Show DOG OF THE IRON MASK although only an aristocratic statue it deceived the street A relative who lives in one of the onetime fashionable mansions now become students boarding houses in the south end tells me a pretty good story of a dog says a reporter for the boston post in the yard where a fountain was once known to play but where now dust gathers is an iron statue of a dog the iron dog and guards the old fountain but he indis turn has an admirer and adorer the other day hunting for another dog play tag with him came a young street mongrel he was unaccustomed to the ways of aristocracy and in his simple ignorance supposed that anything that looked like a dog was adoc up to the statue he bounded barking and wagging his tai in stately immobility alie iron dog gazed on out into vacancy tills did not deceive the other he biad seen plenty of dogs assume just that haughty and abstracted manner when they did not care to fight wishing to show his iron friend that he appreciated his attitude but assuring him 0 no evil intention the dog from the street kept on b arking and wagging his tail lie even ran around liis friend a number of times to show that there was no ill will sis is the manner of dogs but the dog of the iron mask did not budge my relative that he is sure that even if the street flog had brought around a cat to chaee the iron dog would have remained unmoved X red irish setter came out finally and called the street dog away alie latter went with distinct traces of reluctance in his manner lie liked tho style of that iron dag and had rather play in his yard him |