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Thursday, March 24, 1949
A Short-Short Story
JACOB DOES IT
Jacob knew there was some
thing wrong. He hadn’t seen
Dick in .wo long weeks. An age
to Jacob. Dick knew just how to
rub Jacob’s ears and give him
a pleasant tounseling without
hurting him. Os course, ladies
were all right in their way. Ja
cob knew because he had so
many to protcet and look out
for. His very own mistress, her
mother and grandmother.
Usually thhey were very good
to Jacob but sometimes they
complained of muddy paw
marks on the rugs or scolded
him for burying his bons in the
pansy bed. Dick said Jacob
couldn’t help making muddy
paw marks on wet days and
that every dog ought to have
a place to bury his bones.
Jacob gave a little whine. Was
that Dick’s little car? No! it
looked like it but it wasn’t.
Surely Dick would come pretty
soon. When he did, Jacob would
be ready to run down the steps
and meet him.
Jacob’s pedigree was obs
cure. He was small and white
with brown spots, short legs and
a rough, shaggy coat. His eyes
were the only really beautiful
thing about Jacob. They were
large and brown and shining
with affection.
Jacob’s mistress had rescued
him from a drunken tramp. Her
name was Margaret Allen and
she was pretty and young and
gay. Dick was manager of the
office where Margaret worked
and sometime she was going
to be Mrs. Dick Brennan, if
everything went right. But it
hadn’t. Margaret came home
one night and cried and cried.
She hugged Jacob and told him
that Dick was “a mean, jealous,
old thing.” She said he didn’t
want her even to speak to an
other man.
Soon after that Mr. Bolton
began calling on Jacob’s mis
tress. Mr. Bolton didn’t like Ja-
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cob. He said Jacob was a “dirty,
little mongrel” and once, when
there was nobody else in the
i room, he gave Jacob a kick. Mr.
Bolton made Jacob miss Dick
more than ever.
; Once more Jacob looked up
and down the street. Dick’s car
i was coming around the corner.
Jacob gave a joyful yelp and
ran down the steps. But Dick
didn’t stop. He just drove right
along. Jacob yelped again. His
short legs worked as fast as he
could make them go. But he
couldn’t catch up. And Dick
' never looked around at all.
• Jacob’s tongue hung out. His
legs ached. Dick’s car was out
of sight. Jacob wanted to go
home. But which way was
home? If he had been merely
taking a strolll, he would have
. noticed the streets, but he had
been racing at top speed with
his mind fixed on Dick. Now he
. was lost.
; Up one street and down an
other he trotted. Nobody seem
ed to have timo to pay atten
tion to a little, lost dog. By and
by Jacob crawled in under some
steps and lay down. In the
morning he was stiff and cold
i MORE
More than 10,000 people are
expected to attend the next ses
son of the Southern Baptist
Convention, meeting at Okla
homa City, May 18-22, 1949.
and hungry. He began to follow
people hopefully. One man told
him roughly to “Get out!” A
boy threw a stone at him.
Jacob felt a sharp pain. After
, that he was lame and his leg
hurt all the time.
Jacob felt that the world had
turned into a terrible place. He
grew hungrier and hungrier. A
■ big dog, a great, savage brute, 1
chased him. Only Jacob’s being
so small that he could squeeze ,
through a hole in a high board
fence saved him. He squeezed
through another hole and came ,
out on a different street. There
were streets everywhere. All
Jacob could do was to keep
wearily hobbling along, hoping
that just around the next cor
ner would be home.
Jacob didn’t know it but at
that very moment his mistress
was telephoning to Dick.
“Oh, Dick, have you seen
anything of Jacob?” she ask
ed. “Mother says she saw him
racing after you. He hasn’t
come and we’ve looked and
looked for him. We telephoned
the Animal Rescue League but
no dog answering his descrip
tion has been brought in. I’m
worried frantic. Suppose Jacob
should get run over! Suppose
he should just keep wandering
until he starved or froze to
death. Suppose—”
“Stop supposing things!”
commanded Dick. “I’m coming
right over after you. We’ll drive
through all the streets where
I went after I passed your
house the other night. I re
member I was traveling pretty
fast. Probably Jacob tried to
follow me and couldn’t keep up.
If anything bed happens to
Jacob, we’ll all feel blue. Jacob
is the friendliest little mutt on
four legs.”
Jacob sat a long time on the
curing at one corner. Soon it
would be night again. The wind
was cold and his lame leg ached
worse than ever. Just as he was
thinking he must find some
place to crawl into, a little car
came slowly along. A little car
with young man and a pretty
girl in' it.
“Bow wow!” barked Jacob
“Bow wow!”
He ran out into the street
his tail wagging joyfully. The
next minute he was in Mar
garet’s arms and she was hug
ging him tight.
“Oh, Jacob, you blessed little
nuisance!” she cried, “I’m so
glad to find you ”
Dick acted glad too. They
both tried to pet Jacob at once.
Their hands touched and clung.
Dick topped the car and put
both arms around Margaret.
They seemed to forget all about
the people going along the
street. They even seemed to
forget about Jacob for a few
minutes.
“I’m sorry I was so snappish.
Dick,” said Margaret softly. “I
—I don’t care anything about
Mr. Bolton. He’s just an ac
quaintance.”
“I was a jealous ass,” con
fessed Dick. “Anyhow, we’ve
learned our lesson, Margaret.
We’ll trust each other after
this.”
Margaret must have been
willing to trust him because she
let him kiss her right there be
fore everybody who happened
to be going by. Both of them
laughed and Dick kissed her
again. Jacob cuddled down be
tween them. As soon as he got
home, he ate an enormous
supper. He limped some but he
trotted upstairs and down just
to make sure that everything
was all right. And nobody said
a single word about dirty paw
marks or dog hairs. Not a sin
gle word.
Nice to Know
Flapper—What did Dad want
to see you for?
Nervous Suitor—He wanted to
know if my intentions were
strictly honorable.
Flapper—And are they?
Home On the Range
“You’ll be my little lamb,
won’t you darling?”
“Yes, if you’ll be my shep
herd.”
“What do you mean?
“You herd me.
A Mental Slip
“Did you have a nice walk,
Phylis?“
“Oh, yes, mummy. And we saw
the funniest man!”
‘Really dear? How was that?”
“He was sitting on the side
walk talking to a banana skin.”
Safe Argument
“Are you in favor of daylight
saving?”
“It has its advantages,” ans
wered Senator Sorghum. “It
gives people something to argue
about that involves no possible
mutal insinuations as to nor
mal character.”
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A wife is never able to under
stand that when it is too wet
for her husband to work the
garden, it is dry on the golf
links.—Jackson News.
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Impudence
Her car had been parked be
-1 side a fireplug for three hours.
As she unlocked the door and
1 got in, a policeman who had
been waiting for the culprit to
appear, sauntered over and re
' marked:
1 “I have been waiting a long
time for you. What’s your
- name?’
She smiled her sweetest, and
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-1 er, replied: “It wouldn’t do you
' any good if I told you. You look
: like a nice boy, but my hus
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and very jealous.”
Just a Little Help
i “A most unusual request,”
■ commented the angel, “but you
’ shall have them.”
“And 10,000 alto singers and
10,000 tenors,’’ continued the
senator, in his customary, dic
. tatorial manner.
“Very, well, brother,” the an
• gel replied, “but —er —how
. about the bassos?’
“Never mind about them,”
: said the senator, with an impa
; tient wave of his hand, “I will
! sing bass.”
Afraid
i The accused had been duly
convicted when it was proved
on further evidence that he had
actually been in prison at the
time the act was committed.
Why didn’t you say so?’ de
manded the judge of the pris
oner.
“We 11 said the man appolo
getically. “I was afraid of pre
judicing the jury against me.”
Neck Too Short
Lodger Madam, this morn
ing when I bathed I found only
a nail brush in the bathroom I
can’t wash my back with a
nail brush.
Landlady—Well, you’ve a ton
gue in your ’ead ’aven’tyou?
Lodger—Yes, but I’m no
swan.
Step Toward Improvement
Mr. Dubb—“This party is
horribly dull. I think I’ll go
home.”
'Miss Sharp—“Oh, would you?
That would make a big differ
ence, I know.”
We. Too
We’re fed up on reading
about so many national ques
tions. What we want to konw
now is some of the answers.—
Atlanta Constitution.
NANCY By Ernie Bushmiller
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Although philately in Great
Britian is, in the main, con
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the club has attempted and
succeeded in introducing a cer
tain amount of democracy.—
Stamp Fair (England.)
Giddap!
i Two farmers met on the road
“Si, I’ve got a mule with dis
temper. What did you give that
one of yours when he had it?”
“Turpentine. Giddap.”
A week later they met again.
“Say, Si, I gave my mule tur
pentine and it killed him.”
“It killed mine too, Giddap.”
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1. —Which of the following lead the world in proved ofi reserves?
(a) Middle East, (b) Russia, (c) United States, (d) Canada.
2. —When the United Nations became two years old recently, how
many members belonged? (a) 35, (b) 45, (c) 55, (d) 65.
3. —When did Edward and William Pattison start the first tinware
manufacturing plant in America? (a) 1740, (b) 1780, (c) 1840, (d) 1880.
4. —Who recently said, “I have never heard of anyone committing
crime while out fishing?” (a) Herbert Hoover, (b) Calvin Coolidge,
(c) Edgar Hoover, (d) Edgar Allan Poe. ,
5. —What region leads in forest area? (a) southern states, (b) Pa
cific coast states, (c) northern states, (d) eastern states.
ANSWERS
1. (c) The United States leads with Middle East second.
2. (c) 55 members.
3. (a) 1740 at Berlin, Conn.
4. (a) Herbert Hoover.
5. (a) Southern States.