Show the ed tors dog for several years henry lee been the calumet record and want ing a dog henry Is still publishing the calumet ord yes it Is true I 1 did want a dog the edi tor dipping his jaste brush into the ink well ab edly that was a week ago now I 1 not only dont want a car ni vorous mammal but I 1 thank my stars I 1 got rid ot the one I 1 had without paying continuous a 11 mony it was like this explained lee everybody knew I 1 wanted a dog I 1 have three children and every child ought to own a dog or a stipulated interest in a dog and so I 1 told my friends J pined for a bow w nobody seemed to pay much attention to my wants until doctor white tele phoned to come over to Us house say said doc via the telephone come over to my house and get your dog Is it a good dog I 1 questioned warily well X guess yes replied the doc its a great grandfather er I 1 mean a great grandson of his highness dog of yew that won the world s fair fly from chicago to san no I 1 don t mean the world s fair fly I 1 mean the world well anyhow you come over and get your dog so I 1 went over continued henry with my heart going pit a pat and with visions of full blood boston ter biers and Blen heims chasing their talla through my imagination when I 1 got over there doc led me around to the back stoop and there was the arneri est looking great dane I 1 ever saw eating out of a tub and evilly watch ing us with the white of his eye lord doc said I 1 I 1 don t need a cow in the faill why I 1 teed a dog like that what I 1 want Is a nice quiet small dog tor the kida to play with say lee said the pill man you don t know a good dog when you sea one and besides he Is awfully fond of children he was too lighting the editorial pipe he almost ate my youngest the first time he got loose well I 1 took the darned dog home that night and tied him to the center pole of the basement my wife and the kids had gone to bed and I 1 was counting sheep hard when all at once I 1 heard an awful racket in the bowels of my home and the house began to rock just as my wife sat upright in bed I 1 bolted through the door and down two flights of stairs into the basement there was no light in the basement and the first thing I 1 did was to fall over the dog and bump tny head against the wash boiler the dog bolted for upstairs and I 1 caught him by the tall just as he was going through the dining room door in the wrestling match that followed the dog stepped on my pet corn with a foot as big as a ham tore my nightshirt from alpha to omega and made a wreck 0 me in general finally I 1 got the dog back down stairs and shut him up in the coal bin aside from eating two bushels of coal he did no further damage that night next morning bright and early J got the kids up to see their new dog my children are of the stair step age the youngest Is a toddler the second one step above and the third still one more step they lined up expectantly awaiting the coming 0 roger and I 1 when the dog saw the children he made a dash for them he struck the youngest like a cata pault the baby fell against his sister and his sister fell against the eldest and like a line of ten pins they went down in a heap the dog on top after I 1 got the kids and the dog separated I 1 shut my offspring in the house and put the dog in the cellar again then I 1 telephoned for red nosed pete to come up to my house pete I 1 said I 1 want to give you all these second hand clothes and shoes and a full blood dog thoroughly housebroken and kind pete thanked me tor the clothes but insisted on me paying him 2 to take the dog finally I 1 handed him the money and told him to depart in peace from now on my kids play with Tedd Bears and I 1 salute my own smiling guests somebody may hand me a lemon sometime but bet there a man on earth that can give me another dog |