Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1886 — A Fable. [ARTICLE]

A Fable.

Once upon a time a hungry dog found himself in a butcher, shop when the butcher was away from home. Appreciating the fact that he had struck it rich, he began looking over the stock to select what was most digestible for the stomach not accustomed to three meals a day. He saw many juicy bits of tender loin and porter house, toothsome morsels of mutton, lamb, and veal, and ripe, luxurious chunks of liver, but they'Were hung beyond his reach, and all he could secure was a string of sausage. He rubbed his nose against it once or twice and then again turned his eyes and thoughts to the steaks and joints above, but they were as far awayjjas before. After several fruitless attempts to attain what he desired he reverted to the sausage, and once more fondled it tenderly with his nose. The temptation was a sore on 6 and the struggle was terrible, but at last the poor hungry dog overcome the cravings ami "layings his paw cn his stomach with tears in his eyes, he went out of the shop, saying in a choking voice as he took a long lingering look at the sausage: “I am very hungry. I know not when I shall get a bite to eat. I may die of starvation, but thank God I am no cannibal !” and he came forth into tlie cheerless cur of a supperless world, as hollow as when he entered the ; shop.— Merchant Traveler.