Lower coast gazette., 1913-07-26

VAS TIA MdIy uoN
With poisoned meat. Mrs. sadley pro-
tested that Mary was too tender.heart
ed to hurt a flea; that one of her chief {
was her daughters fond
ness for making up to stray animals.
She called on Mary to deny the old
charge, whereupon Mary pursed
her mouth and made a squeaking noise.
Bolie. the dog, wriggled to her side and
thrust a cold, insinuating muzzle under
her hand. Digby Jones bleary eyes
bulged with establishment. He called
the dog to him and cuffed him smartly.
"You don't deserve to have a dog"
cried Mary.
"Mary"- began her mother.
HE doesn't, ma; he's too stingy and
too contrary to buy a license for Bol'e'
and one of these days the dog-wagon
man'll get him
cWe never give meat to dogs, MT.
Jones; meat is too hard to come pH
protested Mrs. Sadley.
II tell you seen her give my dog
meat!'
"Mary!n walled Mrs. sadley. And
YOU let me talk to the butcher for half
an hour because / thought he'd cheat
ed you on that piece Of liver! II ever
hear of any such thing as this again
I'll punish you hard!!'
"The liver wasn't poisoned SAID
Mary. "and if ever l try to poison any
of your family, Mr.. Jones, it won't be
Bolie. Poor old Bolie!!'
"You needn't waste your sympathy
on my dog; he's the best looked-a1tel
dog in this city. And he's going te
J have something that no other dog evel
had-a mausoleum."
rs that something to eat?' ASKED
Mary.
Q "It,s a tombstone great big, hole
gravestone."
q "Well, then, a mausoleum isn't nue.
, use to a dog; you'd better get him
license"
; what do you know about mauso
: eums?"
= "Well, / guess ! know about then
My pas got one
70 Mary" ~protestedEs her mothe
le "your pa has no %mausoleum, or wha
ever you call it! o my, no, MI. Jone
le it's only about so high, and SO wide!
Mrs Sadley indicated the dimension
20 OF a modest gravestone. 1T takes
=, - long time to pay for a tombstone, eve
= little enc, When you ads Wash'ng i
a living"
"Yet do you realize, ma'am, that tn
little tombstone is all there Is lett
tell the world what kind of a man 20
husband was? Look here!' Dig
: Jones took from his pocket a fat roll
drafting paper. Nov here's a ton
stone that's goin' to be worth while.
paid a man 5000 to get it up in {
first place, and I've been addin' 10
ever since. Here's the plan OF the II
story. sixty by sixty feet, with sto
benches each side Of the door, q
~. carved symbols-solid marble, m
h,s you'll Here's the second base, 9
here's the shaft, 1872 feet high. J
whole thing, with the ground It's g
to stand on, will come to about !
hundred thousand dollars, and Boil
going to have a corner of it all to b
-. self. It's going to be surrounded .
fenced.in, fve-acre park, right in "
will be the heart Of the city"
whats the use of a park where
BODY can walk or play?' deman
Mary.
ITS to keep the boys from thro'
eggs agin the monument
49,. There's no such. %contraption ro
~. pa's grave, but the boys don't II
eggs at his monument, do they ma
"Hush, Mary! You mustn't be sa
If you are I'll punish you, and pu
YOU hard!" promised Mrs. sadley'
"Why don't you do it now?" a
'ne Mr.. Jones. "Ill help you. and
.orv glad to-"
: ~ Mary glanced apprehensively al
mother. It had never happened
,d,ev. but with such encouragement
tower might; and a punishment that
!, nav gathered momentum for twelve
years would probably strike with
siderable force. Therefore, Mary
ona ! under Digby Jones' elbow as he
+;mo in the doorway, and made hersel
won't tn Inc open Deloie sn0 80. !,
man "You say pas tombstone q
amount to much; but he never W
like about the boys throwing eggs
anyhow. And if you die before
blew does, and for want Of q lcens
come dog.man gets him, who's going 7
him out and see that he gets INT
what. marble what-you.may-call-it?
~ ~ didn't earn your money, anywa!
= long Just sit and let the city
,as re- Digby Jones started FORWARD
~. 81 Mary shot across the street az
,at old appeared behind the grocery st'
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