The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1912-03-29
JOHN ScOTT'S pup
He Is an kffectionate Critter
and Dearly Loves His Master
YET He GOT HIM IN TROUBLE


ouecred John With His Wife and
Gave colbr to'Her Cruel Suspicion.
One of the1most touching things In
nature Ia the affection of dog for its
master Authors have wept over this
before now indeed In some cases
canine airection would make cube of
billiard chalk weep.
John Scott has an affectionate dog.
1t is a young dog. but joyful. and he
keeps it in the cellar at night The
dog and the furnace are great friends.
probably because contrasted natures
agree wen The dogs nature is warm,
and the furnaces nature is cold. But
he pup simply adores John Scott
One night John Scott left the ban
quet of the Petonic club at o'clock
in the morning when his wife had told
him positively 20 be home at 1920.
She had told him also to drink but one
cocktail That was the only cocktail
he drank. but In the bright lexicon of
banquets there are other drinks. The
care free vet digniied manner in which
John Scott wended his homeward way
gave proof that he had studied the lex
icon.
He was not Intoxicated. He could
still lift his feet as he walked. but
when he bad lifted a foot he waved it
In the air moment before he decided
just where to set it down. and 1t did
not always hit, the exact spot he had
selected. But his brain was clear as
n bell He remembered that he must
put coal in the furnace before he went
to bed
When he opened the cellar door the
pup was asleep on his bed in box.
but by the time John Scott had de-
scended the cellar stairs the pup and
its affectonate nature We're wide
awake. The pup gave one little bark
of joy and rushed across the cellar like
a rubber shoe fred out Of cannon and
stopped itself by making flying tackle
with its teeth on the hem of one of the
legs of John Scott's dress trousers.
John Scott swayed, put out a hand and
fectionately climbed into his lap and.
putting two coal dusty paws on John
Scott's shirt bosom, kissed him.
This evidence Of canine affection was
too much for John Scott He COM
pared 1t with. the reception he would
probably receive from Mrs. Scott. and
he was 30 affected that he hugged the
pup to his bosom and wept. Then be
placed the pup carefully on the cellar
| floor and stood up. The pup immedi-
ately got between his feet. threw him
twice as he walked to the coal bin and.
when he bent down to pick up the coal
scoop, grabbed the tail of his dress
coat In death grip.
Mr.. Scott divested himself Of the
pup by taking of his coat and hang
ing 1t on nail--the one the poker
hangs on. All indications pointed to q
permanent suspension OF the pup. The
pup hung TO the coattail. and the coat
hung on the nall, and MIR, Scott turned
10 the coal bin. He raised the scoop
ready 10 plunge 1t Into the coal. but
AS he did so he paused. The pup was
standing on tho coai. just where the
scoop was about to scoop up coal. At
intervals the pup would dash down
and worry the heel of Mr.. Scott's dress
trousers, but whenever the scoop ap-
preached the coal the pup got In front
Of It. Sometimes MIR. Scott scooped up
the pup, aud sometimes he missed the
pup. the coal and the bin. but when.
ever he got coal he got the pup too.
IL by chance he got coal In the scoop
without any pup the pup showed its
canine affection by Jumping into the
SCOOP, Then the coal and pup would
slide OF the SCOOP on to the floor.
Not for worlds would John Scott
have shovcled the affectionate pup into
the furnace, hut he saw that he was
likely to do so any minute IL he con.
WAS but one way to get the coal into
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