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Show JUST A LITTLE TOO HASTY Chances Are Colonel Newton Will Investigate In-vestigate Hereafter Before He Makes a Complaint. "Have you noticed that dead dog in Harris' back yard?" inquired Colonel Newton at the breakfast table. "No, I haven't; I didn't know they had a dog," his wife returned. "No more did I, but there's a dead dog lying in their back yard, and it's been there for a day or two. If it isn't disposed of by tomorrow I shall notify the health department." As the dog was still there, stretched stiff and stark, upon his return at night, the colonel telephoned the health department to come in the mprniDg and remove the body of a dead dog in his neighbor's back yard, which was becoming offensive. The men came early, before the colonel col-onel had left home, to attend to the matter. He saw them pick up the animal, ani-mal, drop it suddenly and turn away The colonel, mystified,' hurried out ta see about it. "Why didn't you take that dog away?" he sputtered. The officer eyed him coldly. "Aw, come off," he said, in a tone of disgust, dis-gust, "that's a stone dog; piece oi bricky-brac; put out there for the ash man." |