The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-10-06
A Puppy and a Romance

When took that away from him
and put him out of doors he told
the moon all about it and the stars;
and then he got up some kind of
wireless connection with Jupiter
and told him about the heartless
injustice of the world till he fell
asleep.
Where does he get all his energy,
d bike to know, that pupS The
old dog wonders about it, too. /
see him looking at the pup as old
men look on and marvel at the folly
and the magic endurance of youth
'Was | ever like this7i' the old
dog thinks. / can tell by his eyes
and by the satirical twitch Of his
long upper lip. "Was | ever as
foolish and good. humored, and so
outrageous and SO impudent, and so
absolutely happy as that idiot of a
pupi"
And the pup tweaks the old dog
by the tail and woods him by the
scruf Of the neck and snatches the
old dogs bone from his very mouth
and runs away and buries it wag.
ging all the time. How much more
admirable the old dog is than some
men,
There's old Croesus across the
way, his boy is replica Of him
with all the lines and the marks
of conflict rubbed out. Just like
him they say, though we who never
knew Croesus when he was young,
and gay, and light of heart, and
generous, and foolish and extrava-
CANT, can scarcely believe it.
He's in love, is Croesus's SON
dead in love with little Miss Pow
erty around the corner, and little
Miss Poverty is in love with the
son of Croesus, but they don t dare
mention it.
Why7 There's nothing wrong
with little Miss Poverty, except
that she s as yo,LC rs the wife of
Croesus was when be married her,
and she has a pair of dimples Last
night she was looking ut the antics
of the pup and she laughed, and
the corners Of her little cherry of
3 mouth-well, really, if I'd been
the son of Croesus I'd have kissed
that little Miss Poverty then and
there If all the world looked on.
7 had an errand in the house Just
then. Maybe he did kiss her in
the verv face OF the puppy's
interested and absorbed attention
] hope he did for nv part. but
Croesus turns blue il any one even
mentions Miss Poverty's name.
"She s n chit he says. "and
an upstsrt. too. - And yet they
do say that Croesus was in love
with Miss Poverty's mother once
himself, and almost died when she
refused him.
His son is too young TO marry.
Croesus says, too young, and at his
age Croesus had n son and two
daughters.
Oh. those two poor daughters, ev-
eryone is so sorrv for them. Croe-
sus thinks they are the finest girls
in the world, and no one ia good
enough for them.
When a man so much as ventures
10 call on one Of the poor daugh-
ters OF Croesus. Croesus growls so
that the Young man never comes
again, and the poor daughters are
getting older and older and palmer
and palmer.
And tho son Of old Croesus Is
more and more unflial and discou.
tcnted. / heard him say the other
dav he'd rather dig bitches for a
living and be his own master than
10 live in n palace and have every
hair OF his head combed for him
day and night.
I wonder why he doesn't try IL
the ditch digging, I m going 10
ask him the next time he comes
TO see the pup. believe little
Miss Poverty would make fine
wife for a ditch digger. She eau
make bread, thev say. and cake,
too, but IL eggs were high. per
However, IL + were the son OF
Croesus d have a try at the dig
ging--for change.
7 wish old Croesus would come
and see the pu- and notice how the
old dog treats him.
II might teach him lesson
wonder Il IL wouldi
Donit he content with indifferent