Our Women and Children
Conducted by Lucille Skaggs Edwards.
PUPPY POUNCE.
How He Made His Little Friends
Happy.
The door flew open (Billy had for
gotten to latch it) and something soft
and black and silky dashed across
the room and into Cicely’s lap. In a
second more it was off with her arith
metic book held fast between two
rows of sharp white teeth.
Then this little bit of fur and frol
icsomeness, spying Billy’s necktie,
dropped the first prize and made for
the two bright dangling ends. But
before anyone could even think of
saying Jack Robinson, the lively little
visitor had left Billy and was kissing
Baby Dumpkins’ chubby cheeks with
a funny soft pink tongue.
No wonder the Dollivers were too
much surprised to do anything but
stare at the newcomer.
Oddly enough, Dumpkins, who still
found talking in long sentences hard
work, was the first to speak.
“Puppy pounce,” said the baby, very
slowly and distinctly.
And Puppy Pounce he became to
the Dolliver family from that very
minute. And how he did pounce! One
minute it V'».s at mother’s apron
strings; the next, at Billy’s shoe lac
ings and a second later there was a
tug at Cicely’s buttons. Then after
a wild whisking and scampering
around the room, he wound Billy s
ball under the sofa and with a great
deal of wagging of a stubby tail and
much shaking of a pair of silky ears,
he coaxed each Dolliver to have a
game.
"Oh, please, mother, may we keep
him?” Cicely begged.
“Oh, do say yes,” Billy entreated.
"Puppy Pounce stay,” added Dump
kins.
"But he must belong to somebody,”
mother reminded them. Yet Puppy
Pounce seemed to belong to the Dol
liver children as much as to anyone,
for although the town was searched
no owner was found.
"But how can we have a dog?” Mrs.
Dolliver objected. "It seems to me
we are a pretty busy family without
taking in a frisky puppy.”
“But, mother, if you’ll only let him
stay,” Billy coaxed, "we’ll help ever
so much more than we do now. I’ll
try to remember to put my things
away and shut the doors and-’’
“And I’ll study my arithmetic with
out being reminded," Cicely put in.
“And Dumpkins will stay inside the
gate when mother says so, won’t you,
Dumpkins?” Billy added.
“Stay inside the gate," said Dump
kins.
"A puppy is a good deal of trouble,”
mother began.
"Oh, we’ll take all the care of Pup
py Pounce,” the three chimed.
Puppy Pounce had been lying fast
asleep in Cicely’s lap during this con
versation, but at the mention of his
name he jumped down and went
straight to Mrs. Dolliver. He drew
himself up on his hind legs, his two
forepaws crooked, and looked up at
her with pleading eyes.
"Well," agreed mother, "he’s a nice
puppy, and we’ll see."
Puppy Pounce was quite the pride
of the whole family, he learned tricks
so readily and was always ready to
show off. He shook hands, played
ball and hide and seek and danced on
his hind lees. You can imagine what
a merry playmate this silky little
black puppy was.
"What would we ever do if Puppy
Pounce’s owner should come back,”
Cicely exclaimed one night as they
were putting him to bed in his bas
ket.
It was the very next day, when the
four were out for a walk, or rather a
run, for Puppy Pounce didn’t like to
walk, that something happened. The
children were used to seeing their
puppy make sudden dives and
pounces, but seldom had they seen
him dash so wildly as he did this time
straight into the arms of a little girl
who was sitting in an automobile
drawn up by the curbing.
“It is my own dear lost puppy,” she
cried to the gentleman who was get
ting into the car. And to the little
bundle of fur in her lap she went on:
“Where have you been this long, long
time?” Then she caught a glimpse
of the three children. Billy was try
ing very hard not to forget he was a
boy: Cicely was blinking away the
tears in her eyes and, Baby Dumpkins
sobbed: “I want Puppy Pounce.”
Hearing his name, Puppy Pounce
jumped out of the car and began to
tug at the Dollivers’ jackets at the
same time looking at the little girl in
the automobile.
"He wants to introduce us,” she
called, and smiled so pleasantly that
the children drew nearer.
"I know it must have been you who
have taken care of my puppy.”
The Dollivers nodded, but nobody
felt much like talking.
The girl continued: “My father and
I were traveling and puppy was tied
in the baggage car. He slipped out of
his collar and got off the train some
where, but we had no idea where. I
thank you, oh, so much for being kind
to my dog.”
Dumpkins, who had stopped crying,
began to wail again.
“Now, don’t you think this is a nice
plan,” suggested the little girl’s fa
ther. “We’re just starting on another
long journey tomorrow. You see, my
little daughter and I travel a great
deal. But the puppy evidently doesn’t
like to travel and anybody can see
that he does like to live with you.”
Then turning to the little girl, he
questioned: “What do you say, Mar
garet, to asking these young people if
they won’t look after the pet a while
longer?”
“It is a nice plan,” Margaret an
swered, a little regretfully, and she
put Puppy Pounce into Dumpkins’
arms.
Then ihe Dollivers, all smiles, to
gether with Puppy Pounce, friskier
than ever, were bundled into the car
and driven home. And that was how
it happined that Puppy Pounce kept
on living with the Dolliver? When
Margaret and her father, who lived
in a near-by town, were at home from
their journeys, they came often to see
the children and Puppy Pounce, and
many a time they were all whisked off
in the big car for a day’s fun. And
so they became the best of friends.
“To think,” they would often say,
“if it hadn’t been for our Puppy
Pounce, we never would have
known one another.”—Rebecca Dem
ing Moore in Woman’s W'orld.
“Pa, a man’s wife is his better half,
isn’t she?”
“We are told so, my son.”
“Then if a man marries twice there
isn’t anything left of him, is there?”
—Boston Transcript.
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