Dil Ke Sell the Dog ?

Otago Witness, Issue 2289, 13 January 1898, Page 52

Dil Ke Sell the Dog ?

They had not been on particularly good terms since the man in the corner house bought the dog. The man who lived next door didn't think much of dogs anyway — especially city dogs — and he had not hesitated to say as much on two or three occasions. Consequently, when he called and suggested to the man in the corner house that he would like to buy the dog it occasioned considerable surprise. " But I thought you didn't like doga ? " Baid the man iv the corner house.

" I don't-," admitted the man who lived nexfe door.

" And that you considered city dogs a little bit worse than any other kind ? " persisted the man in the corner htuse.

" Quite right," returned the man who lived next door.

"And that in the line of city dogs you regarded this one of mine as just a little the worst that ever came under your notice ? "

"Right again. I don't mind saying, now that you call my attention to it, that your dog is the meaneet, ugliest, yelping cue that ever kept a neighbourhoed awake at night. That's why I want to buy him from you."

"Wall, I won't sell," answered the man in the corner bouse decidedly. " I know you now for just the kind of a maa you are, and I have too much regard for the dog. Even if I didn't care anything for him I wouldn't humiliate him by compelling him to acknowledge such » man, as you for a master. I wouldn't be as cruel as that to any dog."

"As you please," said the man who lived next door. " I thought it no more than fair to make the offer to you first." "To me first?" 11 Certainly. I'd just as soon pny you as pay anyone else, and I sort of felt that you were entitled to the first chance. However, nay con« v science in clew now. and to-morrow I shall let

the report circulate among tbe boys of the ■neighbourhood that I am willing to pay a reasonable price for that do£, and that ib doesn't make any difference whether he is delivered alive or dead. Of course, it will be easier to deliver him dead, and it's likely "

" Do you mean to say that you will make an effer for my dog ? " " I have already done so, but you said you didn't want to cell. However, lam qaite willitig to give you a little lime to think it over "We'll Ist the matter rest until to-morrow. Of course, you understand it's perfectly immaterial to me whether I buy the dog from jou or from one of the boys or from some passing tramp who temporarily acquires possession."

Taik about the problem of the lady or the tiger ! It's nothing compared to the probk-ms that confront many of us in the everyday affairs of life. Did he sell the dog ?— Chicago Post.