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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH Practical Gifts rr )v( T'HOSE things that are not practicable are not desirable. There is nothing in the world really beneficial that does not lie within the reach of an informed understanding and pursuit. There is nothing that God has judged good for us that he has not given us the means to accomplish both in the natural and the moral world. If we cry, like children, for the moon, like children we must cry on. well-protect- ed 4 ;n n 1 rnmn Burke. Rags to the Rescue What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence. Johnson. By FLOYD GIBBONS i , "Vf OU know, boys and girls, sometimes I wonder if dogs havent got as many brains as most humans, and this is one of the days I feel that way about it. Its an adventure story that called the question to my mind a yarn from Mary Sorg of Bronx, N. Y. Mary has a collie named Rags, and, if Rags isnt the Einstein of the dog world, IU eat his leash and muzzle-r- aw and without catsup. The adventure happened to Mary in the summer of 1934, but the beginning of the story goes back a lot farther than that. It goes back several years, to a farm out on Long Island near Jericho, where Marys uncle raises collie dogs. Mary was out there one spring when one of the dogs had a litter of pups.' They were fine, healthy pups all but one of them. That one odd puppy was streaked and spotted with just about all the colors youre ever likely to find on a dog. He looked like something the cat brought in, says Mary, and my uncle was going to have it destroyed. But I begged him to give it to me instead, and he did. With His Benefactor. Ugly Pup Goes So Mary saved that pups life and she lived to be mighty darned glad of it. For the pup grew up and one day he returned the compliment. One day, in the summer of 1934, Mary went back to her uncles farm in Jericho for a visit. She took Rags along with her and that turned out to be not such a bad idea either. It was just a few days after she had arrived at the farm that Mary set out on a fateful walk across the fields. She was go ing to call on another girl who lived on a nearby farm and she took Rags along for company on the way. Mary crossed one field and came to another that was surrounded by a barbed wire fence. She climbed through the fence and Rags scuttled through beneath it. He ran on ahead while Mary continued to make her way slowly across the meadow. She had gone maybe twenty feet and Rags was way over on the other side of the field, when sudoenly she heard a grumbling, snorting sound behind her. Mary turned, let out a loud scream. Behind her just a few feet away was a huge bull pawing the ground and getting ready to charge. Maddened Bull Gores Defenseless Girl. Mary had on a red blouse and a red cloth cap that day. Some folks say that anything red makes a bull mad. Others say he can get just as Defendant Not Held for Act of His Arm THE CHEERFUL CHERUB A lawyer, defending his client on a charge of housebreaking, concluded his speech: Your Honor, I submit that my client did not break into the house ax all. He found a window open and merely inserted his arm and removed several trifling articles. Now, sir, my clients arm is not himself and I fail to see how you can justly punish the whole individual for an offense committed byhis limb. Very well, said the judge, I sentence the defendants arm to two years imprisonment. unThe defendant smiled, screwed his artificial arm, and left the court without it. I dont like, znts so very well. Hard working insects tkovgk they be For wnen Im sitting tke dress in lney et too intimete with me. (VVCawi ?h,vCukj WNU Service. 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TO JOIN, simply send the coupon below, with two Post Toasties package tops (additional package tops for other prizes shown here). G-M- Badge, n, Rags Was Drawing the Bull Away from His Mistress. mad at green or any other bright color. Anyway, the bull was coming after Mary, and Mary lost her head. She started to run for the fence, though she knew shed never make it. Pounding hoofs thundered along behind her. She could feel the beasts hot breath on her back and she screamed again. One of her flying feet stumbled over something on the ground. She tripped and fell headlong. In a split second the bull was on her. Mary could feel sharp horns digging into her sides. The bull rolled her over and gored her in the chest. She screamed with pain and waited for the end. It would only be a second or two before those pointed 'horns came down again! Canine Toreodor Begins to Torment the Bull. t But that moment never came. As Mary waited with tight shut jeyes for the death blow she heard the big brutes hoofs pounding away down the field. Wondering, she opened her eyes on the strangest, sight anyone ever saw. Half way to the other end of the field were the bull and Rags. Rags had Marys red cap in his mouth and, like a canine matador, was drawing the bull away from his mistress. Each time the bull lunged at him Rags would leap nimbly o one side. That happened twice thrice and then Rags, dropping the cap, , snapped at the huge beast and caught him by the nose. With a toss of his head the bull shook Rags off. Meanwhile, Mary was getting to her feet. My chest ached so that I could hardly move, I started to run toward the fence, but the minute the bull she says. tsaw me moving he turned and made for me again. Rags bit him on the flank to take his attention from me. Rags Strategy Succeeds in Saving Marys Life. How long that strange battle went on Mary doesnt know. She sort of went out of her mind about that time, what with the pain and the anxiety. The next thing she remembers is reaching the fence and climbing over it to safety just as her uncle and another man came running to her rescue. Then she thought of Rags again and turned to see how he was faring. Rags wasnt doing so well. He was crawling across the field, to the fence just barely able to move. He dragged himself up and collapsed in a heap while the bull, bleeding at the nose and blind from rage, snorted and pawed at the ground a dozen yards away. Tenderly, Marys uncle lifted Rags over the fence and car- ried Mm home in his arms. They had the doctors in for both Rags and Mary. The bull had 'broken three of Marys ribs and Rags had a broken leg and a nasty wound in his side where a slashing horn had caught it and tore it open. But they set Rags leg and patched up his side and now Mary says hes as good a dog as he was before. ' ; - ) C WNU Service. 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