| Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING JUNE 14 C II 1936 a dog like this then Sam kind of gentleness "Why not? I don’t mind Listen you mean this dog here? sound but apparently found noth- going” hs laid "Ktsp an sys bn tht pup It hs’s worth BO Iren men ing familiar in th name dogs— not very much But he hasta This dog of mine ?” eyes and everything” s “I dunno” the big man said honThe big man said: “Now watch he’s valuable stuff” and sleep on the floor!” He lifted his eyebrows It says Jeff! Jeff! Com here!” Th little man shrugged watch Th little man said to th barman: estly “I just thought shrugged his shoulders with a gesture of resignation or’ finality "Oh “You got a bone or something? A here Lost Wednesday in Plaza The brown dog hounded over to lng the brown dog which was mak-in- g well” he said park Jeff an Irish spaniel Small the big man and ran in absurd few icraps?" L knowing false starts for the LAKE CITY SALT DALE By dark brown white belly Answers circles about him tall switching door The big man finished his beer in “You better pick him up ”1 guess so” said the barman silence The barman moved down “Wait a minute” He walked into a to name Fifty dollars reward' Say with fast and irregular emphasis then” he said lifelessly "Yon don’t A Tribune Short Story T" do think askyou to where the sullen youth was Without smiling the big man want to let him get away” back room to reappear with some the antics of the dog When The big man said carelessly fHa’U By DALE L MORGAN any place to take him anyways” door The door creaked to behind ing for another beer The bare scrape of fried meat "He can have The little man stared at the papvr watched room for a moment was very quiet these He's not a bad looking almost stupidly Then hs said in he looked1 up 'there 'was no triumph not run away Corns on Georgs I know” the little man said ir- them and the dog came to an abrupt The dog Salt Laka City little man drew in a deep at that” hs said critically a rush: “No this ain't him I tell in his face “What do you think —listen you don’t care? Thera are y anow the puzxled-lin halt said sniffing A TRIBUNE SHORT STORY anything ritably “Nobody you this ain't him! Listen this Is George?" he asked “la this th lots more dogs Ybtf won't at the bare wet wood Suddenly breath The big man picked up a newsabout wanting this mutt did they? my dog I found him! Look how dog?” The dog got to its feet and mind if this turns out to be the It had begun to snow Flake of When The under hit breath he barked on the while bar th I need your advice Til ask enow fell unhurried aoft and wet walked around restlessly Presently paper lying eat he sits up when I snap my fingers” The little man stared expression- one?” now fell out of the night aky soft- for eat up to th offered scraps it” “How do you know this ain’t the lessly at the floor At last he said came back to the men at the bar dog it “Come on let’s be going” the The he himself and then oh want ads” ghook some “Here's dog ly unhurriedly large wet flakes "You need my advice all the time” man the asked big flatly sullenly "I don’t know He might little man said colorlessly' "We lifted hia voice in a half whine half to look up with bright curiosity to put dog?" "I'm served goln' genially "The the man said “Because— Well I ain’t fell know on the which melted as they unruffledly this big be” Ha rubbed the to of on heavy might ay well find out” He moved light stained the “Look” said th little man in a you to work and see if I can't get re- shoe in a circle on the floor sidewalks and upon the coats and trouble is you never have the sense bark The red toward the door walk Ths brown dog remote voice “Look This pup is some money out of your lazy hide" the one” the little man said it”-Thto know hats of the two men The business Th big man took otr ms hat and Hts friend came after him and the exact image of the one I had He ruffled the pages ostentatiously sentfully louder whined again the man scratched little dog’s section of the town was dim before “You don’t know” th big man stroked the wet crown of it thought- took him by the arm “Wait ft minThe door swung out pnd ths llttls Notice the odd flop of the ears “You wouldn't believe how laay this them a dull wedge of color thrust wet ears “Looks like a pretty good man’s You know that last Christmas “How do you know this fully “Well If this Is the dog it’d ute Georg I didn’t think la argued The facs to barman th confided Is” inquiring he appeared guy between the dark earth and the pup” he said critically "Irish span- brown and his I was home th dog followed my "Sometimes I don’t believe It my- ain’t th one? Look I'll call him be worth our while to take him back that right? Does this dog really barked joyously dog house little kid all around th night sky spangled with the red iel” by that name and see how he an- Fifty bucks Is something you don’t mean anything to you? Hell If I self I wouldn’t fool you” "Oh Lord grant me forbearance” tall wagged furiously As the door Wouldn’t let him out of his and green and yellow of tne Christsneeze at” sight thought he remained of flow Th open alipped hastily speech stopped swer” “I the big man said resignedly mas lights I remember we had a roast chicken as h easy “Wait a minute” the little man He said with sudden decision: folded the paper and They Start Out suddenly Ths men walked with the slow knew it It’s like this every time through The little man turned to follow for dinner and Jimmy fed the pup looked hard at an advertisement interposed sharply “He might an- “Let’s give it a try I bet this is man wrenched free and The little even stride common to those who I tell you one thing if you get him with hia the movements of under the table I remember like “Well I’ll be damned" he said swer any name First you call him the dog” He picked up the paper pushed through th door Outside have come from no definite place into a room with us he ain't gonna the brown eyes which ran question-ingi- y it was yesterday— on a the address some and name see?" other to the scrap He held the dog copied snow was falling in great wet and who have no Immediate desire sleep In bed with me an’ you If Listen Lee I'm- going to keep loudly and read it paper up “Look by"Sure” the big man said “What'll of paper Thia done he fished out the under the cavant table flake and the red of th sign overagain light to give purpose and direction to you drag this mutt along with us covered the floor of the nearerwhich to I’m him” this pup on going he tossed the keep which some coins aide head mad th whole night world George you think this is the same I call him? Mike? That okay?” their steps Neither felt like speak- he hasta sleep on the floor Damned of the room The looked up with defiant eyes He called sharply: “Mike! Here bar doffed his hat in th direction unreal Somewhere off across town dog came back He dog?" ing One the larger man walked if 111 sleep with any more of these to run around the little man its The Dog Is Fed of th staring barman and plucked a church bell chimed The big man The little man's' head jerked up Mike!” with a kind of solid emphasis each flea farm!” tail Conttmitd oa Following Fact) The dog looked up at the abrupt at ths arm of his friend “Let’s bs absurdly and the man The big man said with unexpected “What dog? Th same as what? foot striking the ground hard his "I wonder what his name is” the liftedwagging his eyes from ths floor to The said man little thoughtfully on blurred the held eyes stiffly look about ths room lights ahead The other slighter brown dog whined with ecstasy as The place was almost empty with rubbed man’s the fingers movements questing nimble his more in and no one in the room the barlooked up at the dark wet sky en- back of his ears The little man man and a sullen-face- d except drinkyouth down looked at and joying the cold liquid feel of the straightened at one end of the bar A the dog with a kind of strange ap- ing beer now melting on his face large mirror behind the bar had The snow began to fall faster praisal said im- scrawled upon it in frosty white the drifting with wide insistence from "Let’s go” the big man “Merry Christmas” the night sky A pattern of white patiently “If you ask me stand- inscription: Prominent upon the bar itself was came out on the sidewalks at first ing around in a snowstorm looking a foot-hig- h Christmas trse a frauncertain and then more sure The at a stray mutt is a hell of a way gile thing of wire and silver paint now became a curtain which im- to spend our time” For the rest the room was the usuMake a Decision perceptibly obscured the night-gloal thing with beer and tobacco adof the city thickening the air so The little man looked up anger vertisements plastering the walls that the darkness took on a strange breaking in his eyes But question-ingl- y along with half a dozen calendars and cloudy whiteness In a moment his gaze returned to the dog The barman and the men were isolated except from again and suddenly he came to with grayed white shirt open at the themselves they walked in a nar- decision throat rattled a glass on the bar row white world which opened be"Well get moving” he said "Pick and said tiredly: “You can't bring fore them as it closed behind in here We don't want no up your boats and start moving if There was no sound except that you’re in such a sweat” Without your dog in here” from the footsteps of the men and a glance at the dog he shook some dogs “Nah nah” the big mah said from their breathing the distant of the snow from his coat and be ponderously approaching the bar roar of street cars and automobiles gan to walk “Don’t you believe it You don’t did not penetrate to this secluded The big man was only a second wanta get my pal's Irish up He's a street A woman went by at a half behind “Now you're beginning to terror when he gits stirred up” He 'run her face turned from the snow show something like sense” he said clucked his in awed reher hair and the fur of her coat approvingly “I've never been able membrance “I tongue wouldn’t fool you” powdered with white but the stac- to out what kind of a squir“Ah let the dog stay In” the little cato of her heels receded quickly rel figger runs around in your cage These man "He won’t hurt After a time the big man reached mutts all play you for a sucker" nothin’protested I’ll watch him — Don’t pay Into a pocket and withdrew a packThey walked off into the white any attention to that big age of cigarets “Have one George?" darkness The dog sat puzzled in brain He talks too much withgnat' his he asked in a strong voice lifting the yellow glimmer from the light mouth” his head in a sudden movement overhead He made a little sound “It just goes to show you" the which showered melted snow from of grief in hid throat and bounded big man observed in an aggrieved his hat brim ' after the men to trot first at their tone “He never appreciates nobody Faces Revealed heels and then a little before them Alius belittlin’ his betters Look go Seeing him the big man groaned throw him and his lousy mutt out The little man abstracted a cylinder of white and held it loosely in “He’s here I knew it It must be in the snow I won’t lift a finger" his mouth A match in the big man’s your fascinating personality It can't "I guess the dog can stay” the barman said Indifferently He looked hand flared to teveal the faces of be your beauty" The little man watched the dim up inquiringly The men nodded He both Each was dark and unshaven hut their eyes were different Those bulk of the dog with fixed eyes spun a couple of heavy glass mugs of the big man were placid and Slowly he raised one hand and wiped on ths bar and filled them with blue those of his companion were the melted snow from his wet face foaming beer "Look” he said hesitantly “I had The dog sat down contentedly dark with an almost burning ina at the feet of the little man lookdog like that once" tensity You had 20 like that I bet” the ing up at the man's face with They drew the smoke into their other said jocosely dreaming eyes His tall beat out an lungs and blew it out The little man did not smile After audible tattoo against Ah floor The cold of the air seized upon the mist of smoke and Intensified a time he said "No but I mean it ‘Christmas Eve’ its whiteness The smoke stung Once I had a dog like that” The little man raised his mug and the voice was and His serious big drank His lifted their nostrils with a pleasant brief eyes held to the acridness as the men walked into than did not understand therefore Slowly he put walked In silence watching the legend on the mirror the wan circle of yellow radiance he down The dog rapped his cast by one of the arcllghts which confident trot of the' dog before tail the rtiugagainst the floor again and the The little man volunteered k were set at intervals them man looked down at him with a and the three further nothing street the along slow inclination of his head It was the big man who saw the walked through the falling ynow very “Where’s everybody?” asked the to no some for sound while with dog sitting in the snow at the bus man wiping his' mouth with a of the street lamp “A mutt” he said break the silence except the soft big careless twist of his wrist "This of sound their shuffle the of feet indifferently a cemetery or somethin'?” The dog wagged the stump of his their breath the occasional half place "Nobody’s out tonight” the bartail in greeting surveying the men whines of the brown dog man said “It's Christwith bright wary eyes He was They reached a section of the mas eve grudgingly Business ain't worth a small and in color with street which was somewhat more damn” n brightly lit A cold flat sheen of “Christmas!” the large floppy ears and big man said in eyes His fur was bedraggled and emptiness was the plate glass win tones of wonder "Damned dawning A farof closed store dow little a the white of his belly had dirty and the little if it ain’t!” He become gray The snow was visible ther on a lurid sign in the red of man “You sefen nudged Santa Claus flying In the brown furrows of his thick neon brightened the falling snow anywhere tonight?” coat where It had gathered more with strange and almost sinister around The light fell on the dog on The little man did not lift his swiftly than the heat of his body colorsnow the and the brown ridges of moody gaze The big man turned could melt it back to the bar “Santa Clau cornin’ The little man stopped to look the fur beneath on his hot red to your house?” he asked genially on fell faces of the the tongue It the The at red Intently dog waxing "You got any kids? You married?" men and revealed their his of glistening made a brief glow clgaret “No” the barman said taciturnly red reflection on his face as he foreheads below their shapeless He looked up with more interest hats the black stubble of their leaned over ‘What in hell would anybody wanta loosebeards and the The dog did not flinch from his cigarets hung hitched for?” hand and he felt at its wet throat ly and with glowing pin points of get"Well there’s Santa Claus” the red from their mouths “No collar” he said “A stray I “And big man said thoughtfully Go Into Saloon guess” there’s love and things like that The larger man blew out a fog The staining light spelled out a You never heard about what makes of white from his nostrils “Well” single word: “Beer” The men looked the world go round?” he said amiably “that don’t give you at each other and the big man lifted “I heard about that” the barman Alert business men merchants operators of indino license to adopt him remember his elbow questioningly said grinning suddenly “Seems to You was always a fool about mutts "I guess so” said the little man me I heard vidual trucks and operators of great fleets are something about that Leave this one be You ain’t got They pushed through a swinging somewheres but I ain’t got any preference to Chevrolet givingwhat you might call personal experience And I dunno you have to trucks and all of these owners will recommend Chevrolet Uucks get hitched to make the world go round It goes around pretty damn to you because they’re unequaled v alues fast without” “A philosopher!” the big man said Nowhere else in the world will you find trucks that w ill give you admiringly "Another beer I always philosophise better with two beers such great pulling power at such low prices! inside me” He jogged his friend in NEW the ribs "Stop (jreamlng of the Nowhere else in the world will you find trucks that are so mutt an’ open up Jeez you turned VALVE-IN-HEAD ENGINE into a clam or something?" economical for duty! extremely HYDRAULIC NEW PERFECTED The little man said slowly “I was increased with increased horsepower just thinking It's been such a long else in the world will you find trucks with such outnowhere And BRAKES time almost 19 years You torque greater economy in gas and oil a as features and comfort know Lee I had a wife and safety standing performance always equalized for quick unswerving couple of kids of my own back in Yalve-in-IIeaNew Perfected Hydraulic d line” Engine 1817 They died In the ’flu epidemic stops "straight of 1919 while I was still In GerDe Luxe Rear Axle and new Brakes Full-Floatibut you know I got many home for a couple of days’ leave at Cab at Chevrolet’s remarkably low prices! 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