Franklin Opp and Freckles
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Fate Of Dog Hangs In The Balance
Until A Marine Comes To The Rescue
By Miriam J. Angell
Interview—The lady, The Dog, and
the U. S. Marines.
Cast of Characters: Joseph Stan
ton; Hyacinth, his wife; Master
Sergeant Albert Garcia; Chief of
Police Roland Vickery; an un
known, lonely Marine (God bless
his heart in the doghouse); PFC
Franklin Opp; Staff Sergeant
Charles Buie; a dog.
On the Kodiak Naval Station one
cold blown night not long ago Jo
seph and Hyacinth Stanton bedded
8— ■'
down their brood of five little Stan
tons and took a walk around the
officers’ quarters area. Along the
way they were joined by a shaggy
white mongrel pup whose rusty
markings gave him the look of out
sized spectacles, and a splash of
freckles across his wistful face.
Moreover, there was the appeal un
iversal, an ingratiating wiggle in
the waggly tail, and a shyness one
always knows is born of misuse, if
not downright abuse.
With some coaxing from the lady
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he came to her side, allowed her
to stroke his head, closed his eyes
and smiled benignly, and purred.
The lady was hooked, as we say of
hearts lost to little dogs lost. Not
so her husband whose heart is kind,
but a kind heart remembering the
broken hearts of his older sons
who lost their dog last summer be
cause he chased men who walked
past their home at night, finally
bit a child who teased him.
Joe Stanton was not pleased
that this waif of a wagger followed
him home and flopped down for
the night on the Stanton doorstep;
Hy Stanton had already named
the dog Specs, and not a husband
in this world would not have read
the signs.
LCDR and Mrs. Stanton went to
bed, the husband adamant, his wife
unhappy. Next morning Specs still
lay at the door, shivering; once
their father had gone to work, the
Stanton children were allowed to
bring him in for warmth and food
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and overwhelming kindness. Specs
grinned and bore it, and even sat
upon the sofa when no one was
near; this was clearly heaven and
who was he not to please his bene
factors.
It was another story at five
o’clock; that is the witching hour
in large families, and as Specs un
derstood, with uncanny sense, the
hour that fathers come home and
boot out stray dogs. The orders
were unmistakable and clear: no
one by the name of Stanton was to
feed the dog, and no one must let
him into the house again. Specs
stayed by the door, hopefully, and
if he whimpered now and then,
who could hear? Mrs. Stanton has
hearing especially attuned to small
children and stray dogs; much
later, when her husband snored
she conspiritorially opened the
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