Show The Sandman Story FOR TONIGHT RAGS Rags Hags was fat rat ugly just a A. common yellow cur lie would woul never nover have I I taken talen a prize In a dog show and no noI I lone j one would e ever er r accuse him of being handsome But nut Rags Hags was a n good g I friend Ho lIo ha had b become come the property I of or Hab Baby when was j I 6 months old and now that the bab baby I Iwas was ryas 2 Rags nags was as devoted ll aa as over ever I i But Rags naSs was a common dog dog- and i I Too les' les mother was vcr very stylish She Sho I I hurl had a big house u a butler a a. maid a at l footman and H a large Jaro red d touring car Ir i so she was wast ashamed t hamel of Rags especially es- es esI i his habit of ot chasing alloy alluy cats and playing with the street dogs doSs i passing by t tSo So she said that Rags roust must t ROI goI go RO I know ho Is a kind Jog dog she remarked re remarked remarked re- re marked to tho the French nurse who took out each day In a fine hab haby I carriage But nut 1 hate to lu see tieu C thu the child j accompanied by such a an- an ma mal Give him to the trash man 1 when he ho comes tomorrow I Rags Hass must have un understood for tor ho he cocked up UI his ears and looked ett sa sadly ly at tho the la lady Then he lie shook hook his head as If to prepare for tor the worst in life Ute Early in tho the afternoon and his nurse went walking walking- in the zoo The place was gay ay with people a band played on a big stand the flags s were flying children n raced over the green gleen cars cIrs were banked up alon along alone the road read and antI everywhere c there was noise shouts music and eating eating- and the tho nurse sat under a tree to rest The baby went to slee sleep in his liis carriage and thinking it perfectly perfectly per per- per per- safe to leave leavo the child chih the nurse went off for tor a n moment to buy peanuts Then tire the bab baby woke up and be began an to 10 fret Cret He lie shouted and wiggled and his jumping about made the carriage in ht which he sat t start down the hill Rags Rag who Ia lay asleep under it it started down as soon as he saw the bab baby In trouble For he seemed to understand at once the danger dancer The nur nuro o was Inthe in inthe inthe the distance coming coining but buthen when hen she saw sa the baby In the carriage which was bumping along down own the hil hm right in the driveway she gave gan a scream and promptly fainted On rolled the carriage and Too lc laughed with delight delight he lie thought it II great reat fun tun It neared a bend In the tho road Then there arose arose- from front the time mass of ot people beyond a shout hout for a horse attached to a 11 wa wagon on was running running- madly awa away f fand and right ht In its path was coming comins flying down the hill The horse horge reared and plunged Ills III a wagon oll shook from sl side sido o to side of or the road A park policeman on horseback canic dashing from the gate but it Would be too late Little Rags was on his Job The I baby carriage earring struck a n rock in the road and was thrown out I almost under tho the pI plunging un sinS sinS' horses horse feet reet But hardly had the baby struck j the ground when Rags nag was leaping forward and landed right rIg on tho the thoi i i childs child's s bo body y Tho The horse was almost I upon them but Rags HaSs jumped into theair tho the air barking madly and snapping at atthe atthe the mouth of oC the horse The Tho animal much frightened swept aside leaving tho the baby safe sate in the road then it darted across tho the grass and leaped into the water But waa saved Five Fhe minutes later Inter a big crowd le led b by the policeman and the nurse escorted home But the hero of ot tho the day was dear old Rags No indeed he shall never le leave vo sobbed the tho mother as she sho hu hugged g-ed g both hoth bab baby and do dog in her arms As long IonS as ho he lives ho he shall remain in In Ill my tam fatally family II And some say Rags gave Save a bark of delight Copyright ht 1910 1919 by Ly tho the McClure Newspaper News News- paper S Syndicate te New ew York City |