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Show No One to Take Dog's Place. A traveler wna once (Missing on horseback through n backwoods region re-gion where the Inhabitant! wero notoriously no-toriously shlfltesi Arriving at a dllap Idntcd ihanly at Iho noon hour, he Inquired what wero tho prospect! for getting dinner Tho head of the family, who had been absorbed tn "reeling" on a log In front of Ills dwelling, replied that ho "gucaaed mn'd hev aulhln onto tho Initio putty soon." Thus encouraged, the traveler ills mounted Hut to his chagrin, ho found tho food lo be such that ho could not force hlmnlf lo partake ot It Making audi excusea aa ho could for lack nf appetite, ho happily bethought be-thought himself of a kind of nourish mint that he might venture to take there He asked for some milk "Wo don't hev milk any more," drawled the head of tho house "Tho dog'a dead riled week afore last" "Tho dog!" cried tho traveler. "Hut what has that gnt lo do with It?" "Well," explained iho host medl tntlvely, "Iho critters don't seem ter know 'nough ter c'm up ter be milked th Incites, The dog ho used lor go V fetch 'em up" Youth's Com panlon. |