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Show A GOOD CHANCE TO BUY. But He Hadn't the Nerve to Pay the Price De-' De-' manded. A handsome bachelor of Baltimore, well known in social and educational circles, acknowledges the truth of the following story: He was driving with a very pretty and attractive young woman when on the outskirts of the" city they met a laa of about twelve years leading by a chain a singularly sin-gularly ugly but finely bred bull terrier. The pretty pret-ty girl went into raptures over the dog, and her escort determined the animal should be hers. "Say, sonny," he called, 'what will you take for your dog?" "Nawthing," replied the lad. "Nonsense," cried Mr. Blank. "Here's ?5 for him." "No, I won't This here dog ain't for sale." "Ten," said Mr. Blank, and then, growing desperate, des-perate, "fifteen, twenty." But the owner still refused. re-fused. All the time the conversation was going on the youth, although talking to the man in the buggy, kept his eyes fixed on the other occupant of the vehicle, and at last he said gravely: "I don't want yer money, but if you'll just give that lady there a kiss you may have the dog.-J - - - "" Mr. Blank was speechless. He stared at the boy an instant and then put the whip to his horse, starting him off at a run. The story goes that a mile was gone over without with-out a word being spoken, when as the horse's rapid rap-id gait became slower as it turned down a country coun-try lane the pretty girl turned ever so "slightly and said shyly, "Oh, Mr. Blank, why didn't you buy that dog?" Baltimore Sun. |
