Show THE RETIRED BURGLAR most unexpected recovery of a iong lost aos speaking of watchdogs watch dogs said retired burglar 1 I never owned a watchdog watch dop but I 1 did own a jolly little mongrel dog that wo called sometimes nibs but mostly dibsy a lively sensitive little fellow but no watchdog yon might have played a brass band outside and hod never hear it but let anybody that he knew walk across the floor and hod wag his tail in his sleep well after wed had dibsy a number of years we lost him he just disappeared one day and come back and we know whether hed been run over by a train of cars or strayed away and got lost or whether somebody had picked him up and carried him off or what was the matter but he come back and we missed him very much because we all liked dibsy now maybo yon can guess what happened one morning early about 2 or half past 2 some months after that as I 1 was moving slowly in the dark across a room on the second floor of b house that I 1 had called at some 60 miles from where I 1 lived I 1 felt the legs of a small dog thrown against mine I 1 see tho dog at all but it was standing on its hind legs and resting it fore legs against me and I 1 could tell by the movement of them that he was wagging his tail violently it was dibsy of course hed known my tread soft ns it was and woke up to receive me well yon know glad as I 1 was tc find dibsy id rather not have found him right there because he was almost certain to make trouble for me he began to whine with joy the first thing and then he gave a little yelp that was just what I 1 was afraid of he want to make any trouble for me but that one yelp was enough A man in the bed sits up and pulls a string and turns on a light and says now the matter and I 1 puts up a great polar bluff and says you swiped my dog and ive come to get him swiped nothing ho says til you in a minute and he alow in getting at it either ho was getting out of bed and coming for me all the time he was talking and a good healthy powerful looking man he waa too bat dibsy was bright dibsy made just one dive at the mans feet but that was enough 10 stop him until id got turned and started and a minute later I 1 was going down the road with dibsy coming oa behind new icik sun |