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Show JUST A LITTLE TOO HASH Chances Are Colonel Newton Will In vestlgate Hereafter Before He Makes a Complaint. "Have you noticed that dead dog It Harris' back yard?" inquired t'oloua Newton at the breakfast table. "No, I haven't; I didu't know the) had a dog," bis wife returned. "No more did I, but there's a dead dog lying In their back yard, and It'i been there for a day or two. If II isn't disposed of by tomorrow I shall notify the health department." Aa the dog was still there, stretched stiff and stark, upon bla return at night, the colonel telephoned the health department to come In ths morning and remove the body of a dead dog in bis neighbor's back yard, which waa becoming offensive. The men came early, before the col onel Lwd left home, to attend to th n;tter. He saw them pick up the ant nal, drop It suddenly and turn away The colonel, mystified, hurried out U see about it. "Why didn't you take that . do away?" be sputtered. The officer eyed him coldly. "Aw, come off," be said. In a tone of disgust, dis-gust, "that's a stone dog; piece ol brlcky-brac; put out there fer the ash man." |