Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 184, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1913 — TOOK ON DIFFERENT ASPECT [ARTICLE]

TOOK ON DIFFERENT ASPECT

Somehow Antics of Playful Pups on Second Morning Did Not Appeal to Mr. Knox. The morning was young and beautiful and Mr. Knox stood at the side window and looked over into the next yard interestedly. He chuckled for sheer delight as he watcheij the antics of two little pups his neighbor had bought a few days before. “Oh, Amy, come here and see these pups, over in Porter’s yard,” he called to Mrs. Knox, who was busily arranging the breakfast table. "Aren’t they just having a circus? Bless ’em!” he went on, with all the. effusiveness of a genuine dog lover. “Oh, look, Amy, they have taken the morning paper off the porch and each one has an end of it in his mouth, tussling with it Is there anything In the world more cunning than a little pup?” His enthusiasm was running away with him. "I think, dearie, we will have to get a dog one of these days.” The next morning Mr. Knox arose, dressed and went down to bring in the morning paper, as was his habit. He was just in time to see the cunning little pups next door playfully tearing his paper into shreds and each vanishing around the house with a portion of it. He came back to the kitchen sullenly. “Those blankety blank dogs next door have torn up the paper,” he said, with no trace of his earlier enthusiasm. - ’