| Show Iour 11ft 6ai rv i + 1 J j i t I 1 2 I e S Tt 1 I H John L Beckett also owns two Newfoundland New-foundland but we will digress for a moment Mr Beckett is traveling freight agent for the KIo Grande Western West-ern and meets nil kinds of persons even mcmbcru of the Legislature He has to do this In his business Mr attained at-tained his present position through being be-ing qualified for it He hnd a large Lime with a large furniture dealer In a large city once Mr Beckett called to get a shipment of furniture The pro prlclor of the store who wag a rude coarse man and chewed navy plug saw the blushing bashful youth enter the store and asked him watenell lie wanted want-ed Mr Bnckett said oh nothing only the proprietor The proprietor seemed to lake umbrage which means offense at this and asked him Avatenell was wanted With the proprietor This told Mr 1 Beckett who can read human ra ture and simple English composition that his inteilocutor was the proprietor 1 am going to get married glibly sang Mr Beckctl and I want to buy three or four thousand dollars Avorth of furniture furni-ture This announcement almost killed l the large man who willed Taking advantage ad-vantage of tho mans weakness Mr Becketr seized him and secured shipment ship-ment which netted eighteen million dollars I dol-lars out of the man This is only one incident and Is also the only time Mr Becketts remarks ever varied from strict veracity because he was at that time married anr il did not want to get married any more at all Returning to the dog question Mr Beckett as has been stated owns two Be had one before he got the other and If he had had the one continuously he would never have had the other There by i hangs the tale The dog of the first part was a perfect dear of a Newfound land and Mr BeckettJust adored It It got lost apparently one day and rea lizing that life would be all an empty dream without a XcAVfoundland Mr Beckett went out to buy another The dealer knew Mr Beckett simply had to hnve a dog and charged him the price of a farm in Georgia for a certain New foundland This is the second dog men tioned heretofore When Mr Beckett got hobie with his IJCAV dog he found the old one sitting on the porch laugh ing at him Despite the cruel joke the old dog had perpetrated Mr Beckett found on Introspection that he loved the old dog the better and he keeps the new one solely because Mr Beckett has to have something to kick when he gets mad Mr Beckett interested In the Chi nese question |
