Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-24
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRAcEWELL.

| ageable team unless one is a dog man.
! This fellow was. He held that trio as
neatly as If it had been one dog. Not
| a one of three tried anything fancy.
Each walked along as sedately as you
please. Two were shepherds, and the
/ third a large-sized Spitz. Evidently
this mans dogs we're confined all day,
| as perhaps their owner was himself,
| the dogs in yard and the man in an
Office. BY the time he had his supper
and had read the paper it was dark.
Then came the best time of the day.
| evidently. He was to be seen every
evening, taking the same path along
the streets. He and his dogs took up
most of the sidewalk. Pedestrians who
went that way at about the same time
each evening got to looking for the
man with the dogs" The man, in
his turn, came to expect certain faces
along his route. Always his keen
black eyes flashed recognition
Another man took big dog along in
the afternoon. Rain or shine, the pair
appeared at exactly o'clock This dog
was on no leash, but was allowed to rum
privilege he did not abuse as much as
most dogs do.
There are number of lady dog walk
ers, some of them to be encountered
downtown, where they may be seen TAX
ing dogs on and off elevators. 1t must
be terrible thing to be about foot
high and to be crammed into small
room with creatures feet tall crowding
all around one. Dogs, under such cir
cumStances, behave very we'll.
One of these walking dogs off parade
once put on a neat show Several men
on the steps of the building IN front
of which car was parked heard an
automobile horn footing loudly. Looking
around, and seeing nothing but what
appeared to be an empty car, the takers
went back to their talking.
One, more curious than the others,
finally looked again. 81 think all that
footing is coming from that empty car"
he said. Nonsense" said another. IF
anything were wrong with the wiring
1t would blow continuously" "All the
same, that is coming from that car" in
sisted the other. He went over to the
curb. looked into the car, then waved his
hand for the others to come forward.
Doing so, the men saw what the curl
Gus one already had discovered, a very
small Pekinese, pushing the horn but
ton with his right forepaw. which he
was barely able to reach, so that he was
practically invisible from the sidewalk
The fate Of the city dog is a sad one
in many respects; it is saved from utter
gloom only by reason of the irrepressi-
BILE optimism Of the dog, which keeps
him happy under any circumstances,
just so long as he is allowed to share
the life of his master.
What matters 1t to good dog
whether he has his racial heritage or
not-that heritage which consists of the
right to run as far and as long as he
wishes? Deprived of that, dog has
lost one of the two things which 1t loves
the best in the world.
The other, which the dog still pos
sesseS, is the love of his master.
With the Old Man by his side, a dog
is as happy as he would be running
along the countryside by himself Com
plete happiness comes to the dog in a
field with his master along. Short of
that, he prefers to be by the masters
side, even If it involves staying at home
in a stuffy room.
Yet the pull Of the great outdoors is
so great on dogs that every day many of
them stray away in great cities. The
lost and found ads" show new recruits
to the wanderers every night. These
dogs start parade of their own.