PRESIDENT McKINLEY.
Here is a pood sr.ory about President McKinley. The President was taking ij" siroli in a Washington suburb, when hi 4: observed a little girl of six or seveft ■; . * H-J' superintending the aquatic movement# * 'of a retriever of which she was ift r ■J’ charge. To please the child Mr>4£| McKinley threw his stick into the pool) and the dog, promptly seizing it,f i| brought it to the bank. The maided. VI ■shouted* “ You are a ’dear 'good ‘doftq|| Mac! ” ■ “Mac! Why la he.named Mac?-,#| asked the head of the Republic. i[; f|| The child, unaware <>f the President 1 *; j|| identity, replied, “Why, sir, P a P*4M called him * Mac ’ after Mr. McKinley, “i the President, you know, because can fight our neighbour’s 'dog 'that'* called Bryan.’’ President McKinley gave the littli:"7| ■damsel a coin, and walked away, looking very much amused. UM : :• &
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 172, 1 March 1902, Page 4
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146PRESIDENT McKINLEY. Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 172, 1 March 1902, Page 4
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