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Show DOG ALTOGETHER TOO SMAHT Freeman's Good Reasons for Refusing to Tialn Another, Freeman will never train another das In the wuy his wife thinks he ousjht to go. When Freeman bought I'opperpot ho was a llkely-looklng and appearing alredale, with a heart for any kind of a "scrap" and a bark for ovory sound he heard or imagined. Then iliss Freeman thought it would be lovely to tonch him to carry things, like tho Atwoods" Prince, who was so clever at it. "And Pilnny Is only a cocker!" finished fin-ished Mrs. Freeman, by way of emphasizing empha-sizing the superiority of their dog. So Freeman began. And Popperpot responded Immediately to training, nut it had come to him too late for him to take it lightly; In a week he was carrying everything he could grip with his determined teeth. The rest Is Freeman's story, as he told It on the train the morning after their summer cottage had been looted of all its cooked food. "Something waked mo," Freeman said, -"and I got up and crept down to tho kitchen Just In time to see three hoboes going out of the back door." "What about your dog your swapper?" swap-per?" his seatmate asked, with surprise sur-prise in his voice. "He .was there all right," answered Freeman. "Ho was trotting ahead, carrying car-rying the hoboeo' lantern In his mouth and looking round and wagging his tall now and then. "You can teach an alredale anything,'' any-thing,'' ho continued, complacently. "All you've got to do Is to glvo him a start." Youth's Companion. |