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A|RY TALL
s. hAQN COMMUNICATIVE
PEXINGESE PUPPIES.

"Well, 1 am not surprised" said Yen
Wang.
81 am glad to hear it," barked Choo
Foo.
"What makes you so pleasant to-
day?" asked Yen Wang.
1.-THE same reason which is making
YOU pleasant" said Choo Foo. And
next year I VIII be more pleasant thah
you are today. Yes will. Indeed,
WILL"
mo. YOU won't" barked Yen Wang
GROSSLY. "You will never be more
pleasant than I am today.
"It would seem that I am more
pleasant now" said Choo Foo.
ooh. you may be talking or barking
more cheerily. but I mean, sa'd zen
Wang, that you haven't the cause
for being more pleasant than l am TO-
day."
ssThen if YOU have every reason 10
be more pleasant, be pleasant saio
ChOo Foo.
81 NAV take your advice and L may
not" said Yen Wang. "1ou must re-
member that I am very highly bred'
and can do as like. L don't nave
tn he kind or nice or friendly, for L
am valuable and my family tree Is per-
feet"
"What do you mean by family
tree?" asked Choo Foo.
my dear Dog" said Yen Wang, "a
family tree means that person or
dog has fine ancestors. My ancestors
for example, came from China. The!
were highly bred. They did not have
70 look after themselves and pick up
homes anywhere and everywhere.
They were fed royalty and masnlfl-
Gently"
"Well, II that is what it means TO
have q family tree" said Choo FOO
II have one, too. l came from emma.
I have had fine grandparents ana
sreat-grandparents, which are the
same as ancestors. And my family
have never gone a-hunting for bones.
"Well," said Yen Wang. "that Is
fine. I know you have family tree
for If you hadn't, you wouldn't De
here"
sHave all the dogs family trees VINO
are hereY' asked Choo Foo.
ssEvery one Of them," said Yen
Wang. "You see that this is a special
dog show, given by club called the
Pekingese club.
sThey named the club after US
That was an honor to begin with, but
we are deserving of all honors, for we
are SO highly born. so artistocratic' Sc
beautiful and so snobbish.
"And they are holding dog show,
as said before; but it's not COM
mon dog show. It's dog show where
only Pekingese dogs are allowed to
come, and most of us here today are
puppies-that is, we're all pretty
young"
SLOW many of US are here?' asked
Choo Foo. These two dogs were IN III
tie houses adjoining each other.
81 believe" said Yen Wang, THAI
there are two hundred and fifty dogs
here today. And of all those dogs
took the first prize. That's why l an
pleasant"
you mean that is why you are as
pleasant as 1t is possible for you tt
be-" said Choo Foo.
sNaybe So" said Yen Wang, 'fol
I never believe in being too pleasant
It would be beneath my dignity. l an
Z very aristocratic dog, as I said be
FORE"
Eyes, so you said," agreed Chot
Foo, "and II you are so proud at hav
ing received the first prize in this
whole show, do you wonder L an
pleased? For I received the SECOND
prize"
"Yes," said Yen Wang, eff you cam
receive the first prize, it is always
nice to get the second"
"And do you mean," asked Chot
Foo, "that every dog here has fam
lily tree"
"Every one" said Yen Wang
'sThere Is not dog in the place
without fine, noble, highly-bred ances
tors, or Observation-Disclosures, a.
you prefer to call them"
mo wonder, then" said Choo Foo
shat my mistress gives me the choic
est Of foods"
$50 does Nine" said Yen Wang. ..
have my own meals. I bark at the ia
BILE three times again when the famil.
is eating, and 1 am given choice bit
to eat-and every afternoon when tn
mistress has tea, 1 am given cream
rich cream In a beautiful saucer, ant
Q piece Of expensive cake made witt
eggs"
''It's very nice to be rich" yawne'
Choo Foo, in q bored little voice.