Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1942-04-24

success Speeches were made, ana
drinks were drunk. Chris, slightly
tight and making his modest reply
to a toast, felt secretly exalted
The greatest profession in the
world" he heard himself saying
standing up with glass in his hand.
"Try to bo worthy much to learn
great debt we all owe to the hos
pital
"Hurrar for Chris" they shouted
'Hurrah for the hospital"
At something after midnight he
found himself unaccountably on top
of the club piano, while a dozen or
more young medical men shouted that
he was a jolly good fellow. And at
two o'clock in the morning he was
also unaccountably-alo on a bench
in the cold autumnal park, while a
stray dog of considerable size was sit
ting with it's head on his knee. Both
of them had apparently been taking
brief nap. Chris stretched and
yawned, and then inspected the dog
with interest.
well, Fido, where did you come
from?"
For answer the dog wagged his
tail, and Chris got slowly to his feet.
Cali right son." he said. Better
lay off the wagging and go home
now"
The dog, however, showed no signs
of going home. He too, stretched and
yawned, and barked. In effect he
said that both of them having had a
good rest, it was now time to run and
play. Chris, who was dizzy, eyed him
with envy.
II" Iwish I felt the way you do" he
said, and started home.
At the edge of the park he glanced
down to see the dog still sedately pac-
ing beside him. He stopped and look
ed down.
"You and I'd better have this out,
Fido," he said. "I'm going home and
you're going home, too, wherever that
may be. Home!" he repeated, and
waved hand. ,,
Fido, however, merely wagged his
tail again and looked up at him, de-
lighted at this attention, and finally
Chris bent down and patted the ugly
mongrel head.
80 that it! Got your mind made
up, have your" He looked around
uncertainty. "All right then. Come
along. Well talk it over in the morn
ing"
In the morning, however they had
something different to discuss. Chris,
Justify splashing in the bathtub,
heard Lily hurrying up the back
stairs and her apologize knock at the
door.
Did you bring dog in last night,
Doctor?"
Ibid. Or he brought me-"
"Well, l hate to tell you, but he's
chewed a hole in your new overcoat,
and your hats IN pieces.
He swore violently and scrambled
out of the tub. Once downstairs, how
ever, it was to find an unregenerate
creature who greeted him as a long
lost brother, and he had not the heart
to beat him. But he addressed him
gravely.
IF this partnership is to persist"
he said, "you must learn the law Of
private property. And don't wag at
me. I'm serious"
you're SOFT" Katie jeered, listen
ing to all this with amazement. "Put
him ut. What business is he of
yours 2"
Chris grinned. "Me?" he said.
Look at him! l am his father and his !
mother, my child. l am his whole
family. And hereafter who loves me
loves my dog"
She turned quickly and went away.
He kept the dog, calling him Gaze
sar because he had come, seen, and
conquered; and later that day he lured
him upstairs to the bathroom and
lifted him into the tub. Lily down be-
low in her kitchen heard a prodigious
splashing and a wall or two, and
knew then that Caesar had come to
stay.
II left a flea or two on him to give
him something to do" Chris told her.
But it did not greatly concern her.
Nothing had mattered much to her
since Dick had gone away.
Thus Caesar became fixture in
the house. He slept upstairs in
Chris's room, on the old dressing
gown folded in a corner, and often