The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-12-26
OBTAINING REVENGE.

~ OBTAINING. fREVENGE.f,...- :
Mr.. snafl resides in Forsytbe street.
Mr.. Snarl is an old bachelor, with au
Irish girl fer housekeeper. Snarl
lives in good style, but has some queer
notions. He dislikes dogs above all
things, organ grinders and beggars not
excepted. !; fs. - ,sgs. 80 5.r5l s.
Snarls next door neighbor is Harry
sampson 7 Now, Harry is the very oppo-
site fooId Mr.. Snarl. He sets a high vail
ne on a dog, and there is only one article
equal to % Newfoundland, and that's a
woman Harry has several specimens
of the Mnine race. The other evening
they got up bowling match because the
moon became eclipsed. They com
mepeed about ten-oselock, and kept it
1t up until the sun got an inch and half
above Wil:iamsburgh. bgE7l
This SO annoyed Mr., Snarl, that be
had Harry jerked up " for a nuisance,
and fined ten dollars. Harry paid the
money but resolved on revenge. The
next morning the following advertise
mept appeared IN the Herald = - =
WANTED-At Forsythe street, two
Bull dogs. and four Spanish pups For
full biooded dogs the highest prics will
Be paid sealf between four and SIX
P. NJ. go sss.1 - JAMES SNARL.
We need not say the advertisement
was ipserted by Harry. His sreasons for
making the calls between four-and six
P. NJ. was, because Mr. Snarl was al
ways out at that hour taking an airing
around the Battery.
At tthc hour specified, dogs and pups
mighthave been seen going up the Bow
cry to Grand, to Forsythe, and up For
sythe to the mansion occupied BY Mr..
,Snarl. a.aes s6 "a s.f-
The first person that pulled the door
beiltwas aEbutcher boy from Centre Mar
ket, with pair of bull dogs that would
( Z. tear the heart out of tiger" Maggie
answered the bel, when the following
colloquy took place 81 sssee
" Does Mr.. Snarl live here ?f
I" He does. Why do you ak ?''
/" I have got some dogs for him."
dogs for Mr.. Snarl--mother of Moses
did you evert you mistook the door,"
"Devil bit-read that. n5stzi .sss5
Here Syksee took out the Morning
Herald and showed Maggie the ad
vertisement. Maggie was thunder
struck. There was no-denying the ad-
vertisement. She accordingly told Syk-
see to go into the back yard /" wild the
dogs" and await the return of Mr.. Snarl
Syksee did so.
In about two minutes. Maggie was
again summoned to the door bell.
I" What do you want f'
Mr.. .Snarl I've brought them dogs
be wanted"
You have !? Well then, go into the
yard wild the other blackguard." J"
No. 2 followed No. 4; No. 2 was soon
by No. 8, who was succeeded
by lots 4, and g. By half past five,
the back yard contained twenty-one bull
logs and fourteen spaniels. The for
ner got up misunderstanding, and, by
the time Mr.. Snarl arrived, seven SPAN
els had been placed hors das combat,
while a brindle bull dog from Fulton
Market was going through his third
light with a yaller terrier . from
Mount street.
Mr.. Snarl reached home q few min
,tes before six Maggie opened the
ioor and burst out as follows:
''For the lore of the Lord, go back and
stop 'em. They're eating one another
np, and ifnot choked off will devour the
,istern. Since the days of Crumme1l,
I've not heard such hullabaloo en-
tirely.' = $50
Snarl /" went back "-Snarl looked in
10 the yard and would have sworn, but
be could not find oaths sufficiently pow
srful to do justice to his feelings. When
We left, Mr.. Snarl was emptying the |
back yard with an axe helve.
The next day Harry Sampson com
planned of him for having "dog fight
On his premises Snarl was fined twen-
ty-fve dollars-ffteen dollars for being I
an old hypocrite. /" It is necessary
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for us to say, that Harry Sampson slept |
better that night than any night since
the war. with Mexico.-Neao York
Dutchnsan. .ese
MISPLACED CoNFIpENcE.-Little boys |
when they come too late to school, have
10 bring written excuse explaining the |
cause of their tardiness. Some days
since an urchin in city school came
extremely late, but without the least