Show Le I Iy I By y Albert Paw sen J Terhune I I THE MEANEST MAN MANX MANA 1 X 1 41 li r N A Piece of Cooked Liver Just Inside the tho Entrance r T WAS A sorrowful little group that stood around a little new nowr heaped mound In the garden of ot ott ers ers' t house on Vine Vine street one slushy shIsh day late in in winter te Old id Man Negley h haq iq dug n. g n. n grave gra In fh the frosi loam alid abd th there tElle he had laid laidA A A. ruined ruffied body a bod body which h a ti tIa day earlier had Imd had been been vibrant with with daily dally happy life me and with Jove ye for Cor nil mans man kind It was the body of Mary Brewers Drew Brew ers ev's beloved beloved- Airedale puppy Mary Maly and a n group roup of children w. w were re w watchIng watch watch- Ing big the burying of their p pet peL t 1 Dont CI cry y dead dearl 1 O od Old Man Negley consoled the sobbing Mary as lie lic finished pJ i J sodden odden mound lla ll- ll a alloy above or c the past all nil kinds of P pain l. l trod treatment ea in nt I now OW Ing lag can c in him any rr auy my more Dy By y and by t you'll I get getto Jo to r remembering what n a. a I happy life you ou gave him and how much you ou did for him and that'll comI comfort com corn I tort fort f rt you u. u Just Just think he might have been OU i Lb folks who'd have bave neglected him or or 01 b beaten aten him or made him worth worth- less e Instead of ot that he was owned 1 by you ou and you ou did dill everything c for Cor him 1111 had lie bad a lovely life with you it t ten n That Is something worth The The oldmans C face ce was very cry gentle aI c ns as he tall talked ed to the weeping weep weep- Ini lag ing Mary But ut as fiS he turned away a Tr nn the group and went Indoors at nt a aall call all from Mr Brewer there was a n flinty set t tp to his Ms mouth and an ugly light In his kind old e eyes es Im a peaceful man Mr 11 Brewer Drewer said he as Brewer beckoned him Into I the kitchen dt len But Id I'd gladly Ia ly do three months months' In In Jail for Cor the privilege e of smashing every ery bone In the body of the blackguard who poisoned that baby's haby's pet do dog If It there Is a u he hell hereafter there must be a n specially sizzling corner of ot It waiting for forthe the tones who poison polson do dogs s. s By Dy the way say he lie br broke k off you ou beckoned me to come In here What did you ou want me for Cor I ought to have asked right ofT off but I was 1 kind of ot riled b by Marys Mary's crying and by by- by echoed Brewer Drewer savagely nothing to the way I feel Its It's nothing to the thc way Ive I've felt Celt ever since we found foun l poor Gyp lying Ing on the doorstep doorstep doorstep door door- step this morning dying of the nia poison polson someone had given ghen him That's why I sent for you Im I'm going to punish the brute who poisoned that brave Inoffensive little mUe Airedale If It it itt t takes kes every cent Ive I've got gilt and If It it lands me in a police pollee court for Cor assault and battery You cant can't do It lt Mr Brewer Drewer said Negley the rotten part of ot It Dog poisoning Is so easy to do and so to hard prove prove If It you catch someone putting poisoned food on your our own land and If It you can caja prove It Is poisoned poisoned poisoned pois pois- then you may be able to do something Je legally legally but but not half hiM enough Or If It you 00 can cnn catch someone actually feeding poisoned food to your dog you ou can cnn maybe do a bit more But nut still sUII not enough As it Is you rou coat cant nt do do a thing Dont Dolit scowl at nt me Im I'm telling you the truth truth even even If its it's bad tasting bad tasting as us truth Is apt to be A dog dug Is the easiest animal anima in the world to poison polson Just as a ac acut c cut cat 1 Is the hardest st t tp to poison polson A do dog bolts down a n chunk chun of meat or of r some other food tood without sniffing atIt atit at nt it or chewing it carefully A cat cut always al aI- WU ways 8 s 's ln ani tastes s a a morsel of food bJ before r she eats it antI and even en then thenh she h d es t Bolt boIt it ft at Tnt a n gulp i i A Q p put t u or arsenic arse arsee pie nic 1 or Io f- f fl glass glass l ss Into a Il lump of pC I heat c t and antl 1 then I valt It his tune time e to tOS toss It toa 3 lle lien nob nobody dy Is looking or else es the H ve 1 Jn in the yard ard of the house lh J jn 1 may have your us C unless you ou ha have haC C post U proof tiVe you cant can't do n u thing M More Mort tl h id it- have have taken m n chance by r sonie le person I had reason renson to to suspect was vas a dog dog only the Uc person person happened to be a Ii woman I silt all I three i dales t s. s Its said that three aa many w women meD are aro dog poison polson 4 m men ni I dont don't like to believe 1 7 t 1 t- t i. i cl Well w sa say there r 1 ia i a qua Ib b bi 1 I tween t tween two tiro w PeOple W I IJ l r to each other each other e ft ItI n es S' 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of a 0 sanitarium a r a n mile DHe 11 y O One One ie of the patients patients- patients a hysterical foul fool t y vc lf tC Yo fot fota a a dressed as asa n map and Ud she y elt l 1 this collie conte lived hived lie Ile see her bet h J US indoors I sonic some P puppies P iI S were r c loose s ihU U I f s crime came racing 1 r p f fofi and j Jumping l at at hers r lh pr r rr l S Site went I home I Jl HI still s 's id lr Id ti the nu nurses es at trae ID s e had been set set bi y I vt J lo s I. I 7 Two To days dIs t later rl grand s. lI He ilp saw a q i bit o of cOQ g e ethe the entrance of Qt J mn t r He lIe ate It At once he be ng ny A vet was Vas rushed rushe to to- to h It was no use Tile The vet mut ml Ul topsy Arsenical poisoning A A sec ond onil bit of liver liver- was WIS found near the thee gate 9 I alj 1 nl Jn l tt l kill two humans But there was no reat rent proof d 1 n Up In Buffalo awhile buck bad Ii d dos dog was po poisoned Ills llis master had this Inscription put over th the do dogs dog's s grave Here 1 lies es Spot po who o J ht f. f square and In the open open- unlike V sneaking coward wf wiio o o c cH H d f Copyright by the fi Syth Inc |