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Show POODLE LIES IN STATE SIX DAYS NEW YORK, April 22. Papdy, a black poodle, lav in state six days in the homo of his mistress, Mrs. (.'. '. (ardncr, in 13 Jardine place, East New York. Dandy has gone to a Greenpoint taxidermist to be brought back later a nearly lifelike as stuffing can make any dead dot,'. For eleven years Dandy and his mis- j tress had been house maioa and com- ; pan ions. When he died she grieved so that she had a couth made for him in j the front room. There he was combed and groomed and a big spread of black silk, on which had been worked in gold ! letters. "Here lies Dandy," draped I over him. ! Mrs. Gardner, who is a widow an 1 j lives alone, said that for the first few days of her loss she could neither eat j nor sleep. Even, now she cannot speak : of it without tears. Most of her time she spent beside the couch where her pet lay asleep. The children of the ' neighborhood and Jardine place j swarms with them, and they all knew 1 Dandy came in to offer their condol- 1 ences and sympathy, quite as they i would do for any other friend. Then one . by one they would be solemnly ushered into the chamber of death to view the j bodv. 1 "At last I rco'i-.ed thn I wouldn't keep him forever,' said Mrs. Gardner, "bat it won't be long now before I have bim back again." |