The Bad Boy Raises a Mad Dos Scare.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 381, 3 July 1889, Page 4

The Bad Boy Raises a Mad Dos Scare.

' Mad dog ! Mad dog !' shouted Tommy, as he rushed into a grocery store, with both hands on the basement of his pants, as though a dog was after him, jumped under the counter, and crawled behind the barrel of lump white sugar. ' Hide yourself quick, or you are a dead man.' The groceryraan vvus cutting a slice off' a cheefce for a servant girl with a shawl over her head. His first idea was to run down the cellar, but the girl slid down there, so the grooeryman simply jumped into a ciockery crate, and laid" down and perspired. He wished every dog in the world was dead. Presently he heard a crunching behind the counter, as of lump sugar being chewed by a boy, and ho raised up out of the crockery crate slowly, got out of it, and walked on tip-too behind the counter, and took the bad boy by the ear and led him out by the stove, and emptied about a hatful of sugar out of his pockets. Then he looked at the boy. ' What do you mean, coming in here yelling mad dog, and scaring my customers down cellar ?' and the grocerj'man wrapped up the cheese and called the girl out ot the cellar and sent her homo. « Well, I'll tell you. It was all his fault. You ?ee. we have been excited about a mad dog scare, and I asked pa what he would do it he met a mad dog. I told him he would get up and dust, but he said he would grab the dog by the hind-legaand beat its brains out. He said men were cowards generally. He hated to see men get frightened and run when any calamity happened. I thought I would try pa, 'cause I never heard of his showing much sand. So I took our black setter dog, and took' pa's lather brush and put lather all round the dog's mouth for foam. Then I took one of these little rubber bands and put it around the dog's upper jaw. That made the dog open his mouth and show his teeth, and chew, so as to get the rubber off. But the dog wagged his tail all the time, 'cause he knew it was only one of my jokes on him, and he wasn't mad. But he did look savage. When pa came in from down town ab supper time, 1 was upstairs with the dog, and I let him go, and he went downstairs on the gallop to welcome pa. He thinks everything of pa. Pa saw him coming, and' he saw the foam bn his mouth, and pa's hair just raised right up. The dog was going to jump up on pa, as usual, and have pa take off the rubber band; but pa yelled, "Take him off! He's mad ! Hanner, lock yourself in tho closet, and telephone for the , patrol waggon." Well, you'd a dide to ( see pa, He jumped right over the dog, and went down tho cellar stairs at two jumps, and crowded in the coal- bin under the kindling wood. I wiped the lather off the dog's mouth, and took the rubber band off, and meand the dog wentdenvn cellar and hunted pa out. When pa saw our dog wagging his tail and acting so happy, and no froth on his mouth, he came out, and then he said, ' That settles it. I drank an' egg-nog down town, and it went to my/head, and I thought I saw egg-nog ,0.11 over the dog's nose and mouth, and I thought he was mad. Poor. doggie ! 'No more egg-nog for, your Uncle Ike: And then pa, crawled out of the coal-bin, and' gave me half-a-dollar not not to tell anybodyrhe 1 was scared-. '