The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1855-08-04
Harry Sampson obtains Revenge,

for a housekeeper. Snarl lives in good style,
but has some queer notions. He dislikes
dogs above all things, organ grinders and
beggars not excepted. .
Snarls next door neighbor is Harry Samp.
son. Now Harry is the very opposite Of old
Mr.. Snarl. He sets a high value on dog,
and thinks there is only one article equal to
d Newioundlander and that's woman. Har-
ry has several specimens of the canine race.
The other evening they got up bowling
match because the moon was eclipsed They
commenced about ten o'clock, and kept it
up till the sun got an inch and a half above
Williamsburg.
This so annoyed Mr.. Snarl that he had
Harry jerked up =" for nuisance" and fined
Rl0. Harry paid the money, but resolved
on revenge. The next morning the following
advertisement appeared i'll the Herald:
wANTED-At Forsyth street, tw o B ull Dogs and
four Spaniel pups. For ll-booded Dogs the
highest price will be paid Call between and
PM. JAMES SNARL.
We need not say that the advertisement
was inserted by Harry. His reason for ma
king the calls between and P. M. was,
because Mr.. Snarl was always out at that
hour taking an airing around the Battery.
At the hour specified, dogs and pups might
have been seen going up the Bowery to Grand,
to Forsyth, and up Forsyth to the mansion
occupied by Mr.. Snarl. ....
The first person that pulled the door-bell
was a butcher boy from Center Market, with
pair of bulldogs that would tear h out
of tiger" Maggie answered the bell, when
the following colloquy took place;
Does MIR. Snarl live here q
He does. Why do you ax?'
Give got some dogs for him."
J for of
| did you ever? you've mistook the door,"
"Divil bit of tread that"
Hele Syksie took out the Morning Herald,
and showed Maggie the advertisement. Mag
! gle was thunderstruck, still there was mo
denying the advertisements She according
ly told Syksie to 60 in the back yard " wild
the dogs" and await the return of Mr.. Snarl
Syksie did so. In about two minutes Mag
gle was again summoned by the door-bell.
"What do you want Z"
"Mr Snarl I've got them dogs he wanted"
"You have; well then go into the yard
wild the other blackguard.'
! No. 2 followed No. No. 2 was follow.
/ ed by No. 3, who was succeeded by lots 5, 6
and 7. By half-past five the back yard con-
tanned 81 bulldogs and Ia spaniels. The
! former got up misunderstanding, and by
the time Mr.. Snarl arrived, 7 spanieIs had
been placed horS du combat while brindle
bulldog from Fulton Market was going
through his third fight with ga yaller terrier"
! from Nott-street.
Mr. Snarl reached home a few minutes
before six Maggie opened the door, and
burst out as follows:
For the love of the Lord 60 back and
stop 'em. They are ateing one another up,
and if not choked off will devour the cestern.
Since the days of Crummell, I've not seen
such hullabaloo intirely."
Snarl went back'-Snarl looked into the
yard and would have sworn, but he could
not find oaths sufficiently powerful to do
justice to his feelings. When we left, MIR.
Snarl was emptying " the back yard" with
an axhelve. The next morning Harry Samp-
son complained of him for having dog
! fight on his premises. Snarl was fined 1926,