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Show all lales As told to: ELMO FRANK E. and SCOTT HAGAN J WATSON The Faithful Crutches MOST people know about the loyalty loy-alty of dogs and other dumb animals that serve mankind, but they do not realize that inanimate things are frequently just as faithful. faith-ful. So says Herbert Sharpies of Montreal, Que., who tells this story of the faithful crutches. One day be saw a traveling doctor in the market place offering for sale a marvelous salve which, he claimed, would cure nil ills. One of the first purchasers was a man whose legs were so shriveled and twisted that he had to use crutches to get along. One minute and eight seconds after he had rubbed some of the salve on his legs they were so straight and strong that he cast away his crutches and started to walk home without them. The doctor, having no use for the salve left In the box by the man, and noticing that the crutches were very dingy from long use, began rubbing some of the ointment on them to see if it would brighten them up. At once the crutches began be-gan to dance and caper around him, stopping now and then to admire ad-mire each other. Suddenly they paused in their antics an-tics and the next moment they were trotting gaily down the street until they caught up with their former for-mer master. After that they walked sedately at his heels, ready to come to his assistance if need be, even though he had cast them oft without with-out a single thought. Western Newspaper Union. |