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THE DAILY SHORT STORY,

OL Moe's

NATE'S

DOG

LD Nate tied the leash rope on to return to the valley. His father collar. The brown and wouldn't left him. And Earl loved the white fox hound walked wearily into valley. the barn and flopped down on his straw pallet. Old Nate watched him proud- His father had plenty of money. Were Bitterness grew in the boy's heart.

ly.

all fathers stubborn like his? They "Ain't a better hound in the state. couldn't be because the colleges were Ain't a dog with a better nose or a full. sweeter sounding voice. There ain't a dog with Moe's manners and intelli- gence. I tell you there won't be an- other like him ever."

Suddenly from the corner of his eye Earl caught a flickering glow of light against the sky. He thought at first it was the sun, then he knew that the Earl Helebrant, Nate's nineteen- sun had set. His blood froze in his year-old son, said: "You're right, dad. veins. He leaped to his feet and start-

ed tearing back along the path. Moe's got everything."

"Everything! Whoops, boy, he's Fire! Either the house or the barn Old worth a thousand in cold cash, but I was afire. He remembered how wouldn't sell him for ten times that Nate had heaved the match aside with which he had been lighting his pipe. amount. I love that dog."

"Seems like sometimes you think It must be the barn, he decided. more of your hounds.than you do your own, kin."

Half a dozen men had already forin- ed a bucket brigade from the creek to Old Nate had been stuffing cut plug the barn when Earl arrived. The barn into a corncob pipe. He stopped, look- itself was an inferno. Earl seized

To his ing up and sideways at the boy. "Still bucket, then stopped dead. thinkin' about going to state college, ears had come the terrified yelping 01 eh? Still feelin' abused because your a dog. An instant later he saw it.. old man won't let yuh, eh?"

Moe, straining at his leash. The hound "A man doesn't have much chance had advanced into the open as far as on its trolley wire without a college education these days, the hemp leash dad."

would permit, was cowering behind an "No?" Old Nate ripped a match overturned barrel, its fur being scorch-

By Richard Hill Wilkinson

yelps came from

its'

along the seat of his pants, hold the ed. Terrified flame to his pipe, puffed, threw the throat.

Then Earl saw something else. · He match aside with an angry gesture. ***** After they had walked away from the saw his mother and Bill Harris carry- And barn, he said: "Listen here, son, your thg Old Nate into the house. old man's a fox hound breeder. He's Earl knew that Old Nate had rushed the best in the state. He's made in to try and save the dog and had He knew that the money at it. You're going to inherit been overcome. the business some day, You're my heat was too great for anyone to get He only offspring, an' it'll be all yours." in close enough to release, Moe,

- knew that Moe's death, more than any- father's Earl made as though to protest, but thing else, would break his

"Nemmine heart. Old Nate stopped him.

raise telling me you don't want to

Earl went into the house and took hounds. You'll git over that. Be glad down the squirrel gun from above the enough to own a paying business, fireplace. His mother said: "Hurry, Son, seems like sometimes you ain't Earl, put Moe out of his misery. He's got no sense. Does college teacha being roasted aliye.” man how to raise good hounds? No. Earl went out and got as near to How to train am1 No. Does it. teach the barn as he could. Then he lifted a man how to shoot a squirrel gun? the squirrel rifle, remembering that No. Why, doggone it, son, you can't. hit the side of a barn door, Leastwise his father said he couldn't shoot. He An swung the sights until a slanting thin you never showed you could. shoot-in' is important, my boy. A line was in their center. Then he pull- With a yelp Moe, the served hemp danged sight more important when cd the trigger. you're a fox hound breeder than college diploma."

a leash trailing behind him, went tear-

ing toward the creek...

Old Nate swallowed hard. "Son, I-

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a

In spite of himself Old Nate had failed to keep a quality of contempt reckon a man with an eye like yours out of his voice.And now, without is doggone near deserving of anything another word, he turned, fearful for he wants, least among em being what he might say if he remained, and college education.”.

(Released By The Associated News- trudged, up, toward, the house, Earl was his only son and he loved him. He papers. didn't understand him. He didn't un- derstand him at all. He wished the youngster would hurry up and out- grow his childish ideas,

Asthma Cause

In

Earl, watching his father trudged Killed in 24 Hours

away, alghed heavily. What his father had said was an old, old story. He had heard it so many times. He guessed, after all, he'd have to give up trying to convince his father that he needed a college education. He guess. od he'd have to figure some other way.ja Earl followed the path beneath the maples and, oaks until he came to the big rock ov oking, the valley. Ho out, His long legs, sat down, It was very till hero. Dawn in the

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