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Show PUT HIM ON WHEELS OWNER IMPROVED THE SPEED OF PET DOG. Olsaollltfei of Dachshund Overcome by Simple Arrangement That Could Not Have Added Materially to Grace of Movement. Mount Misery, a small hamlet on a sterile acclivity somowhoro out In Now Jersey, Is Inhabited by a vencr-ablo vencr-ablo deacon who bus coino down to bis follow citizens from n formor generation, gen-eration, says tho Now Xixrk Tribune. In this progress ho has been closely followed by au ancient dog answering answer-ing la tho namo of dinger. Ginger was In somo ways cut out for a larger lar-ger nntmal, but n too profuse- element of the dachshund filtering Into his constitution bo turned out in some ways n small one. All his logs wore too short, nnd his keel, so to speak, scraped on the' ground. Ho had, therefore, little more speed In pursuit or flight than an oyster. When ho went to tho postofuco to get the mall, ns ho was trained to do, It took him nil tho afternoon, whereas, If he had been up to Mount Misery's normal dog stnndards, he could havo got around In halt un hour or so at the outside. Musing on tho partial disability of Ginger owing to Ills irregular build nnd confused typu of architecture, tho deacon reached the conclusion that n pair of wheels attached to the animal amidships might help It out in varl-oiib varl-oiib ways. So, being of nn ingenious turn, ho dovlscd nn attachment of the kind nnd strapped tho dog on It with tho happiest results. Swift Camilla, scouring tho plain, flying o'er tho unbending torn and skimming along tho main, could not havo put In n higher record for speod than Ginger did In tho ardor of his first experiments on running gear. Ho cut pigeon wings nnd various geometrical geo-metrical figures nil about tho place, and ns to pursuing dogs, which had caught him qulto easily beforo and periodically chowo.l both of his cars pretty nearly off, ho now loft them "hull down," with what the side-show "barker" would dcslgnato ns "llttlp or no case." Ginger's celebrity speedily overflowed over-flowed the limits of tho Mount Misery neighborhood nnd presently tho showmen show-men began to come to look him over and see whothor ho was likely to prove- n drawing card or not. Somo of them thought ho was and offorcd his owner a liberal rake-off of tho gate- money for tho privilege of exhibiting ex-hibiting him. But the deacon said no. Ho had brought Ginger up from puppyhood and was not going to pnrt with him now. Though thoro might bo monoy In It, ho was not to bo made a show of and derogate from tho dignity dig-nity of his birthright. So tho animal continues to wheel round his dazzling spokes In his natal neighborhood nnd is probably tho most spectacular foature which that modest hamlet has over presented. |
