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3)«5t a |htp BY HELEN KING, ' 21 (First Award) CLOUD of blue smoke hung over the room. The place was de- serted except for a few stragglers leaning heavily against the bar taking a last drink, and the poor dishevelled figure of a boy, his arms flung out over a littered table. “Its a d—n shame,” said one of the stragglers, “Just look at that poor kid; the slick old cuss Mohoon cleaned him out.” The rest of them turned their bleary eyes on him. Come on, said another, “Let’s help”—at this juncture the doors swung open and the nightwatchman entered, followed by the “Investi¬ gation Committee, made up of the three most “Prominent Citizens.” The bar tender turned to polishing his glasses and those who were hanging over the bar made in a hasty swaying line for the door. The Committee sent an uninterested glance over the place; this was their last saloon and they were tired. But a spark of interest returned to the “Most Prominent Citizens’ ” eyes when they fell upon the boy. “Too bad,” he surily said, “One of the most brilliant and promising lawyers in the county.” Then having a great sense of duty he turned to the nightwatchman and said: “See that he gets home all right.” And the Second Most Prominent Citizen, who always follow the lead of the “Most Prominent Citizen,” thrust a ten dollar bill into the boy s hand. While the “Third Most Prominent Citizen,” who was young and had a sense of humor, seeing a skinny little pup snivelling and shivering against the wall, seized it and put it into the boy’s hand saying, “Here, this will keep you straight.” So with much help on the watchman’s part and many pauses to rest, the boy finally was conducted to his shack. Throwing him m an unceremonious heap in the middle of his cot and dropping the pup beside him, the night- watchman stalked out slamming the door behind him. Not many hours later the early morning sun pouring thru’ the uncurtained windows, beat unmercifully on the face of the sleeping boy. Wakened by its glare he sat up in a dazed, uncertain way. The room was flooded with light showing up to its full extent its painful shabbiness and litter. Jerry gazed about it from the rusty stove, littered table covered with bottles and dirty dishes, to the corner where his soiled clothing lay in a heap, and there curled up on top was the pup. “Where in the devil did you come from?” demanded Jerry. The pup hearing a voice, scrambled to his feet, stretched his lean 7
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body, and wagging his long rat tail he came over to the bed. I guess somebody thought you looked like you ought to belong to me,” he said with a grim laught. “But we’re going to show em. Throwing off his coat and rolling up his sleeves with an energy that caused the dog to eye him in amazement and then slink under the table, Jerry prepared a scanty breakfast and dividing it in equal portions he put one on the table and the other on the floor, saying: “You and me are going halves now, and if you stick by me you’ll be the first one that ever did.” The pup cocked one ear and looked hard at him with big brown eyes, as much as to say, “You can depend on me.” . Later on in the day he shut the pup in the cabin and slunk down to his office in the Court House, where he plunged into his ponderous law books with such a vim that he did not hear the scratching of the pup on the door, soon after he had closed it. So on leaving he almost fell over the pup huddled against the door. He scrambled to his feet and looked reproachfully at him, as tho’ he tho’t he’d treated H)s partner meanly. It touched Jerry to think he would wait so patiently, so after they came down together and the pup had his own special corner in the office. But day after day they received no trade and day after day Jerry grew thinner and shabbier while the pup grew bigger and glossier. For no matter how little Jerry had to eat he al¬ ways managed to find the pup something. Until the “Most Prominent Citizen,” with that grim sense of duty ever weighing on him, called a meeting of the “Investigation Committee,” where they decided to put Jerry up as a candidate for Town Clerk. That fall he was elected Town Clerk, and the next and the next and the next. For years he held that position. That is, he and the pup, for they were never sepa¬ rated. The pup had grown into a handsome dog, above the average in size and beauty. His coat was black and glossy and the ruff around his neck stood out startlingly white. Every year his picture apeared on the posters with the injunction, “Vote for the Pup’s Master.” If the water bills were due, or if it was registration time, a notice would appear in the paper saying, “The Pup says please pay your water bill,” or, “It’s time to Register.” Around on public lawns signs were posted, “Keep Off the Grass; Beware of the Pup! ” Thus they became known all over the county as “The Pup and His Master.” “The Most prominent Citizen” took on an “I told you so expression,” and the Second Most Prominent Citizen took on an “I told you so expres¬ sion. The Third Most Prominent Citizen, who was no longer young but still had a sense of humor said, “It’s all the pup’s work.” 8
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