Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1885 — A New Kind of Dog. [ARTICLE]

A New Kind of Dog.

A wild-looking man who resembled one who had wrestled with misfortune in a catch-as-catch-can hold and been thrown in the contest, went into a Woodward avenue bird store the other day and approached the affable proprietor. “Look here,” he said, “may I take yon apart for a moment?” “Certainly,” replied the man of animals, “if you can put me together again.” “Well, here’s a letter from my wife—sav, come out and have something ?” They went and had something; when they came back the Wild-looking man resumed the letter. “She writes me,” ‘*to get her a white can-vas-back dog in cross ” “Now, you go,” said the bird man severely. “Business is business, and I’ve no time to fool away.” He sat down on the curbstone to rest. He was still reading the letter when a sympathetic lady stopped to look at him. “Poor man, aro you ill ?” she asked, kindly. "Heaven bless you, madam, read that letter. If you can and will, lam a savedman,” The lady took the letter as if She were humoring the whim of a lunatic an 4Teas°y V enorigb to read,” she said. “Your wife, who seems to be an excellent woman* wishes y®u to buy her a white dog in cross-stitch, stamped on a canvas splasher, with crewels to finish it, and send by express at once. I'm sure there’s nothing about it that isn’t plain enough.” “Thank you, ma’am. Til never forget your kindness. Where did you say the croes-stitched dog on canvas conld be found?”

“At any art-embroidery - store, * and the lady walked away, remarking sotto Voice: “Of all stupids, men are the stupidest. Not to know what cross-stitch is!” —Detroit Free Frees.