Dogs and puppies . are going to be the fash-ionable dog, and that our day is over. For my 29 Dogs and Puppies part, I shall be glad, for I would much rather livein a stable than be shut in a hot, stuffy house, andhear nothing from morning until night, butDont do that, you naughty dog. I can stand all that, said Buster, but whatI hate is to be led by a short chain. As if dogs didnot like to run and chase cats now and then, justfor excitement, and not walk along at the heelsof some person. It certainly does take all the life out of one,said Peggy, and when I am shut in the houseand not allowed t
Dogs and puppies . are going to be the fash-ionable dog, and that our day is over. For my 29 Dogs and Puppies part, I shall be glad, for I would much rather livein a stable than be shut in a hot, stuffy house, andhear nothing from morning until night, butDont do that, you naughty dog. I can stand all that, said Buster, but whatI hate is to be led by a short chain. As if dogs didnot like to run and chase cats now and then, justfor excitement, and not walk along at the heelsof some person. It certainly does take all the life out of one,said Peggy, and when I am shut in the houseand not allowed to run for several days, I al-ways get dyspepsia. It is a wonder we dont all die, exclaimedBuster. One day we are given three meals, thenext they forget to give us more than one, andquite often they do not notice that our water ba-sin is empty. And though we tell them withsigns as plainly as with words, what we want,by running first to our basins, and then to thewater faucet, they will stupidly look at us andsay: 30. THE VALET COAXED HIS MASTER TO ENTER HIS DOG IN A DOC; SHOW. Dogs and Puppies What is it you want, that makes you followme so? Have you ever run away? asked Peggy. Yes, once, and I had the time of my life. Ihid and staid out all night, and they were wild,for they thought I had been stolen, or had wan-dered away in the strange city and been lost. Icould hear them calling, Buster, Buster, andwhistling until they were out of breath, and Iwas almost afraid to move for fear they wouldhear me and make me go in. All the time I wasunder the front porch of the house. I waited untilit was quite dark, and then I ran out and downan alley. I never went near the fashionable partsof the city, but kept to the alleys and poor quar-ters, for I wanted to see how the people and dogslived in these parts. Well, I can tell you, I saw enough that nightto last me all my life, for everything was new tome. I had never been out of the aristocratic resi-dence district of the city, and I had nev
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