PAGE SIX
Lore for D<
By Albert Pa]
WHEN EVERYONE C
He Thrust One of His Hands ii Bctv
Ha-d at S
OLD MAN NEC.LEY was trimming
the Shrady hedge, on Vino
street, one morning, when Pick
Rentier eaiue running bareheaded
across the street, in evident distress,
and hailed him.
"Nejrloy!" he exclaimed. "We're
Just back from the shore, ten minutes
ago. We left our big St. Bernard
with the maid, while we were gone,
lie has rabies I He developed it three
days ago. one evening just after she
had fed hint. It came on. all at on?-p.
She sent for the vet. He said It's a
true case of dumb rabies; and the only
thing to do is to shoot him. Will you
do it for ys? I haven't the heart to.
Ill pay you well. The poor fellow Is
I In awful agony. I left my wife crying
over him. She thinks the world of
that poor old dog. Hurry, won't you?"
Old Man Negley laid down his clippers,
and followed the excited man
across the street to a shaded back
yard.
There, securely tied to his kennel
with a chain that would have held an
ox, stood or rather crouched a beautiful
St. Bernard dog. Just out of
reach of the chain?In case the dog's
madness should take a turn toward
violence?stood a weeping woman.
The St. Bernard was .dumped weak- |
ly against the side of his kennel. His !
great head was hanging- Now and j
then he made a feeble effort to stick I
Ms mouth Into a pail of drinking wn- I
?er with his swollen tongue.
For a dog must u>e his jaws as well
as his tongue." in drinking ; though few
humans realize this. Jfhd this dog's
Jaws were stretched wide and lmwov-,
able.
O'd* Man Negley studied the snfferer.
for a moment; while Bonner went
Indonrs for his pl&iol. Then, disregarding
Mrs. IWnner'a tearful warnings,
the old man walked calmly up to
the rabid dog anil knelt beside him.
forcing the dog's head upward and
gazing into the wide mouth.
A second later ho thrust one of his
own hands in between the slavering
Jaws, and yanked hard at something. I
After which he drew forth in triumph
a small knuckle-bone of mutton that
liad wedged Itself at the point of contact
Of rhe lug Jaws, far back where
the "hinge" is formed, on the righthand
side.
Bolting his dinner, three days
earlier, the St. Bernard had been
chewing this bone, when its knuckle
had become wedged there, preventing
him from closing Ms mouth or moving
ids Jaws from ir wide-open position.
Vbr seventy-two hours, the poor
creature had remained thus, suffering
and helpless to eat or to drink?especially
to drink, though the weather
was hot and dry.
As Dick Benner cntne out of the
honse with his pistol, he saw the dog
make a fmnrie dive for the water^pali
and begin to drink ravenously.
K " A cruln rtf * ? ?
a ton of cartridge load." commented
Old Man Xegley. "The execution's
postponed. Here." holding up the
knuckle bone, "here's you 'dumb
rHbles.' Such bones have caused
many a 'mnd dog scare,' In their
lime: and made many a suffering dog
lose hut life by a bullet.
"Hold on. there!" he interrupted
himself gently pulling the dog away
from the w: rer. "That's enough foV
now. Another dr'r.k in a few minutes.
Too murk, three hot days' thirst,
might hurt * ou I susplcioned what
was the mailer v. lten he said the rabies
came on you all at once, right after
dinner. Thar isn't the way of rabies;
or any other disease."
"lint." cried Mrs. Benner, throwing
her arms around the shaggy neck ?
the rescued trembling dog, "but I ont
understand?"
"Most folks don't," responded Old
Man Negley. That's why so mo w
^ i.t . t Li. i" j ^ - U
and mad dog scale*.
^For Instance, you'd have sworn j
t|Us <484 of yours was In the last 1
i * i if
?g-Owners
rsea Terhon*
:RIES, "MAD DOG!"
tmrnf* Qot-t ..
veen the Slavering Jaws and Yanked
iomething.
stages of duiiit rubles; and you'd hnvp
bad him shot to put him out of his
misery and to save yourselves from o
!?ito. It'd be as sensible to shoot a
man who hns an ulcerated tooth. Only
the man can tell you what alls him
and the dug can't. . . .
"Now you can take another drink,,
old boy." he Interrupted himself.
"Only a few laps, though."
"Yes, ma'am," he continued, "of all
the fool terrors that spring up from ,
the fright-swamps at the bottom of the
human hrala, the mad dog scare is the i
silliest.
"A dog ge*s lost in the street. He.
cant Mud his master. He doubles
back to look for liirn. He gallops
around in circles. He's scared.
"His tongue hangs out. most likely.
Maybe he happens to run through a I
mud-puddle and gets splashed.
"Some boys see him and give chase.
They v*lt him. maybe, with stones.
He's n'.l confused and terrified. Someone
yells, 'Mad dog!'
("When a child gets lost in the
street, he Just stands and cries; snd j
all the world rushes up to help him.
When Hjdog gets lost lie runs around
to find his master; and all the world
yells, 'Mad dog!')
"That's the end of It. The fool
cry Is taken up. A cop comes with a
gun; or the stones find their mark.
A poor, friendly, harmless little dog I
Is kiiled; and the crowd breaths free'
to think that an awful peril is stumped
out.
"Or maybe a doc is sick; and wants
to crawl away somewhere to hide or |
to die. Dogs are more considerate
than us humans. They try to get out
of the way and not bother anyone,
when they're sick.
"Folks see hint slodcking down the
road with his .tongue out and froth at
the mouth. And the mad dog scare!
starts.
I've talked with doctors who know
about such things. They tell me;
there Isn't an average of two cases of j
real rubles in any state In the Union
in u whole year. They tell me, too
(and I've seen It. myself). that*a real- ,
l.v rabid dog won't lOrn out of Ms way
to bite people any more than a typhoid j
patient will Jump out of bed to chase |
his nurse down the street with an a*, i
".He'll snap at people in his path;
and he'll snap at the empty nlr. But j
he won't move a step out of his way
to attack.
"In old times they used to say that
If a dog refused to drink. It was a
sign that he was mad. Ever hear
such Idiocy? .
"If only we'd learn to use half the
common sense about dogs that dogs
use In dealing with us, what a grr.nd
world tbis'd be!
"By the way, I've been bitten, twice,
by dogs that were supposed to be mad.
And I haven't gone mad from it, to i
any extent, yet; though that was ten
years or more ago. Another fake
shown up!^
"Xow then, doggy, one more drink I
for you. Then, while theylre warm- j
Ing a little pan of bread-and-mllk for
your dinner. 111 go back and finish I
my work on that hedge."
(Copyright by tha McXaught Syndicate. Ioa)
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FACTORY TOWN NEWS
Mrs. Bob Davis of Mineral Bluff
has been visiting her daughter, Mrs.
Jim Foe for the past week.
Miss Ruby Rogers was the guest
of Mr. and Mrs. Forest Tegue Friday
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