apparently youthful, because ii
still wabbled slightly when II walked,
or. rather, rolled For II was fat and
aobular, made still more so by al
! tiick coat of woolly brown fur. From
ne end Of the brown mass pink
nose stuck out and from the other
end protruded tiny plumed tail. lie
really was too much like an ideal
urpy TO be quite true.
There isn't soul in sight" as.
"erted Mrs. Kingthorne. And nobody
would let puppy like that go for a
walk alone, so II must be lost It'll
get stepped on or stolen or something,
and to own II would send Jimmy into
ysterics OF joy, so. really, | think II
is my duty to rescue the puppy, don't
you?"
Everybody wanted to see the puppy
e close range, so everybody said
Yes" Mrs. Kingthorne went out and
brought the animal In.
Don't dogs have germs and
things?" demanded one OF the visit
ors. 1T is likely to give Jimmy some.
thing, isn't it?"
That was why everybody followed
Mrs Kingthorne down into the laun
dry to see her give the waif a bath
lie was very little and the tub was
very big and the soap was exceed.
ingly fluffy, so 1t took four of them
to wash and dry him. Afterward he
frisked in front of a crate fire and
Mrs. Klngthorne admired herself ex
tremely for finding him.
Jimmy, for some reason, was late,
but presently Kingthorne arrived. He
seemed a little dazed at the chorus
Of joyful shrieks and the bundle OF
brown wool that was thrust at him.
Welt" he murmured in a puzzled
tone. THAT doesn't look a bit like
the one"
THE one!" cried Mrs. Kingthorne.
What one, and what is lt?"
The bell rang just then and King.
thorne went to the door. When he
rejoined them he was leading by a
leash an Airedale pup A grown-up
Airedale is without doubt the ugliest
dog yet invented, but an Airedale pup
transcends by hundred degrees the
gliness of the grown-up Airedale.
There is no use in trying to tell what
Kingthorne's pup looked like, because
| II adequate words could be found no
body would believe the description
anyhow.
Kingthorne spoke into the immense
silence almost deflantly. Hes
bench dog" he said "All my life
I've wanted an Airedale-and | am
sure Jimmy will be crazy about this
one. So will you when you get used
to his looks and appreciate his noble
nature. That brown, woolly thing
hasn't any class, my dear"
We'll, like him!" cried Mrs. King
thorne, Indignantly.
Jimmy slammed into the house just
then. Something slammed In with
him. 1t was an overgrown, calflike
creature, all legs and tail and tongue,
with great ugly head, and its style
OF architecture was a combination OF
everything from early Greek down.
He's mine" Jimmy cried, proud
ly. IAN ashcart man gave him to me.
an he's goin' to sleep in my room