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Show He was Hogging the Docj. Cumm' -js Martin of Rochester, Vt., had a ssrlous impediment In his speech, and had much difficulty In getting get-ting his vocal organs into a condition to say anything without flrst going through such facial contortions as to cause amusement among the lookers-on. lookers-on. When a boy he had a dog that ho prized highly, and which, like Cum-mlngs, Cum-mlngs, was always ready for fun. This dog was his Inseparable companion com-panion about the farm. Capt. Eb Martin, tho father of Cum-mlngs, Cum-mlngs, was a thrifty farmer, who felt a laudable pride in his flno horse3, cattlo and hogs and other products of his farm. One day he discovered Cummlngs, the dog nnd n flno porker in suspicious juxtaposition, amid furious furi-ous yolllngs, barkings and squeallngs, and the father roared out: "Cummlngs! "Cum-mlngs! Cummlngs! Stop dogging that hog!" And Cummlngs yelled back: "I a-a-ala't d-d-dog-doggin' t-th-the h-ho-hog. I'm h-ho-hog-hoggln t-th-tho d-do-dog." |