THE TRAMP AND THE DOG.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4496, 2 June 1883, Page 3

THE TRAMP AND THE DOG.

A big, lonesome-looking dog sat at a gate of a house on Cass-avenue yesterday, eyes full of tears and his whole body shaking with cold. A tramp, who hod neither overcoat nor mittens, and whose bare toes peeped through bis boots, was making his way up the street in search of therifcht kind of aside entrance, when lie espied the dog and crossed over and said : —"Well, noir, this is an unexpecetd pleasure ! Upon my soul, but I have found one living thing in this town as poorly off as myself. Say, old fellow, where do you hang out ?" TJje dog looked at him through his tears, but had nothing-to say. " Tough, isn't it P" continued the man. " I look old and seedy, and you are tht homliest dog I eversaw. That strikes a fraternal chord, and we meet on a level. I haven't had a square meal for.a week, and yon haven't seen a bone for the past ten days. Even again, eh?" The dog shivered and whined, and got up and sat down, and the tramp drew closer and said :—"Nohome, eh ? Neither have I. No one to whistle for you P Same here. That's even again. I can warm up my shakes with whisky, while you have to grin and bear it. Thai's Where I've got the dead-wood on you. I can talk through my nose and tell fifty different pitiful stories to excite sympathy and bring out cold victuals, while you have nothing to say for yourself, and must take bones or go hungry. That's anotherfor me. On' the whole, I'm ahead of you, and although you are only a dog, I'm glad on it. It's* something to feel that you are a peg higher than an old yeller, homeless, hungry ear. So long, old fellow." As the tramp started to go the dog reached but and snapped his leg, and then took a ran for it. " Say, there, hold on !" called out the man as he wheeled around. " I said I was abeadi but I'll take it back ! You can lunch on my legs, while I'll see this country teetotally busted to New Jersey if I don't die of starvation before I come down to eating dog ! Even, old fellow-rjust about even on the average, and no use of any hard feelings over it!"