The New York herald., 1922-07-11
baby Girl And Dog
INVESTIGATE WORLD
AH-Day-Sucker Her Pro
visions for Half Mile
Brooklyn Tour.
THEY HEAR. ODD WORDS
Man Doing and Saying
Something to Motor Car
Interests Them.
POODLE THE BoDYGUARD
Tessie Bravely Chews Police
mans Finger, but He Does
Not Cry a Bit.

Since Frances Lahey is only 2 years
old. it probably will be year or two
before she has acquired a vocabulary
sufficient to tell her folks where. she
intended going yesterday when she
ran away from her home in 511 Fifty
third street, Brooklyn.
But she apparently had quite a
journey In mind. because she took an
all day sucker with which she had
been struggling valiantly all morning,
Of nourishment. and her pet poodle
Tessie, squat little beast that thinks
herself fierce, and a natural protector
Of little girls
Tessie. however. was almost cured
Of this belief when she chewed a po-
liceman's finger for fifteen minutes and
failed to infiict any damage. After
surveying the result Of her labors she
retired under a chair and gave vent
to throaty and disgusted mutterings.
The plain truth Of the matter is that
both Frances and Tessie are too fat to
make any journeys Of consequence, and
that Is why at. o'clock yesterday after
noon they had gone only half a mile
from home. although they started at
IL. in the morning.
Their legs are chubby and sturdy. but
practically useless for iocomotion, and
their attention is apt to be distracted by
too many events. For instance. man
whose job 1t was to dig hole in the
pavement identified them as the little
girl and. the little dog who had formed
an interested audience for more than an
hour, the baby sitting solemnly on the
edge of the sidewalk making loud
business out Of eating an !aH-day-sucker.
and the dog parading around her.
What seemed to them vast distances
were covered by Frances and Tessie dur
ing the course of the afternoon, but at 3
o'clock. they came upon the most fas-
cinating attraction yet. This was a
man lying on his back tinkering with
the insides of an automobile. This in
itself was enough to provide amusement
and instructions but Frances and Tessie
felt the mans language was even bet
ter They did not know what he said
and they had never heard words like
them before, but they had tang and
richness to them that was undeniably
fascinating. Therefore they settled them
selves to watch, after Tessie had barked
and growled at the man and had had no
attention whatever paid to her.
Patrolman Charles Corbett of the
Fourth avenue station came along at
o'clock and found them. Frances was
sitting on the curbing. sucking vigor-
ously at her all day sucker. which had
just about expired. and Tessie was chas-
ing herself around and about. The dog
barked. but Corbett poked the dog in his
pocket. set the little girl on his shoulder
and took the travellers to the Fourth ave-
nue. station. There Detective Joseph Nc
Cam sent out for additional nourish-
ment in the form Of lollypop for
Frances and bone for Tessie. and both
visited until 6 o'clock, when Mrs. Lahey
came for them.
1t was when Detective McCann at
tempted to pat the little girls cheek that
Tessie leaped to her rescue and grabbed
his finger Nothing but mutterings was
heard from her after that