Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1926-09-22

out, l did see Benito. His dark
brown eyes expressed for him the
( words his tongue could not, as he
beamed at me, and said again
| boy poppy"
| He wanted to buy MacGregor, and
carried him off in trump, but the
| remaining lonely little brother we
called the boy Poppy" after that.
| And the boy Poppy" found home
| with a clerical gentleman who lives
many miles away. On the day Of de-
| parture, equipped with collar and
leash, which almost broke his heart,
| the poor little fellow waited an hour
and a half in the Ellsworth station
| to be checked 1t was busy day
| for the trainmen, and 1t was not
till fifteen minutes before train
time that boy Poppy's" turn came.
All that while he had been sitting
on an appended trunk, safety tied,
his head mournfully on one side, and
the left ear dropped in disconsolate
fashion. Somehow, he assumed a
grandfatherly expression, but 1t was
an unhappy grandfather.
But" said the baggage-master,
as he looked at the three-months-
old boy Poppy" This beast must
be muzzled! He cannot be checked
without muzZle!'
Fifteen minutes left! Down the
street to Wescott's dashed his mas
ter, they waited on him like light
ming. The return was quick, the
checking was quick, and Boy
Poppy" properly muzzled, was
pitched into the baggage car of the
moving New York train, just as 1t
pulled out of Ellsworth on August
27.
Now 1 quote from letter: "Out
at Bridgeport, Conn, on time, with
fifteen minutes between trains.
why is it always fifteen minutes?
OF to the baggage car to get the
boy Poppy" but no baggage car,
and no boy Poppy" The Bar Har-
Dor train had stopped only to let on
passengers, and the poor Boy
Poppy" had been put off all alone
away back at New Haven!
Fortunately, a local train was fol-
lowing on from New Haven, and 1t
arrived in seven minutes. But new
trouble came with Boy Poppy" The
muzzle was gone! No checking
without a muzzle. The baggage
man said to ask the conductor Tor
permission to ride in the baggage
car and hold the beast.
The conductor refused to allow
this, saying that since the beast had
arrived checked, he ought to be re-
checked. Back to the baggage-man
with this message, and he, being a
man of resource, tied a rope around
boy Poppy's" face, called that
muzle, and checked him. The
precious minutes had been flying all
this while. All aboard, boy Pop
py!"
The conductor gave the engineer
the signal to pull out, and the long
train started, five minutes late, all
Lamoine.
1t may be remarked that the
people in the station and on the
train at Bridgeport, seemed to de-
rive much more amusement from
watching a clerical gentleman dash
ing widely back and forth with
long-legged collie pup in his arms,
than did the clerical gentleman him
self in action.
The moral-probably is, if you
travel with dog, READ the ulrec-
tions first, and then tell him not to
lose his muzzle!
A sure way to run" the thread
when opening salt bag or sugar
bag, is to hold it with the back OF
the bag toward you, and begin on
the righthand end. Snip, if neces-
sary, to get hold Of the thread and
then it will pull through. 1t has
never failed me yet!
Fanny's Chocolate Cake-Cream
together one cup sugar, one egg
yolk, shortening size Of an egg.
Add one-half cup cocoa moistened
with sufficient boiling water to make
thin paste. Fill the cup with milk.
One teaspoon soda, one and one-half
cups -four, vanilla, salt. Bake slowly
and frost with beaten white of egg