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Parent Issue
Day
16
Month
July
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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Aun Arbor might have a "mad dog" scare, but a crowd of girls in the vicinity oí the Normal College the other night got a raving maniac canine fright. "Leo," Justice Chiids' paelng wonder, was being taken out for an evening's airing. There are three thing.s tiiat Leo has a weakness for- raw beef steak, a thrown ball atid cats- either one of which he will go for like a llystic Shriner for a "seilzer and" the morning af ter.. Jnst as he got in the vicinity of a house i:i fronl of whieh were sitting a crowd of unsuspectittg girls, a eat started io skate across the road ín direction of thtí house. Leo got bis eye on her like a league batsman with an exploded lilieaom. As the cat went, so wem the ponderous aceiur.ulaticn of dog flesh. Straight as a bee-line went the cat for the house, and Leo was keep Dg well up with the rear tire of hls pace-maker. One gh-1 suddenly saw the approaching animal. She let a "mad dog" scream out of her ind the way the crowd tumbled into the house would make one naturally thiuk they bad seen a rat. The screen door was nearly taken off its hinges. In the meantirne the cat had got safely porehed up on a limb of a tree in front of the house, whileLeo was giving an exhibition of high jumping beneath. And the pacing wonder wondered why h was not built so as to climb a tiee.

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Ann Arbor Democrat