Show THE Sf AVERY OF BOB A True Story Bob was the gentlest and sweetest I lempored of clogs He was a beautiful Irish wetter but fo timid and quiet was lie that we had no doubt that he had been very badly treated In the kennel which was his home before we owned him Any other dog no matter how small was permitted to confiscate his bones without remonstrance and as meek as Bob grew to be quite a common com-mon expression in the family when wo meant to describe any particularly timId or retiring person It never occurred oc-curred to us that J3ob in spite of his mildness possessed a temper of his own and so wc were all the more surprised sur-prised hon it finally came to light It happened that a white cut of ours one of Bobs dearest friends for ho adored all cats became the proud mother of five kittens and the good dog was just as fond of and l took just as great an interest in them as did their own mother He noticed how their mother washed them and sometimes when he seemed to think that the cleaning had not been sufficiently thorough he would repeat the operation with his big red tongue appearing to enjoy it very much indeed though as much cannot be said of Lime kittens While these kittens were still In earliest Infancy we were warned that the dog of a neighbor a fox terrier named Sport who we knew was death to cats had been seen hanging around the place Of course after this we took palna to keep the door of the room where our nets were domiciled securely closed but one day though how it happened we never knew the door was left open and Sport seeing his chance was upstairs and Inside in no time The famllv was assembled on the piazza and the first notice they had of the invasion was a tremendous snarl ing1 and growling followed by a series of sharp yelps which came from the direction of the cats room Kautzer the mother was with us taking a nap In the sun having left her babies as I she supposed safe and she instantly sprang up and rushed toward the scene of the disturbance followed by all the rest of us But there was no need for us to make I such haste Sport had reckoned without with-out his host and a better guardian than any oX us had been on the alert Bob had evidently wandered into the room for a neon at the dear kittens and it was luckY for them that he had done so As we drew near the yclmi grew louder and Bob carrying Sport by the back which he had seized firmly in his teeth marched out of the room and to the top of the back stairs Here he paused to give a few farewell shakes to his captive and then with a good swing threw him down the whole filght Sport lay jsltll fiim a few min U Los and thn howling dismally arose antI slunk away nor would he ever enter our gales again though he often stood outside the road and growled at the house FLORENQE A EVANS |