The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1914-04-03
BY ELLA cYGAN.


Amy said" began the girl who
likes to talk. that Bob was gentle AZ
kitten and so affectionate that In
contrast pair of love birds were pet
rif1ed images OF heartlessness. She
said many other things. too, over the
telephone about the bull terrier that
In misguided moment they pur-
chased some time ago, but that was
because she was trying to make me
think ! was crazy to have him while
she and her husband went to Panama
Il was to pass few days with her
and get acquainted with the paragon
of dogs, Amy said that she always
felt perfectly safe with Bob in the
apartment, because he would chew up
any burglar who appeared. On the
way over | grew rather worried, won
dering whether Bob was clever enough
to distinguish between a caller who
was burglar and a caller who wasn't
Then l recalled Bobs gentleness and
took heart.
When the front door was opened
thought the end had come Some
thing huge and white fell across the
hall table, and, stepping all over me,
attempted to climb on my shoulder
and perche there. / screamed family
and wondered IL the Pasteur treatment
hurt much. Then l was conscious OF
Amy's voice.
He's 80 affectionate!" said Amy
n a r. \
to take such an instant liking to any
one before! He realizes that you love
dogs, l am sure!"
I'm crazy about them!' assured
her. as intrenched myself behind two
chairs and davenport. However, l
don't care for these aerial effects my
self! Can't he keep his feet on the
ground?
Amy looked hurt, and said she
should have thought that l would ap-
preciate a dumb animals fondness
for me. She was interrupted by Bob's
giving an exhibition of his dumbness
when he saw the postman out OF the
window. Dashing at the glass at
speed Of so miles an hour, he let out
roar that shook the apartment Then
he turned and wagged his tail and
twinkled his eyes. l think these dogs
greatly enjoy life. 1t must be fine to
feel that you can make the whole uni
verse bow to the ground and climb
trees If you wriggle your chin or flop
an ear.
Il unpacked my suitcase neatly and
then when l went to dress for dinner
/ found that Bob had eaten the heels
of my evening slippers.
It's the funniest thing' Amy said,
enthusiastically, when l walled out
the trouble. That dog always has
had the most insane fondness for shoe
heels We couldn't have decent
shoe in the house when we first got
him. He Is SO intelligent
When Bob was taken out of doors
1t was with as many precautions as
though he were q man eating tiger.
For my part / would as soon sally
forth with the jungle beast as with
that animal. He had a harness on
OF battleship leather-well, they have
battleship linoleum. anyhow-and
snapped to that was a leash with a
loop to go over your wrist and then
you had whip.
Il felt as though the band was 60
Ing to play as l entered the sawdust
ring when l took Bob outdoors that
day. He shot up the street instantly.
and as it was slippery l hung on and
slid, shrieking at him to stop Pre-
tending it was game, that diabolcal
animal merely tore on, whisking me
around corner into a perambulator,
but maybe l crawled under-anyhow,
| was half block ahead before the
nurse had picked herself up from the
ground, and Bob was 80 impetuous
that couldn't return to inquire.
1T might have been all right II he
hadn't seen cat. Amy said after
ward reproachfully that l shouldn't
have allowed him TO see a cat. How
ever, she did not say whether
should have run in front of Bob and
held my hands over his eyes or chic
reformed him till the cat had strolled
by. II | had fancied up to now that
Bob had been fastening, | was mis-
taken. He had been dawdling, but
when he saw that cat he turned on
full speed
All | remember is hurting through
the air, hanging to the leash for dear
life, for Amy had cautioned me that
] had the safety of the public in my
hands, and so l dared not let go. Bob
spread himself low over the ground
and just ate up the distance We
chased that cat down the street. then
through an alley and then whizzed up
the steps Of big house just as the
front door opened and perfectly love-
ly man emerged attired for an after
noon wedding or tea-fight.
Il let Bob go then, because fell
over the top step.
The tea-fight man, after rising from
where he had been tossed by Bob,
picked me up. There were awful
sounds OF riot from inside the house
where Bob had freed the cat on a
mantel. 1t really was an unusual sit
uation.
He is such an intelligent dog