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Show MILLARD COUNTY CHRONICLE, DELTA, UTAH Xlte- - 'IllA FICTION By JOHN II. HOSE I v, 4 '.' Freddy and John wanted a dog but they weren't getting far with their plea. Then a stray mongrel wandered upon the scene one day and caused a great deal of excitement. until about a month later. One of the neighbors said: "You know, I think I saw your dog this morning over at the Whit-tie- r school. He was outside watch-ing the children as they came out. I stopped the car and turned around, but by the time I went back to look or him, he was gone." Mother replied that Jack was probably making the rounds of the schools looking for us. We kept searching and hoping, renewed by the news that Jack was still alive. But we didn't have much time to hunt for him, as I was practicing every night for a school play. The night of the play's performance we almost found Jack again. During the second act, there was a lot of commotion near the back of the auditorium, and several ushers ran up and down the aisles. It was pretty hard for us to enact the scene with all that commotion going on in the auditorium. On the way home, I asked Mom what the noise was, and she laughed. "I think it was your old friend," she replied. "What do you mean, Mom?" I questioned. "Why a dog got in during the play and made a bee-lin- e for the stage to keep water from flowing down-hill. Everything went along fine un-til Mr. Westour came over to com-plain that Jack had dug up his gar-den to bury a bone. All our efforts to explain didn't appease Dad very much, and he was disgusted. Then Jack chased Roush's cat, and the cat got caught in the porch railing and couldn't get out until old man Roush sawed the railing loose. Naturally, he wasn't too pleased about that. Dad was adamant by that time, and insisted Jack would have to go. He had found some farmer who would take the dog. But Jack had a knack for taking things into his own hands, or I guess we ought to say, his own paws! He had a habit of following us to school, but we'd usually chase him home after a block or two. But one morning, when the snow was com-ing down pretty heavily, Jack trot-ted along behind us. - "Go back, Jack," I shouted at him. "Go on home, old boy," but the dog kept trotting along behind us. I threw stones at him and tried everything I could think of, but he HVJ7-HY- , how do you do! Won't VV you come in?" asked Mother as she opened the front door. Both Freddie and I looked up to see who the caller might be. The shades were drawn in the liv-ing room, so we couldn't see who was standing on the porch. Mother had darkened the room to protect Freddy's eyes because Freddy had the measles. He was covered with a blanket and curled up on the day bed which had been moved down from upstairs. I was spread out on the floor with the erector set. We waited to see the unexpected visitor, and imagine our surprise when in walked a big brown dog. The newcomer trotted across the room to inspect me, and I patted him on the head. Then he went over to the day bed and nuzzled his big head against Freddy, as much as to say: "Hi, there, Bud, I've come to help you get well!" "O, gee, Mom," cried Freddy ex-citedly, "a dog! Can we keep him, Mom? Where did he come from? What's his name?" "Now, now, not so fast, son," in-terrupted Mother, as she settled Freddy under the blanket again. "He just came to the door when I went to get the mail, and I thought maybe he'd help you pass the time while you're closed up here with the measles. Do you like him?" "Boy, I'll say," Freddy and I chanted in unison, "he's swell!" The newcomer, who was busy in-specting the premises, was just dog; part airedale, part hound. He ' was big, grayish-brown- , and would have passed for a genuine airedale if he hadn't had those big floppy, hound-do- g ears. We had always wanted a dog but Dad said we didn't have a place for a dog, and he wouldn't have one If he had to keep it tied. "What'll we call him, Mom?" I asked eagerly. "Why don't you and Freddy flg- - ure that out for yourself, son," she said as she went toward the kitchen to get dinner under way. All my life I had wanted people to call me Jack, because I liked It for a nickname; but all I ever heard was just plain John, so I said: "Let's call him Jack, Freddy." "Yeah Jack's a good name all right. Here, Jack, come over here, eld boy!" he called to the dog. And Jack wagged his tail, put his big front paws up on the couch, and licked Freddy on the nose. "Gosh, look, John," said Freddy, "he knows his name already." We had a wonderful time with Jack until Dad came home. "What's going on here?" he called when he saw the dog stretched out on the living room floor. "Where did that mongrel come from?" "He came to help me get well, Dad," piped Freddy from his haven on the day bed. Freddy, always could work Dad for most anything, and when he fin-ished telling Dad how the dog just practically came up and knocked on the door to help Freddy get well, Dad just grinned and said grudg-ingly: "Well, I guess we can keep him for a while . . . until you get well anyhow." But after Freddy got well. Jack stayed. Dad kicked about it a little, but he finally agreed to let us have Jack if we kept him in the basement at night, and the dog didn't get into any trouble. We both promised! But keeping Jack out of trouble was like trying But keeping Jack out of trouble was like trying to keep water frm flowing downhill. kept coming right along. Nothing we could do would persuade him to go back. We knew we'd be late if we didn't hurry, so we went on to school. As we entered the building, Freddy shouted to the dog: "You wait here till we come out, Jack!" I asked my teacher if I could bring Jack in, and she gave con-sent if I would promise to keep him quiet. I hurried out to find him, but Jack had disappeared. WHEN we asked: got home that night, "Where's Jack? I haven't seen him all day." "He followed us to school this morning, Mamma," I explained, "but when I came out to get him, he was gone." "Well, I suppose that saves your father the trouble of getting rid of him," she said. "Take off your coats and hang them up to dry. You're all wet from the snow." No one had much to say at the supper table that night. Even Dad was pretty quiet, and he went to the window several times to look out before we went to bed. Two dejected little boys prayed fervently for the g of a lost dog that night. We rolled and tossed all night long, wondering where our pet might be. That was the last we saw of Jack when the ushers caught him. I looked around to see four of them dragging him up the aisle, and it looked for all the world like Jack." "But let's go back and look for him," I cried. "Your father and I did look for him, son, as soon as the play was over," said Mother as the car turned in the driveway at home. "But we couldn't find him anywhere. I guess we're just not supposed to have him back anymore." But two days later, just as sud-denly as he had gone, Jack came home! Freddy was out shoveling snow oft the sidewalk, and Jack came bounding up the street just like he'd never been away from home. Everyone welcomed him back, and even Dad didn't say a word. But our pleasure in our dog didn't last long. About a month later. Jack was lying on the front porch. Teddy Long, a tot about two who lived across the street from us, was playing on the sidewalk in front of his house. He toddled toward the curb, and was climbing down into the street when Jack leaped to the center of the street, - barking furi-ously at the youngster. Just then a car came around the corner, and struck Jack. Jack wasn't dead, but nearly all his ribs were broken. Dad sat up with him through two long nights, feeding him and nurs-ing him, but old Jack just couldn't make it. Our only consolation was that Jack had undoubtedly sacrificed his life to save little Teddy; for the car could have struck the youngster just as easily. But this was a logic dif-ficult for youngsters to understand. Freddy cried as though his heart would break, and I guess I was pretty tearful myself. After waiting so long to get our dog back, it was pretty tough, hav-ing to lose him so soon. Things were so glum around the house that Mother decided we ought to have a party to cheer things up. But It was no use . . . nothing could take the place of our lost dog. Even when spring came and Dad took us on a fishing trip, something was missing. We were sitting on me perch one afternoon waiting for Dad to come home for supper. Freddy sighed and said: "Poor old Jack." Mother asked, "Boys, you're sure-ly not moaning about that dog yet, are you?" Just men Dad swung the car into the driveway. From along side the house, we heard him honk the horn. Freddy ran to see what he wanted. Suddenly, he burst around the cor-ner of the house, carrying a squirm-ing puppy in his arms and shouting: "Hey, Mom, look what Daddy brought home. He's our sew dog, Mom . . . and you know what his name is, Mom? His name is Jack!'.' Mom looked at Dad and smiled, and I thought I saw just the least sign of a tear in the corner of Dad's eye, as the new puppy kissed Fred-dy on the nosa " "a i j ' ' ' ' - : r ? ' j - "v ' . t.ijii..yi , 44. V.v jt jt .1 tilt' Bake Your Fruit Cakes Early (See Recipes Below) Early Christmas Plan IT'S NOT TOO early to think of Christmas now, especially if you want to have fruit cake and plum puddings on hand. These foods are best when mellowed and ripened for several weeks be-fore being eaten. LYNN CHAMBERS MENU Tuna Fish-Nood- Casserole Green Beans with Cheese Sauce Carrot Sticks Baking Powder Biscuits with Jelly Pineapple Chiffon Pie Beverage degrees, in a pan filled with ont inch of hot water. Bake one-ha- ll hour. Cover with waxed paper and bake for two hours. Then remove pans from water and bake one-ha- ll hour longer. Remove from pans; remove paper and wrap in fresh paper. Store in tightly covered tin. IF YOU'RE LOOKING for a sim-pler fruit cake, particularly for a small family, here's one that is very tasty. Simple Fruit Cake cup shortening 54 cup brown sugar 3 eggs, beaten 1 cup sifted flour teaspoon nutmeg Vt teaspoon cloves Vi teaspoon baking powder V teaspoon baking soda Vi teaspoon salt 2 cups seedless raisins Vi cnp candied citron cup candied orange peel cnp candied pineapple cup candied cherries cup pecans, chopped Cream shortening and sugar, beat in eggs. Add raisins and all fruits, diced fine, and the nuts. Fold in flour which has been sifted with spices, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Bake in greased, waxed-pape-lined pan in a slow (275 de-gree) oven for one and one-ha- lf tc two hours. If you bake rather than bake-stea-the fruit cake, have a smal Then, too, it's a good idea to get some of the work out of the way before the holidays are literally on top of us. There's a lot of work to preparing the ingredients for both fruit cake and pudding because they both require chopped fruit and long baking and steaming time. WHITE OR LIGHT fruit cakes find many admirers each year. This fruit cake is not as heavy as the dark kind, and you may find it nice to vary with the latter variety. White Fruit Cake cup butter 1 cnp sifted flour teaspoon soda 2 tablespoons lemon juice 6 egg whites,' beaten stiff Wt cups powdered sugar cop candied cherries Yi cnp candied pineapple cap blanched pistachio nuts or almonds H cup sultana raisins Cream butter thoroughly, then add flour mixed with soda. Sift sugar into beaten whites, combine with the first mixture and add lem-on juice, fruit and nuts, cut fine and sprinkled with flour. Stir thor-oughly and bake in a loaf pan lined with buttered waxed paper. This baking will take about one hour in a slow (325 degree) oven. Because the dark fruit cake is so rich, it's a good idea to steam it first to cook thoroughly, then to bake it, for drying out. The cake will be more moist when prepared in this way, and you dish of water in the oven so that the cake will also have more moistness and will be glossy in appearance. Trimmings put on the cakes will be able to slice it thinner. Dark Fruit Cake 1 pound brown sugar 1 pound butter 1 pound flour 12 eggs, beaten separately 1 teaspoon soda 1 teaspoon grated nutmeg H pound each, candied orange peel, lemon peel, citron, all cut fine H cup molasses H cap fruit Juice 2 teaspoons cinnamon 1 teaspoon ground cloves H pound almonds, blanched H pound pecans, unbroken 2 pounds seeded raisins 1 pound sultana raisins 1 pound dates 1 pound figs 1 pound candied pineapple 1 pound candied cherries Cut pineapple into small pieces. Remove stem end from figs and cut. Stone and cut dates. Mix all these with one cup flour. Mix the re-maining flour with soda and spices. Cream the butter until fluffy, add the sugar, then the well beaten yolks and stir well. Add the flour mixture alternately with molasses and fruit juice. Gently fold in the beaten whites, then the dates and raisins and other fruit, amd nuts. Line four bread pans with waxed paper and butter. Pour batter into pans, two-thir-full. Set pans in oven, 300 should be placed on after they have baked for two hours. Almond halves candied pineapple and cherries are most frequently used. Plum Pudding 1 cup flour 1 pound seeded raisins H pound citron, lemon and or-ange peel, cut fine Y pound seedless raisins pound chopped almonds $4 pound bread crumbs cup sugar 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon H teaspoon ground cloves H teaspoon ground allspice 1 teaspoon salt 1 cup suet, chopped fine 1 cup molasses 3 eggs, beaten 1 cup pickled peach syrup Sift flour over fruits and nuts and mix well. Mix remaining dry ingred-ients, add suet and work In blend evenly; in eggs, molasses and fruit juice. Pour into buttered molds s full and cover with waxed paper. Place in a steamer or top of double boiler and steam slowly and steadily from four to eight hours according to the size of the mold! Store as for fruit cake. One-ha- lf hour before ready to serve, start heating the pudding. Released by WNU Features. LYNN SAYS: darnish Foods Properly Te Stimulate Appetite Garnishes make food more attrac-tive and thus stimulate digestive juices to aid the way in which we use foods. Keep garnishes simple, fresh, ap-propriate and easy to make. Edible garnishes are far superior to mere-ly decorative ones. Lattice potatoes are effective for a platter of fish or chops or steaks. Add parsley for color, if desired. Roast duck takes well to a garnish of endive with orange slices or rice cups filled with current jelly. Sausage, meat balls and chops are attractive when they are placed on a mound of rice, mashed potato, macaroni or a green vegetable such as spinach. With a roast of beef, lamb or mut-ton, use browned potatoes or mashed potato cups filled with green peas or diced vegetables; boiled onions with sprays of parsley; slices of carrots or turnips fried in deeD fat. 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