Hezekiah Butterworth.
(
Of the committee of readers of the prize stories offered to the Humane Society
.)
Boston, Mass
., Dec., 1893.
[Chapter I Only a Cur]
My name is Beautiful Joe, and I am a brown dog of medium size. I am not called Beautiful Joe because I am a beauty. Mr. Morris, the clergyman, in whose family I have lived for the last twelve years, says that he thinks I must be called Beautiful Joe for the same reason that his grandfather, down South, called a very ugly colored slave-lad Cupid, and his mother Venus.