Eighth

To the London Daily News, a subscriber wrote as follows: "I can claim in this example of the repetition of 'that, that that that that that that that I have underlined immediately precedes, is the eighth."

Dog

In Philadelphia, a boy and a dog played together. The name of the one was Dick McDevitt (six years old)*; the name of the other was Ruff (an Airedale). While they did not actually talk to each other, they had found that by pats, grimaces and tender looks, they could communicate better than much older people. In the daytime the great crinkly dog padded by the side of the boy, whose head barely reached his shoulder; at night he curled at the foot of the boy's bed. Nothing could ever separate them, they thought -but something did. It was an automobile. It struck Ruff while he was crossing the road, and after that the Airedale lay quite still and never again pawed with his leg or sniffed with his nose. Dick McDevitt did not understand what people meant when they said the dog was dead. Dead! A stupid word; but he repeated it to himself until it seemed to take on a meaning. His father /- dug a hole in the ground, and asked Dick McDevitt if there was anything he wanted to say before they put Ruff in it, for it was the last time he would ever see his friend. "He was a good dog," said Dick McDevitt in a clear voice, "but he is a dead dog now.'

* Four-year-old Henry McDevitt also romped with the dog.

/- Judge Harry S. McDevitt, who is pre siding at the trial of David L. Marshall, charged with killing Anna May Dietrich and dismembering her body.