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A Very Clever Canine

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Parent Issue
Day
30
Month
October
Year
1890
Copyright
Public Domain
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Gyp is visiting Oniaha. Haven't seen lier? Don't know Gyp? Nonsense! She may be noticed any day walking np and down Farnam street. She wears a red satín coat buttoned very lightly around lier throat and a toque to match it sets jauntily on her head. The toque is trimmed with featliers and flowers and a flaxnn bang peeps from beneath its rim. Gyp has very pretty brown eyes and tliey gaze thiough glasses that are perched upon her little nose. Gyp's deportment is very proper except in one respect. She looks straight ahead througli her glasses and walks with dignity, and when people rnake remarks about her - as they generally do - Bhe does not pay any attention to them. She just holds her cigarette firinly in her teeth and assuines an indifferent air. For Gyp smokes when she appears upon the street - that is the only breaoli in her otherwise faultless demeanor. But then Gyp is only a dog - a little brown spaniel : the wisest, brightest little spaniel imaginable. Gyp is a dog with a career. She is an artiste in her way, and, as eveij one knows, artistes often indulge in cigarettes. Only smoking is regarded by Gyp in the liglit of an accomplishment, whioh makes lier valuable in her professional line. HER LINE AND OET UP. And what is Gyp's professional line? Advertising - that is what occupies all her working hours. There are big white letters on her red satin coat, and the letters teil people where to buy certain things. Of course Gyp attracts more attention than a dozen newspapers, and every one who sees the little brown dog trotting along the thoroughfares with her flaxen bangs sewed securely into her red eatin toque, her glasses ad j usted on her nose and her cigarette in her inouth, ia sure to read the white letters. Gyp has been in the advertising business a year. She would never have thought of entering such a public life if the idea had not been 6Uggested to her by the black-eyed boy who is her master. They did a great niany tricks together, and when Gyp learned to smoke a cigar dealer back in Cleveland offered to engage her services. The dealer offered $10 a week, and Gyp and her master signed a contract, and her first engagement was speedily begun, the boy acting as Gyp's manager. It was a success, and Gyp appeared here in Omaha at the end of her season. She wore a blue costume then, and the white letters on her coat, or "habit," as her young manager calis it, exhibited the virtues of a certain brand of cigars. Gyp is sometimes disappointed in the weather, but she is very particular about fulfilling her contract, which calis for sil hours' walking every day - three hours in the morning and three in the afternoon. She confines her promenades to the principal streets, and she is oftentimes annoyed by the crowds which gather around her. But being very demure and self possessed Bhe refuses to linger where she can overhear the remarks of passers by. Once or twice she has been mortified by brusque commands to "move on" from policemen who did not appear to recognize genius - even when it Wtm so well defWed as in Gyp'a case. she's o.e ar the 400. Gyp is naturally haughty. She is very proud of her satín habt and with true feminine patience bears all the discomforts of fine attire without a single whine of impatience. Oftentimes the wind blows her coat about her feet and her flaxen bangs slip over her eyes. Besides her glasses pinch her nose and she becomes very tired of the cigarette. Yet all artistes who appear in public and calmly accept the homage of the multitude suffer more or less, and why should a dog be exempt from any of the drawbacks that beset an actor's career? Gyp does not notice other Uogs and absolutely refuses to make their acquaintance. JVs a rule, her showy costume arnazes them and they stand and look at her afar off, now and then expressing their canine astonitshnient in low, deep growls. lky, Omahas Bohemian dog - Iky, who has associated witli lawyera until his assurance is the despair of every well behaved dog in the town - tried to join Gyp in her daily promenade; but, although Iky had copied uiany of the inanners and muoh of the address of certain lawyers in the Sheely and Paxton blocks, Iky was ignoniiniously snubbed. Moreover, Uyp can talk. When she was asked about Oinaha she expressed the utmost confidence in ita future by removing her toque and barking half a dozen times in the most enthusiastic luanner. She had no definite opinión about the school bonds, but appeared to have rather melancholy recollections of lier own education. She was quite voluble when Dr. Miller's name was mentioned. Dr. Jillrr had spoken to Gyp on the Street and said he thought it was a shame for a poor dog to be compelled to wear glasses and smoke cigarettes all day long. But Gyp only sat up with her fore feet crossed in a very graceful manner, looked at hini kindly through her spectacles, and then moved

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