FOR THE CHILDREN.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14476, 24 June 1911, Page 2 (Supplement)

FOR THE CHILDREN.

ALEXANDER AND THE MAN-WXTH-THE-SACS.

(By Phoebe Troiawny Irving.)

Alexander was in disgrace again. It was really too bad of the wicked fairies —they just loved to make him do tho moat, wicked tilings, and then rail away and left poor Alexander to get tho whipping.

Thoy had simply forced the -poor .little yellow pup to eat liis master's new shoe. He didn't want to eat it at all 1 . In fact, Alexander chewed up tlho shoo quite against his will, for the bladdng did not tast'o nearly as nioe 63 thd c-hopa master should hare had for his dinner. But the wicked fairies made him oat tlie shoe, and now 3a* was tied by a short' rope to the area railings, and oook kept coming and jeering at him. .She wasn't at ali nice-, cook; but perhaps she oouMn't understand how sore and sorry poor Alexander felt. He tried to turn a deaf ear to her cruel remarks, and stared with great interest up, jind up, and ujrf to where he oould , rust see the people passing in tlvo street. Cook had gono into the kitchen and fallen asleep with an empty jug beside her, when the Man-with-the-Sack cam© down the area steps. He chirped to Alexander, and Alexander, being of a kind and friendly nature, wagged his long tail and euuled as well as a little uog can. The Man-w ith-the-S aok chirped again, and called Alexander a "clever iectle daw#." But his watery eye was cc. thp kitchen windoW, and Alexander began to think, and tho more lie thought the slower ho wagged his tail. Iftit when the Man-with-the-Saok pushed open tho door and stole into tho -house. Alexander's tail quite oeaoed wagging, and he tugged a? his rope while he yapped his loudest puppy yap. Hut cook, sound 1 asleep over the kitchen ilre, was deaf to Alexander's warning, and ths Man-wftjh-the-Sack stole about quite quietly, for ho was Anxious not to disturb her. And in the area Alexander barked and tugged, and choked. But no one bothered except the Man-next-Door, and he only stuck his Jieod out otf the window and told liim to "Shut up." Alexandor peered up at him. and whined piteously for help, but the Man* next-Door had boon asleep, and was crass. VI lien he went away Alexander grew desperate. And then tho Man-with-the-baek stole out into the area. " Lay down good dawg," he said, in n whisper, .his eye turned up to th* f. r '" et - Il& gavo Alexander a JcrJc. With a yelp of pam and fury Alexander sprang, and, unluckily ft£> the -Man-mtli-tho-Sack, the ropj m* just long enough. Alexander's poor littfo yellow body ™, mto by tbo time tlb» Man. next-Door had cWovered oomotMng dog hung f" ~ . Y lO thief a kg amd w<m jg Ji.udly let go even whan tbo policwwui

That m e lit Aloxnndter sat on tb» mat in fiont of the study flr® while W« inaster drew ],i 3 yd ji?ad" SerS U Hs rouXSttle AlJn novi-r. CaS!,nt , to > w * !ra 'tell tlio doel e\ Sfa* a Sl ? l<!ndW >k no \i.is. And ic was kind of hit S ™m/° the chewod-un We'd wliippinc that had fol Tho new cook loves Alexander.