Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1856-11-07


response Of the dog merchant.
Glow much do you ask for THAT dog?'
-quoth the sportsman,
Well,' says the trader, $patting lis
dog, [ thoUghtof getting about seventy
FIVE dollars for him, but t.
Stop interrupted the country sports
man, that's euough-he won't suit, no
how; I can't go them figures on dogs
The man and dog left growing; and the
next man and dog were brought up.
Why, that's a queer dog. mister, aint
it 2 "Taiu't got no b air on il; why, where
in blazes did you raise such, a dog as that;
been scalded, hain'tit2' says the rural
sportsman, examining the critter.
Seaided 2 echoed the dog man, look
ing noways amiable at the speaker. why
didn't you never see a Chinese terrier.
afore @
No. andsif that's one. II don't care
about seeing another. Why, he looks
like q sipged possum +
Well, you're apooty looking country
jake, you are, to advertise for dod, and
don't know a Ghiney terrier from a asinged
possum y Z
Another rap at the door announced
more dogs, and as he man opened 1t to
get out with his singed possum, a genius
who evidently killed for :Keyser, l. rushed
in with q pair of the ugliest looking. sa>
wage. snub>nosed, Slaughter house pups,
the fancy might ever hope to look uponl
AS these meat.axish CANNES made a rush
at the very boot tops Of The country
sportsman, he' SHED Of. pretty perceb-
tibly. 5
Are you de man advertised for dc
dogs, safa-y? You needen't be afraid O.
dem come a'here, lay da.own. BaIty-
days de dogs, mister, vos you read Off
Amt they rather fierce Q asked the
rural sportsman, ewing the ugly brutss.
Fierce? Better believe dey are
show 'em f,f>ighs, if you want to see
'em go in for de chances You want to
see der teeth %
No. guess not timidly responded
the sportsman; they are not exactly what.
[ want ne continued.
What says Jakey. don't want 'em?
Why. look a'here, you don't go for to say
dat you 'spect Pm again for to fetch
d-dogs clean down here. for nuthin', do
you. sa.a~ay Cos if you do, I'll iis drop
off my duds and lam ye out O. yer bootsH
Jakey was Just beginning to square,
when his belligerent propositions were
suddenly nipped in the bud. by the ser.
want opening the door and ushering in
more dogs; and no sooner did Jakey's
pups see the new comers, than they went
ins fight ensued-both of Jakey's pups
lighting down on an able. bodied. big bone
sorrel dog, who appeared perfectly hap
py in the transaction. and having tre-
mendous jaw of his own. made the bones
of the pups crack with the high pressure
Ae gave them. OF course dog ti$ht is
the cue for man fight, and in the way of
a dead lambs tail, Jakey and the propri-
etor ofthe sorrel dog had dispute. Jas
key was attitudfnizing Ia, the fancy
when the sorrel dog man-who, like his
dog, was gotup on a liberal scale of
strength and ropoftions-waIked right
into Jakey's calculations, and whirled him
in double fip-faps on TO the washstand
of the rural sportsman sroom Our sport:
ing friend viewed the various combatants
more in bodily fear than otherwise, and
was making break for the door, to clear
himself;,wh to his horror aud amaze
mens. he found the entry beset by suudry
men and boys. and any quantity Of dogs
dogs of every hue, size. and descrip.
tiou. AT that moment the chawed- up
pups of Jakey, and their equally used-up
master, came a arushing down stairs-an-
other fight ensued on the stairs between
Jakey dogs and some others, and then
a stampede of dogs linking up of dogs
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