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In the seedy shooting coat bad one ofthe greateit heads In the dog breedingbuslnoM I gueea you never heard ofDill Dorgan

Bill stArted hU ftolentiflo experimentswith a snub nosed little bull terrier whoseknnnel name was Dan Bill had pickedDan from a Doveooat Derringer litter totia a prlu winner He slapped a fancykennel namo on him and got ready to sweepthe puppy clan

But the older that pup Dan got thehe got Ills nose snubbed down till

It turned up and then pointed off at theend in a way no respectable judge wouldlook at for a minute It was a Dudley noneanyhow Just blotched with white

He growed a nturnmlok like an aldermanand Utile spindly legs and a sickle talland-h didnt have no style or atand It theyt w ws a dogthat diegraceu a good familyII wa that dog Dan

1 happened over to Bill Dorgan onestayed to supper There In the

h i i wax that pup living with the familyWhat areyou doing with that said I

to Kill

Its my hotwedog says BillWell If I was raising a housedog says

I neem to me Id tie to something that-c nt calculated to give a nervous babythe

80 nays Bill kind of joshing likeAnd he didnt refer to the subjeok again

till after supper That dog Dan laid on thefloor all through supper never paying noattention to anybody which struck methen as kind of funny In a ninemonth pup

Hed lay with bla head on his pawswatching the door And by and by thehair on his back would begin to bristleand then hed begin to watch something

Hed foller It all around the room withbis cyee till it got into the fur corner andthen hed crawl up close to tbe fireplaceund Mick him tall between his legs andgrowl under bin breath and then toiler Itback After hed done that about fourtime he took to sneaking out and trallinthe thing

Hed crawl after It like a cat with hisnote on the ground kind of whimpering-to himself

Walt a minute says Bill Watch him

nowThat pup Dan was trailing again Thistime when hed got to the far corner hestiffened out the way a bull terrier alwaysdoes when bes ready for trouble and gavea little growl In his throat and jumpedHe smashed into the corner no bard It gavehim a bloody nose and swung around likea flash and bit the air

He chased all tbe way to the doorsnapping and growling There ho stoppedwith him legs spread out looking disap-

pointed and foolishBill turned up the lights and that pup

Dan went back and laid down by the fire-

place and seemed to be athlnklngWhat the boil says IThats what I wanted to Mt you about

says Bill any dopt In yourfu him

or two says ISam say lUll I want them dog

And then Bill loosened up and talkedHed been worrying a good deal it seemsabout some property that had been leftby his uncles wife and hed went to see amedium about It taking Dan along Andthe minute the medium got Connectionswith Bills uncles wife seen her standinglooking over his shoulder that pup Danhad been took withone of his fits of fight-

ing the airRight there Bill got ideaSam he says to metlwys fortune in

It AH years weve been breedingdogs for and aim ignoring theirIntellect You ought to ee it as plain asyour nose If you breed the shortesttailed dogs you can find to the shortesttailed dog you get a race of bobtailedlog dont you Well if I breed dogs that

things at night to other dogs thatthings at night what do I get Ask

yourself The spook hound And Ithought it all up Its going to l e themaking of the Mayfleld Kennel

Well the upshot of it was that I let Bill

have all my scrub dogs that had a Way ofnoeing things though 1 hadnt no faith Inthe oherne then He got a lot more fromthe Wanderer Kennels and the Sparrownook Kennel and begun to experiment-

The first generation of them dogs couldnil see things at night but they couldnttoiler em beyond tbe door any morenDan could The second generation waaable to trail em clear out Into the yardand the third could trail em all over Madeall kinds of trouble up George wayscratching up gardens and barkIng up trees no that people thought they

Many a dog Bill lout that wybut bo on I was convincedby time that there was something-In it I wanted BUI to go and an-

nounce hisYou Bill till I raise

two litters Ive got now And he tookme out and showed em to me

For looks they was the darndeat youever saw Bill hadnt tuok to no specialbreed he had wed bull terriers and floesand Newfoundlands and dachshunds andfetter and plain curd Any dig went as

long as It could Me thing at nightMme Blavatsky II the mother of one

litter looked like she might be Newfound-land crossed on dachshund with a dash ofterrier and the pups have no shapeat all They had point where

all looked alike and maybe that wasaccident They had great big sad brownrye and sunk cheeks And they neverlaughed and wagged their like otherIOR but Jest looked kind ofthoughtful

Looks good to me says I but whatate you going to do with em now youvegot em

Easy money says Bill In the firstplace every rnediwn in the business willwant one of em and in the second placethink how I can clear out housesThey cant really hurt thebut no ghosts going to stay whereef spook hounds Is pestering him day andnight Between you and me Bill Ive tookthe contrack to clear out the old Connollymansion as soon as I get this hunch ofpups raised

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We took six dogs each of us leadingthree I had William Henry Bishop a-

cross between flee and greyhound and MrSludge who was mostly hull and MadameBlavaUky III There was so nun

Madams BUvatsky IH tbat youem but her attack was gray New-

foundland She was the pride of thekennels

Bull led Mr Sludge and Katherine Tingley and Lucy Fox after greatmediums was Bills Idea Hedbeen reading-up on spooks

was a black dark night with cloudsover the moon a great night for ghosts Inever did have such a time handling dogsWo came down the banks of the Hudsonwith them six dogs limping at every tree andtrying to nose at every fence and growling-at things

You know about the Connolly place Iguewi big lawn all gone to seed and lots oftrees and t whopping big old house Theres-a big reception room or dance or

I on the ground floor galleriesrunning around the top and all kinds ofshadowy corners

We sneaked into the big hall with thefloor cranking and we down and took theleojiW off the dogs and Bill hada bullsoye lantern with He lit itand turned it away down so it gave justenough light for us to see a little and notenough to scare the ghosts away And

we waited The dogs was layingus all quiet

All of a sudden Madame Blavatskybegun to growl under her breath And aminute later every pup In the bunch wasgrowling and shaking and watchingcorner with them awful big eyes

Looking at the direction of their eyesyon could sos em foller it from the cornerto the middle of the floor and then up thobig staircase and down the staircase againand off into the corner Mme Blavatsky-got up you could her stiffen aU overand begin to toiler but Bill held her down

Leta wait till it plainer says

BillHo hadnt no moren said It than thedogs began watchin1 again The thingseemed to be coming down the staircaseand oros ing to one the big pillars thatholds up the rout

seemed to stop by that plllarandI just then the whole bunch of spook houndsI broke away from us altogether and went

crawling and crouching towardthat pillarThe next you know they broke out barkingunder their breaths all to once and Jump-

ing and yelping and trying to climb thepillarAnd

the first thing you know Dill and-

I begun to see something Right on thetop ot the pillar where they was a lot ofdinkurabob they was a kind ofmist and crowed tillwe saw It was a ghost

Hon Id been expecting to ghostswhen to the Connolly anilI was protected by the boat packof spook hounds In tbe world hut my hairrow up and my collar got tight Just thesame There sitting on the ornamentlooking down at the hound like a treed

I coon was a little old chap In knee breechesand a pig tall looking like one of the pic-

tures in tbe geographyIt felt like we set there for hours the

dogs looking up and growling the littleold man kind of shifting uneasy like everylittle while and Bill and me shivering alldown our backbone And then MmeBlavatsky begun to sot queer

She begun to stiffen out and

log out stiff a a poker with nothing mov-

ing but her tall Once In a while thattall would hit the floor in a regular thumpthump

Whats doing says Bill to mebeing a BplriohulUt he wasnt

much And then all ofa tot tbe Idea together

was spirit rapsBlavatxky owing to careful

breeding for class In spook seeing wasmore than a spook hound

She was a medium dogOne rap for yes two for no says Bill

in tlK ghost Do you want these dogs togo away

Thump goes Madame Blavatskytall

All right Will you quit haunting thishouse If I call em off says Bill

Thump thump says Madame Blavatskys tall

To make it short bow we talked withthat ghost for an hour Madame BUvatakystall lining out his answsra until the ghostpromised to go and do his haunting somewhtre

night we the Headless Hessian and

It proper The dogs treed him byhis horses legs Of course the

nips went right through but still It pesteredhim and up a tree they went

Seems kind of funny that a horse evena ghost horse climbed a tree but thatwhat be And Madams Blavafekythumped against the trunk of the

while the Horseman promised tothe Island of Manhattan

By that time Bill wouldnt hays Uadedthat gray cur Msdnme for Cham-

pion Dovecote Emperor But the jolt wascoming

All of a sudden them seemed tolose the power of seeing altogetherTheyd lay by the fire at night and chawhence and sleep jut like any other dogsThey got the habit of wagging theirand barking and even eyes didntlook as big and sad as they used to

I Three times Bill and I took am outhouses that wa haunted just andnever got a smell of a ghost The dogs

just curled up In the corner and slept orran out to tbe gate to bark at

Bill knowed something was wrong buthe couldnt figure what it was Bo finallyhe went to Mme Parkin tblsUte writingttfdlum who used to give him wonderfulcommunications from his dead relatives

Themedium raised a spirit right off

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that I It by This is bow it

This Is to that order of tbeExecutive Council no allied our

hounds They areAnd was signed by the origInal

Madame swesry of tileProtective Union

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I He Wasnt Werrted-i The Great Ice Age came sweeping over

tbe prehistoric world wafting its Icy warnfrom the line of glaciers that were

crunching their theand driving herds of mam-

moths andcreatures before them

then the prehistoric Paul feversbounding on the

back dinosaur and shoutingguttural warnings to the Cave men

Ing Run for your lives or you surelyi Tut lull staid the Cave roanI from and calmly

munching the thighbone of aare you the hero

rather that now

Well BO long as Its not the Age of Plumb

Whereat the prehistoric philosopher reUrea calmly to caveself raiment so that his fossilremains would make a good appearanceupon their dbut In an museum-a years later

The Mound KjtplalnedLaboring crudely but unceasingly where

now stands the Middle TXest the

build upof earth that even now van fittingly be calledthe American Pyramids task Mingan expensive one tax collector as a

of course was a frequent and ob

builders campedHey Mound Builders

you say that the tax this month U tourquarts of corn and throe wampum belts

kindly tell me theuse of the senseless ex-pense construction

sense of It laughed the tax col-lector Dont you p touch with

Why aint no forthe work except the good one afat city the chief of this tribe I

see your dis-trict hell get a on

But the Indignant mound builder outhis chisel a soft bit of sandstone andImmediately indited a letter signed Pro

to tho Csnriform CWi rWhenever modern nclentUts dig up aof that newspaper will aboutthe rear their heads InOhio and other States

Modern MethodsFar In the murky recesM of the pre

forest echoed and reechoed theroars of the macholrodus or nabretiger bunting for histhe scent meat had betrayed his banquet-the prehistoric manof raw meat that he wasmunching listened a moment end then took

on runKlantbrowed and bowlegged though he

was thin man of ransurprisingly welt and with Intelligence

however his fierce attackon the raw meat he earned

And yet mused the manbitterly BJI he hopped over the high places-a years

hae the nerve to call us unf IvlllreUI Whywe are to date and a little ahead of itTalk of modern methods how is this

He hit Into the raw meatfor the quick lunch and raw meat fads

combinedthen the bitter thought came that

he would never know supreme andsatisfying of a fl cent

California wine and ragtimewhereupon this hon

tone hatchet and facedthe machalrodun to

the Tenderloin sport of bucking the

void THlaS SOUK MK AUKComplaint Front the lady at the Coriet

Counter ef Intrusions In tier HealrnMen are certainly getting bolder said

tbe prim looking xplncter behind the cornetcounter in the drygooda store reallyshocking the way some men go on nowwhen it cornea to buying corsets for theirwomen folk

You wouldnt think that a solid builnesman of this town would asMit his wife Inbuying every pair of corsets she wears

the mans name you would knowhim instantly for name often printedIn newspapers

The he came here withwife he Beamed a trifle bashful but I mustsay he got over that when he appeared tho-second time Why the tbecorsets you have thought he was

the now and I dontbelieve wife has bought a pair ofIn two comes along tohelp lies getting to be quite expert

hes not one husbandI mean There are of the unattached husbands coining here on the tamesort of errands are HO braren that1 would Ilku to Intuit them but if I didI wouldnt be here

A many women are educating theirhusbands corset lore by themalong when corsets The

their on a pretty corset nohow expensivefor that half the high pricedcorsets are made to catch theeyes of men I mean the silk ones andnot the common serviceable

Why a young woman camea blonde wearing widows

i weeds accompanied a young moan Hewasnt Im sure was toosolicitous She a black corsetThe mans a bluesilk creation Would believewoman bought the blue silk pair Theywere cf thedidnt make difference to her for the

that washis excuse for buying them

It makes me to see such goings onhut I cant help It If Ibanish the man from the corset counterI dont know bow man whohere alone to a corsetplenty of that

know what they want I can mostkind of a corset on a woman If It la withinher by telling her It Improve hershape and it is tho Intest you

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Difficulties of Finding Steeping Accoiamodatioru for the

GiantThe only great giant ever got

any really comfortable sleeping accom-modation when the show movingfrom one point to another by night saidthe old circus man was when we happened-to strike a canal

lit was all right when we were haltedanywhere say for a week or even for over-night for there he slept In hU own sleeping

tent specially designed and builtfor him that was something like a canvastunnel Of course wealwaysoarrledaloaghls-own private travelling bed which was ofample width and made in that couldbe put together in and so IA

his sleeping tent be could b quitecomfortable But when we were actuallymoving the giant was likely to have a hardtime of It at night

Ktllroads were not so many In thosedays and even it there bad been one every-where we wanted to go hed have had toride in a box oar and that wouldnt havebeen either pleasant or for himand so night on the road was likely to be amighty uripleasant time for the gIant

We did use to rig up a tort of a make-shift bed for him of with hla mattresses on them on polethe ends of the planks renting on thewhich the was carried

were all the time workingor the he on them on

country roads was always something feardidnt so on the

always meant a hard time for the giantexcept when we struck a canal along ourroute and then the WM la clover

we used to charter a canal boatfor the giants special use and on the deckof that boat we set up hissleeping tent with inside put together

his regular sectionalof the we were a trifle narrowthat were not so wide on tleck ait

tent would be when It was setplenty of room for It to stand in with Its

we woulddraw the tent In a little at the sides

along the bottom and there WM alwaysample room for bed inside

Into his tent anti onto hisown comfortable bed on the deck of a canalboat bo could an a matter of fact sleep

about as comfortably an he could ingreat In his own two

story room in his house in winterquarters

was no twitting or jolting on this

and quietly and smoothly its ownwater came

a near to being an Ideal sleeping place usanybody was

more than satisfied when we couldmove him nt night by canal boat

And we used to strike nuoh chancesoftener than might think for there weremore canals then or were more usedIn those before the common intro-duction everywhere of railroads And soin summer thewhere we could tent regularly-for him and all the giant used to getwith comparative comfort-

It was winter when he had tosleep indoors that we used to have thereal trouble finding sleeping accommoda-tion that is of and we

hint out but one or two winterthat account Sometimes in

the smaller those days as I gueMIve told to to take tworooms for him two connecting rooms with-a door between anti stretch line of cotsatongin the two rooms tImebetween maklnga most uncomfortable bedfor him And sometimes when we couldnteven find like that he had to sleep-on down in a bowlingmaking a bed not much more comfortable

Into two roomsAnd so we had to give up taking time

on tbe road In winter an an attraction byhinuelf showing In halls on account of

quarters for mind thereafter hespent the winters most com-

fortably shows winter quartersbeard the great man say

more than once when we were oflife on the road that he never slept morecomfortably anywhere than he whenwe to a canal boat

IO AlHEItlCAMi irORK IIAnPTe Rays a Fsrrtgntr Who list limesLeaking for taptaltif of Indnitry

This talk about American business-men working themselves to death t allbosh says tienor Jacques Bulller whohas come from Buenos Ayres to interestNorth American capital In a great ranchcorporation About the most strenuouslife Imaginable i that of trying to findthe captains of American Industries In theirpilot

I In Xew York early In Feb-ruary and thought I could see tbe tltlwnsI had on list In one week Ive beenworking steadily for six woeks dayand and so far cor-ralled only a dozen out or a possible hun-dred American man Istime leisurely individual Ive everrun

Ilnre is note book in which I havedown experience while en-

deavoring to locate men lettersto At 13 Nassau street I was told thatAugust Belmont had gone to Palm BeachFin on a three weeks vacation At theNational City Bank I learned that 1Udent James was also in Florida

At IS Wall street Charles Gates told mathat his father was at IAM An-geles Cal but when I reached thatresort two later John W Gateshad left for of Mexico AtTalbot J Taylors office sixth floor 15Wall street Is known a HKeenes headquarters I was told thatMr Keene not een In twomonths and that be was WaldorfAstoria

At James J Hills office at 33 Nawaustreet his secretary said ho was at at

for At John D Rockefellers officeroom M Broadway the attendant Incharge said was In

At IV Broadway I learned thatGould WM on a tour over his railroadsIn the South and West At H B Claflln-Jt Cos I found John Clafllns office closedHe was ant In the West

secretary to Presltbe New

Company said tbat Mr McCsIl was In theAt l Wall street was told

that Lowry was In Europe andoffice 16

Hugh J Chlabolm of 30 Broad street wasaway Bo was Mr James Hpeyer of 71

street who will net fromEurope before April 11 I alto found that

J was abroadSo it after day I tailed

find the gentlemen I to InterviewThose I did catch at theIr Were Frank

of the NationalCity Bank Cornelius N Bliss Col Daniel N-

II CMy luck In other cities was about s

bad In Philadelphia John B Stetsonwas In PresidentWilliam L Abbott of the IronCompany was In In Louis

Francis of the Purchase was abroad enjoying amuch ret

In D H Burnham architectwas In the Philippines and President JohnJ Mitchell Trust and SavingsBank was in California

The next time any one tells me of thehard life of the business man of the TrilledStates ill flash my little record of cellsmade on a hundred of them and directattention to the fact that an even dozenwere found while eightyright awaytaking life easily

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But a Difference in the Telling of ItNow and a Quatter Century Ago

THE toes sTony AS IT USED TO UK

from Frank Kit liti Monthly SO

was indeed beautifulwith delicate cameollke featurenra wealthof shimmering hair and great violet eyen

curling lube swept her velvetIn a robe of pale blue gauM with

necklace and bracelets of pearls She wasa vision to enrapture any man most of all

Sir Guy costing aside ll thought of tbeconsequences reckless of the Impendingdanger now nearer than ever folded herIn his arms and covered her face with road

Then gently she released her-self and pointed to the secret staircase

And now go she implored Io orwe are

He an instant with one foot onthe stair She never forgot

look In a moment goneand Elaine was left weeping and aloneIn the great

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Bhe drew on herwalked out Bhe was proudlyerect His step was unsteady

up the rushes Such Is life

rilE LAST 1000quirk Change In the Fortune of

Harry GamblerHIIKXI Mont March JJSo Little

Harry Is in butte eh said an old timeraddressing a group of friends in alobby evening Thnt reminds rae ofperhaps the most remarkable quick change-of fortune that any Mantananltn bun evermet where the kane was a pure gamblingproposition

LlttU Harry a you know is none otherthan Harry Woolrloh an Inveterate agambler as has ever appeared in the en-

tire NVrthwest He lived In Helena manyyears leaving permanently I think along

levithe early days Harry probably made

as many sensational playa ut faro as anyman I ever knew Just where he managed-to secure his stake was often a mysteryas not Infrequently he would lose from15000 to 10000 at a Hitting but he alwayscame back with a fresh roll to renew theattack on the tiger as faro is called

In those day stud poker was a gameIn favor and particularly with

king night Harry engaged-In a game of stud poker In the old Com-

bination gambling house at the bead of Mainstreet In this city and although he was un-

fortunate at flrAt tbe cards finally favoredhim and when the game broke up be wasnearly S2SOOO winner-

It had always an ambition ofto own a gambling house of

own and with this amount approachedPoker Brown the proprietor ofand offered toBrown was willing to sell hut wanted120000 for or a little morellooo amount had

to effect a reduction into correspond with his capital but

Brown was andthe full umoimt Harry became disgustedand declared that over tofaro HIU win the deficit

assented of course and Harrystarted out He was soon 00 winnerand it appeared that he would within afew moments the requisite amount

But alas for The cor 4

began to drop In a directionwagers to make a long story ihi

when arose from aftera more ban twelve hebad lost th entire 116000

Brown shortly afterward sold the placeand to Montanahe Is today one of its cattleHarry went from Montana to Dawson

Nome hut Is now making SanFrancisco his headquarters where hasa small racing iui month he paidButte a visit hut did not ooroe toHelena

IIK4P MtCIt STACK VJ4V-

lo and Ills Squaw Are Deeemlng PopularT pes In the fMna

The Indian and his squaw are comingInto their own said tIme chronic

Have you noticed all the Indians andsquaw on the stage this season

Take Robert Edecona play StrongThe character U anTrue he is a good Indian and a

mighty Interesting clean civilized one atthat

Tben at Webers Music Hall you willfind a lot of squaws are interestingbeceuee are pretty and not Indians

mans burdenand If dont like em why there

man himself as played

At Iw FieldiH Tlieatre you find anothertroupe of squaws with a man at their

Go to vaudeville houseand arm a not to findIndian maidens Timers are lots ofthis waxon There Is a whole of

girls There are others for Iveother has been worn

out and players are just waking up to thehis make

subjects Im no prophet but fromthe number Indian Indiandances Im Inclined to think that we arejust In the beginning of the I hopenot for Indian In minethe real article and not the civlllwd kind

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The circus had come U the long dustystreet of tho village came the long processionIn the lead was the band wagon filled withperspiring musician wearing red coatsUpon their gaudy caM stood noddingplumes like those of a hearse Tbe wngouwas drawn by eight milk white steeds tbatpranoed gayly to the hrareti musio ofTherell be a Hot Time In the Old Town

TonightFollowing the baud te cages con-

taining the lions and born In captivity who had Oscar the veldtand had never known the of devour-ing a captive And In the rear of the procession came three mammoth elephantlike moving mountuix with crimsonsashed Indians from Indiana upontheir

As this marvellous cuvaluude twisted before the wondering eyes of barefootedJack Doolan and his brother they

with astonishment and delightthe terrible that could

kill an ox with one blow of their huge pawsmother bad frequently told him

great and dogs over the hotsands of the In the night to commitinurdor nicor feet anti ilbtendtii-oyes the hov follow oil the cr incutlonJack evon brave enough cnoo u touchthe dirt eiicrunted skin of the bin mountainof flesh that cloed up tlm procession

After three hours of marching andcountermarching there me upon lUp en-

chanted vision of the boys huge tentrising like Cheops in the middle of a meadowTo lacks lrnpa loned BO time canvaspyramid seemed the culmination of ro-mance What wonders from tie

did It tilde from hi lunging eyesArid how impotslble It would be for himto enter tbU arcanum of delight fur It co tthe btupendoH Hum of 21 cents to nothrough the canvas entrance and Jack

never owned more than id cents at oneduring brief pilgrimage of

years on Fven sumbeen recured the utpvn e of hcrvulean sacrifice

Jack had heard older and more expe-rienced boys nay that there lied actuallybeen eaten where small boy hindan entrance by carrying water for time elepliant but when he had applied timidlyto tho red at the door for theMewed boon of water carrier to the timslodons he met with a surly denial on timeground that he wa too small Too smallAnd Jack felt that he could have carrieda bar o pig Iron In such a cause He waxconscious of a deep contempt for himselfbecause he was too small to city waterwhile at tho moment hi mothers bucketstood empty In the kitchen

Jacks mother wn a widow and herlittle boys were always hungry She wasone of the Little Sisters of Penury time larg j

society In the world Her hands werecalloused by contact with the waobttib j

She bought her coal by tho pull and therent a source of worry So whenboys came running Into the houseand panting unmindful of the ton bruiseIn heel she knew clrcubad verne Hho was also aware that there

no money In tIme house and that aquart of onions and half a pack of potatoeswere a feeble barrier against starvation-

As soon as Jack could get his breath hebegan relating the wonderful tale tomother interrupted at Intervals by Larry

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Is ws loin tomorrer or de nexdayHow long i the circus going to stay

here asked Mrs Doolnn to gain timeIt nlnt gcln till Saturday replied

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Well maybe you can RO Saturday nightreplied Mrs Doolan hesitatingly and shemuttered under her breath God forgiveme for tellln that lie Then kho addedBut you be too wire I told

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appointment III Mora for themThe widow tossed uneasily on met

that night trying to think out tinfateful financial problem of how to raise j

IO cents by Saturday There herSunday dress But slip had worn It for i

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In the gnat she lay down to pleasantdrxoni-

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Till wan an expression nf admirationeoiie by llm majestic pose of tho goshfor there WH no aniiiiil of her species inthe VIIK thai could compare with herfor Utility with soft brown eyes andher mug niUy

Id like u that for me littleboyn rod wagon wild Csllalian coming-out from behind this counter He pickedup a pipur hox from a i lr filled it withgrass from hick yard mid pUcmi Itus a propitiatory offvritic In front of thegoat She nniffod at the turned thebox over with her now mid the lox

Tlm grieved at this ApparentHo did not stop to reason out

the fact that the goit was fond of brownpaper because it contained molawcis a fartIn nati ul history of which the lovers ofgoats ate usually ignorant limit he didbecome aware that nniiny walked with aslight limp due to a deliberate attempt tobut t a trolley car off I IIP t racl It had ben

out of mind to step Inof time hoi9 ears and eft tin humfor no decently educated lioraa will stepon a when trolley cars superHeded horses this goat walked In front of atrolley car and hence time limp

limit mime transfer of the KOAtwns effectedand Mm Dooku received one dollar Therewas an affectionate parting between thiswidow and tbe goat u Collaban tetheredtime animal in tbe yard He congratulatedhimself meunwhlle on hU bargain and feltatwured hat It would IM a miracle if thewidow succeeded in hoarding a dollarBut be like nil villains forgot a necessaryprecaution He foiled to soak the ropewhich bound the nanny to a stAke withkerosene

Why go into extended description of theunalloyed joy which the hearts of thetwo Doolan buys uw they on thebenches of the circus language is amedium with which to order a beefsteakbut it I a feeble vehicle with which to

youthful happine Why recall howlack and tarry divided their pint of peanutsbetween the Ussr and the ostrich and theelephant iolo stacks xaiulwlcli from hlaunresisting hand It U sufficient to saythat tarry fell asleep when he had gluttedhis eyes on the thrilling spectacle and hittoothier was forced to carry him for twomiles against her overladen heart MrsDoolan was so utterly tired she didget that she forgot to kitchen

In half an hour the little family was burledIn time sleep of exhaustion lImit presently-Mrs was awakened from her heavyslumber by a sound as of wood striking onhone Till was repeated in several sharpquick blow The nolle ceased for a fewseconds and succeeded by a sound asof hard breathing Then she heard a suppreed whimper from Jack in the adjoin-ing

I net the gun out of the oosotmother Theres a robber at tbe door

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Oway from there you you orIll nil you full of lead

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