Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 226, 3 August 1918 — Page 14

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RICHMOND PALLADIUM. AUGUST 3. 1918.

The Death of Tags

By Claude G. Miller. I

Tne nvxt aay 1 went to scnooi. and after school Tracey. who had not gone to school that day. met Rozzy and I at the gate and told us Tags was dying. Just then I felt my heart drop clear down in my boots. Oh, but I had an awful feeling. We went down in the cellar of Tracey's house and we found him well dead. We all cried even Mrs. Johnson. The next day was Saturday, so we met together at Tracey's barn and built a real coffin with the paddin' and everything, and in the afternoon I helped Tracey carve a tombstone out of wood with simply: "Friend Tags of the Society" on it. - On Sunday we had a regular funeral procession. Dinky Thomas was undertaker and Spike Kaufman was grave digger. They took the coffin to where Spike and his brother had dug the grave, and there we had a regular funeral service with George Duxs as preacher.

. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson come in an auto so did mine and Rozzy's parents wei e there with Kathella and arren Elliott. Of course all the tnivn hnvci vara nut anil Anrinv car.

vices we were both surprised and

pleased to see our dear old Jonathan King and Dr. Peggs come. They said is was a fine sermon, but I never heard a word of it, 1 was I guess I was crying a little, but Helen said it was just fine, he had such fine things to say about his noble bearing, and-so-forth, while Spike read the obituary we buried Tugs. Even Tracey cried when Dr. Peggs led in prayer and a hymn. Four days passed, Tracey, Rozzy and I met in the 'siety rooms to pay off our debts. There was Dr. Peggs who didn't take a cent, because he said we were the first boys he ever knew that had treated their dog friend like a human being, and he said he wanted to give us a tribute to Tags. None of the other fellows that helped us would have a cent neither, so the only expense there was the wood and paddin', those cost us two dollars and fifteen cents and I say we boys were glad that we had saved up enough so that if needed we could have saved Tags life by an operation. Yesterday, Mr. King, our dear old friend, sent us a letter to come out to his farm by Earlham as

soon as possible so we went out

right away, and as we neared his place he met us and we went to Tags' grave and there stood a real tombstone. It read.

TAGS ' DIED NOVEMBER 21, 1916 A FRIEND OF THE BOYS Mr. King Raid that our fathers had gotten together and bought it for us. Say it beat the other one all hollow. We went home and I hunted Helen to tell her of it and I couldn't find her anywhere. I felt kind of bad because maybe Tracey would get to tell her before I would, so this morning before breakfast I went over to Johnsons and found Helen in the garden by herself. She looked at me and said before I could say a word, she said "Curly Martin; I jes despise you." Say, what does despise mean, anyway? I asked her why. She said, "You gave those color crayons to your sister Elizabeth. I ain't goin' to be your girl no more git out of my yard." I went home and thought awful things about Helen because I hadn't given those color crayons to nobody, if my sister got those at all she must have gotten them from my pockets but then you can't convince a girl because I couldn't convince Helen that Elizabeth swi took them nor I couldn't convince Elizabeth that she took them. So I tell you it struck me the hardest because I lost both a real dog friend and a pretty girl friend. THE END.

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