Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-10

emitting little means at the prospect Of sen.
aration. The brakeman had to stand on ths
steps of the train and kick him off till Va
got started AT times he seemed to be try.
ing so hard to talk to you that it was really
painful.
But outside of his own family he was ths
devil incarnate. Everybody in town feared
and hated him, 1 am sorry to say. He wasn't
afraid to fight anything, from a muslsrat 10
an elephant, and he went around looking for
trouble. Usually he found 1t. Certain timn
friends of ours used to telephone when they
were coming to call so we could lock Hickey
up In advance. In short, Hickey was a real
Airedale! And there is nothing in the dog
line which can touch real Airedale
The Bringing-up of Barney
He was 2 years older than Barney, and
brought Barney up, when the collie was only
a feeble ball of white and tiger-tan wool
He taught him how to fight though tho
pupil never put the lessons to any practical
USE He supervised his meals, always letting
the collie eat first. He went with him on
every expedition, and tried pathetically hard
to instruct the collie in the art of burrowing
into q muddy bank for muskrats Above all
he constituted himself the gentler dogs pro.
tector from canine attack, and after Barney
grew to weigh more than so pounds, carry
Ing his great whitc ruff with the air Of
lordling, 1t was comical to see the Alredals
bristle and show his teeth and work in be-
tween Barney and any strange dog who was
trying to scrape acquaintance
Now, Hickey knew certain intonations Of
Barney's bark which were indlstngulshabs
to our human ears Time and again have
seen Barney, when the two dogs were not
together, spy something which caused him to
bark. Sometimes. in answer. there would
come from far off the rising shriek-fof
shrek is the only word to describe that
demoniacal sound-of Hickey's battle cry
and presently Hickey himself would appear,
like brown streak, to the rescue the shrek
pouring out behind him like a comets tall Of
sound. If 1t was another dog which caused
Barney to bark, the brown streak hit him
like a ten-inch shell. If nothing was In
sight when Hickey arrived, he tore madH
about in the underbrush. searching.
But at other times when Barney barksd
Hickey would make no response, OF course
If the bark meant "going for -a-wah"
Hickey appeared promptly, but quietly, was-
ging his stump of tail There were very
evidently some occasions when Barney zen
he needed help in handling the proposition
and he said so in his bark. At other TINES
he was not sufficiently alarmed to serd out
his S. o. S.
Where's Hickey?
Curiously enough, Hlckey's own vocabu-
larry was more limited than Barney's, though
he was a much cleverer dog 1t was largely
limited to love and hate, the latter eu'
in his diabolical battle shrek. oa
the other hand the human vocabulary whiea
he could comprehend was very much larsai
He knew all the family by name, for ~
stance. and 1t was difficult to believe that %
did not often understand conversations, Ia
we never began planning trip from hons
The evening before that he did not beeoma
wstful and cling to our heels and try to gss
INTO our chamber to sleep.
| have not prayed for Hickey's soui
he is now, IL he doesn't like Ins
people there, he is making them uncomfor'
able! On the other hand If he does llAs
hem. that place Is Heaven. and hope whaa
enter may feel him launched against ny
'hest and hear the familiar little human
whine of love and welcome.