Show ja jimmy ammy gets a dog doi in a heedless moment the king homes hornes yielded to jimmy s ardent and vociferous pleas and admitted that it might be possible to permit him to have a dog to play with up to that ime they had been able to match his teasing by a succinct and comprehend compre hen sive no nol but now life was vastly different every homecoming of the elder in members embers of the family if not greeted by bring my dog was hailed with the wall when kin I 1 have my dog or kind of a dog is it im em going to geta until the th ie king reached the stage where their opinion on dogs as a whole was so intense that it was wordless I 1 the situation led to dissensions also for both King thorne and his wife ac aused the other of having been the one who said the fatal word of assent the peace of the family was gone and an the more they argued the worse I 1 it grew of the lot jimmy was the most injured tor for with all the bicker ing because of a dog there wasn gasn t any flog dog you said I 1 could have a dog he invariable ended in the plaintively ac so cusing cueing tone before which all well brought up parents shrink when the King bad had time to look for a dog they never could find an attractive one and if they did see a possibility they lacked the time sitting in her living room one after noon conversing with visitors about green tomato pickles mrs after staring from the window gave a little shriek just the thing she cried how did it get there what demanded her caller there aren t green tomatoes growing out there pickles repeated mrs king thorne dreamily no it its s a dog II 11 doesn doean t seem to belong to any one either everybody looked the dog was most apparently youthful because it still babbled slightly when it walked or rather rolled for it was fat and globular made still more so by a thick coat of woolly brown fur from prom one end of the brown mass a pink nose stuck out and from the other end protruded a tiny plumed tall he really was too much like an ideal puppy to be quite true there asli t a soul in sight asserted mrs King thorne and nobody would let a puppy like that go tor for a walk alone so it must be lost it 11 get stepped on or stolen or something and to own it would send jimmy into hysterics of joy so really I 1 think it U Is my duty to rescue the puppy don I 1 you everybody wanted to see the puppy at close range so everybody sail yes mrs King thorne went out and brought the animal in dont dogs have germs sad and things demanded one of the visit ors ore it is likely to give jimmy some thing isn t it that was why everybody followed mrs King thorne down into the laun dry to see her give the wait waif a bath he ile was very little and the tub waa was very big and the soap was exceed angly fluffy so it took four of them to wash and dry him afterward h he frisked in front of a grate fire and mrs King thorne admired herself ex for finding him jimmy for some reason was late but presently King thorne arrived he seemed a little dazed at the chorus of joyful shrieks and the bundle ol 01 brown abrown wool that was thrust at him well he murmured in a puzzled tone one that doesn doean t look a bit like the one the one cried mrs King thorna thorne what one and what Is it the bell rang just then and king thorne thorns went to the door when lie h rejoined ahem them he was leading by a leash an airedale pup A grownup grown ui airedale Is without doubt the ugliest dog yet invented but an airedale pup transcends by a hundred degrees the ugliness of the grown up airedale there Is no use la in trying to tell wha whal King thorne s pup looked like because if adequate w weds ads could be found nobody would leeve the description anyhow King thorne spoke into the immense silence almost defiantly iles he s a bench dog he be said all my life I 1 ive ve wanted an airedale and I 1 am sure jimmy will be crazy about this one so will you when you get used to his looks and appreciate his noble nature that brown woolly thing t any class my dear well I 1 like him I 1 cried mrs king thorne indignantly jimmy slammed into the house just then something slammed in with him it was an overgrown caI calt like flike creature ealure cr all legs and tall and tongue with a great ugly head and its style of architecture was a comb combination I 1 nat I 1 0 n of f everything even thing from early greek down hes mine jimmy cried proud ly an man gave him to me an I 1 les e s goin to sleep in my room an everything every thin I 1 an you said I 1 could have a dog he gave a passing glance of disinterested scorn at the blooded airedale and the toy woolly up I 1 suppose said King thorne with I 1 L i resigned sigh to his wife that we tan chloroform our dogs it Is always difficult to argue with ne lie who refuses to talk back |