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Show He meant wkll. There ia an old gentluman that comes down town un foot every morning who appears to be i great friend to dumb animals. Whenever ho aces a dog scratching at a store door to he let iu ho prompts ly opens it tur tho animal. The other morning lie made a mistake in the dug biiMnei-tf. He let one one in, and soon the same canine came rushing between his legs, nearly throwing him down, and covering the lower part of hia pantaloons with paint. A man wilh overalls on was chasing thedog, trying to get a lino shot at him with a paint-brush he had in his hand. Tho old lentlcman expoatu-aled expoatu-aled with the irate painter, for such he proved to be, aaying: "My good man, why do you wish to hurt that dug?" j "Because he has tipped over my paint and made an infernal mess ol everything. S-jnie blasted old idiot) let him into the store when we were i ill trying lo keep him out while 1 w. i doing Mime pointing; ho jumped through the dour, etuck hia forelegs into lh piiii.t-not, and lipped it over. Hrown paint on a marble llxir looks wcil; don't it I wish people would mind their own business!" Boston Trainer ipt. |