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Show AS TOMMIE UNDERSTOOD IT Figure Out for Yourself Just What Had Been Done With1 That -Dog Ordinance. One year, in a certain town in Maine, a tax was levied on dogs for the first time. It caused quite an excitement ex-citement among the dog owners, as many of them had dogs good for nothing noth-ing except for pets. So the next year an article was inserted in-serted in the town warrant to repeal the dog law. All interested attended the meeting. When Mr. W. came home his children, chil-dren, who had a pet dog, met him, eager to hear the result. Mr. W. said: "Well, boys! they have repealed the dog law." Little Tommie. four years old, ratched the words from his father and entering into the spirit of the occasion, oc-casion, rushed in to where his grandpa grand-pa sat reading, and shouted: "Grandpa, "Grand-pa, they have peeled the law dog!" "Have what?" asked grandpa. "They have peeled the dog." ; "What did they do with the peeling?" peel-ing?" asked grandpa. ''Don't know. I'll ask papa," and he legged it for the door. "Papa, what did they do with the dog-peels?" "Buried them," said pap, laughing, Tommie rushed back. "They put um on berries, grandpa!" "What did they do with the berries?" ber-ries?" asked grandpa. "El. urn. I spose!" said Tommie, thoughtfully, v |