Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-07

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at different angle to mine, SO that we had hard
struggle between pulling against each other for quite
a distance.
LET CO. SPORT" | cried Don't you see that you're
working dead against me, and making botch OF
things?'
appreciate my services, Ill let you do the business
alone and he did let disgust leaving the task for
me The always quitter).
So, being unhampered, proudly pulled the boat
ashore Comrade kept shouting his praises to me- to
prevent me from losing courage That's right old
fellow, that's right!'
Of course knew what right meant so nothing
could have induced to give up. / should have
brought that boat in had had to shove it in with
my Oh, but wasn't proud when l had placed
that in his hand, and wasn't he proud OF me too!
He Rugged me and patted me on the head and back,
and pressed my cheek against his face-l always knew
when he did that he particularly well pleased with
me- Sport up and wanted to share the petting,
and he got just little, to spare his feelings; but knew
where | stood.
Afterward 1 had to rehearse the same performance
several times, in order to be photographed in the act
and incidentally to bolster up my Comrades YER
acity Instinct, you see, had nothing to do with my
dropping the oar and swimming round the boat,
looking for something by which | could easily
order of it.
well" said Sport, a hope your appetite for praise
has been satisfied You may be better swimmer than
/; but can beat you runnng!
"Of course you with those long legs of yours,
little weight 1t BRAIN that counts
boy not long legs. Who is called upon, | ask you,
when there anything to be done that requires ntell
gence?"
None of us is perfect, though; for frequently when
Comrade comfortably seated in his library smoking
cigar, he sent upstairs to fetch his slippers and |,
having my mind preoccuped with weight1er matters,
would make mistake and bring down slipper
and one shoe. When my attention called to it. how
ever returned the shoe and brought down the other
slipper.
AMONG his many interests Comrade also
chicken fancier and owned lot of black Spanish
large size each morning in the bottom of empty
-four barrel that stood upright in woodshed Every
morning before breakfast he would join me in romp
and for this She'd about four hundred feet from the
house. get the egg One morning he very late in
coming down the back door; but when he finally did
appear he found standing there waiting, holding
head very steadily and with my tail scarcely moving.
He saw at by my actions that must have
thing in my mouth; SO he said holding his hand under
my chin:
What have you got in your mouth Lion7 Spit it
l turned my head sidewise and dropped large egg
into his hand; which afforded great relief for
but myself knows how long l had been standing
there holding my mouthful. He looked at and then
at the egg in perfect wonderment scarcely able to be-
Eeve it; but when out to the woodshed he found
the proof in the barrel lying its side You
big and heavy that had pulled down the barrel in
my effort to get that egg.
Of course l had to be taken into the house to tell
that had not cracked the egg. On all previous
sons when Comrade had taken the egg out of the bar
REL he had shown it called my attention