| Show i THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE JUNIOR Page Four Tales of Real Dogs BOY: The Bulldog Hero of seventy-six-year-ol- double-barrele- rough-lookin- d -- farmhouse There are old people in nearly every rural region who are supposed to have money hidden away There is practically never any basis for these This pistol too was cleaned But nearly every month ’ recluseg by supposed hoard of cash and who tortured the unfortunate oldsters in an effort to make them tell where it was hidden That is a phase of human nature— or Inhuman nature— which dates back to the most ancient times The proven fact that most of the victims are as poor as they are eccentric does not aeem to have any effect on the wealth V g o her rumors a Wild Melodrama morning a couple of- men came to the kitchen door and demanded to see a "Mrs Jones" Mrs Dunn told theift no Mrs Jones Yet they7 hung around lived there a while before obeying herhint that they look elsewhere for the mythical Mrs Jones This and their looks and manner roused the old lady’s suspicions years she had During her eighty-twlearned to "read people’s characters with much accuracy And she made up her mind that these two rough strangers had- - come to “spy out the land” before returning lor a less peaceful purpose So she cleaned and oiled the ancient She shotgun and loaded it afresh' She hunted around in attic did more trunks until she exhumed a pistol as ’ as the gun ' old and as black-and-whi- te But if Mrs Dunn was old at least she was not defenseless and her heart did not contain an atom of fear' When friends protested against her living so fax from town and with nocompanion except another aged woman she merely nodded toward Boy She knew they and the shotgun would guard her from all harm Back in 1872 when the antiquated gun was new Mrs Dunn learned to shoot it with all the skill of a born Then she took it out into the back yard and did a bit of target practice just to make certain she had lost none of her old knack for handling firearms But she found that age and rheuma tlsm made her aim uncertain with the pistol though she could still hold the shotgun steady and could aim it So she resolved to trust straight to the gun and to discard the smaller and less reliable weapon That night Mrs Neal went to bed But Mrs Dunn did not Mrs Dunn had a feeling that her two rough visitors were going to pay a return visit She wanted to be ready for them did hut sat her bedroom in therpitch darkness alertly on guard She held the loaded shot- Boy the bullgun across her knees dog snoozed at her feet (Apparently she believed in the maxim that "one watchdog indoors is worth two watchdogs outside") Then well The hours dragged on past midnight there was a short jingle of the telephone in the next room Not a ting but a confused tap of the bell S i Application for Membership in Knighthood of Youth Name newly-arouse- d The light went out and there was another screech of pain Meantime Boy had leaped through the window and was hurling himself at the men There was a mad rush and a scramble followed by the whir- somehow had managed to reach their car and they were in full flight Mrs Dunn Teloaded her gu£ gmj more shots after them When neighbors arrived in the morning they found a pool of blood and a trail of it that ended where the woundede men htd reached their car 'Boy and the shotgun had done their work right effectively But Mrs Dunn belittled her own share in the battle and said she owed her life to the bulldog Whichever of the two deserves the chief credit one thing is certain: - Local “bad men" from then on shunned the Dunn farm as warily as if it had been full of tigers and rattlesnakes All honor to a grand bid lady and her gallant bulldog! 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The geography and the English book Were having a quarrel one day Each one was the best in opinion expressed Till the English hook ran away Parents' Name Date of Birth - Grade In School ’ ’ (City) (County) Name of School Bate of Filing Application I Earned This Money by’ H ' Mrs Dunn guessed what that meant Someone was cutting the telephone wines She sat up gripping the gun more tightly and whispering to Boy to wake from his doze Dark as was the night her eyes had growq Used to the blackness Through the window she could see dimly a man’s figure bending over in front of the locked screen door of the porch There was a soft scraping sound The man was cutting a hole in the screen just above the lock The second of the two men seemed to think it was a waste of time to use so much care and secrecy in getting into the house whose occupants were ‘ helpless old women For he smashed the window of the and stepped boldly in living room This room was through- - the gap bedroom off the and the door just between stood wide open Then it was that gallant Mrs Dunn went into action -She shrilled to the bulldog: - “Get him Boy! Get him!” As she spoke she whipped the heavy shotgun to her shoulder and fired The man let out a yell of pain and terror The bulldog had fixed his teeth deep in the intruder’s leg and dragg him clear across the room before the thief could break loose and escape As he reeled out into the yard the other man fired three revolver shots One of through the broken window the random bullets went through Mrs Neal’s skirt Mrs Dunn hurried to the window shotgun in hand She saw the glint of a flashlight and she fired at it man-eatin- Knighthood of Youth Editor The Salt Lake Tribune I want you to enroll me as- - a member of the Knighthood of Youth and I inclose 6 cents which I have earned myself to pay for my first button and chart - I pledge myself to be strictly honest In filling out my chart Age Address Will Your Name Be Listed Upon Our Next Score? PAYSON TERHUNE e d 12 1933 BY ALBERT marksman In 1933 her eye was as "keen as ever and the trigger-finge- r of her rheumatic old right hand was as steady as it had been sixty-onyears earlier when she and her shotgun were both in their early prime While she and Mrs Neal were busied with --household work one This story would fit better Into the Western desperado period of sixty years ago than into the civilized Twentieth Century and a civilized part of the country named Its hero is a bulldog “Boy" But its heroine was of the type whose cleverness and cool courage gave a shining glory to womanhood in the She was Mrs pioneer decades Uriah Dunn a widow eighty-tw- o years old She lived on a farm near Corning Iowa in company with Mrs Frances Neal a widow The two old ladies lived there all alone except for Mrs Dunn’s bulldog Boy The dog was his mistress’s chum and protector Her only other protection was an shotgun antique made in 1872 Both dog and gun did valiant service for her in a time of dire need as you will see Like so many elderly people who 'live in the country In semiseclusion Mrs Dunn had the reputation for being richer than really she was Money was supposed to be hidden in SUNDAY MORNING NOVEMBER (Explain in detail just what work yon did) TOMMY— Dishes in Destruction " (State) - "Oh oh I am best" cried Geography “My now what a merry chase” He ran and he ran just as fast as he 4 5 ' 4 4 could But he never did reach first place ANNE GARFIELD 13 Mona White spots on the finger nails are probably caused by the use of metal Instruments at the nail base The word probably is used advisedly since 'it is not definitely known What creates the disfiguring blemishes No application will have any effect upon them “I know these are good books that's why I’m pullin' for them!” ARVAL GROVER By Norman Price A 4 WHAT WAS THAT Bt6 NaseTorwr toil eu KNOW - THAT vase with TH05E VON It DONT YOU Lime i ? i ail t t f |
