Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1856-11-15
The Faithful Dog.
A STORY OF DARING BURGLARY
BY USriT TOBY.


'ity of their store against fire and othe
causaities, they employed one Of tIlei
clerks to sleep in it at night. The ide
of the store being attacked by robber
was not for moment entertained, but
was for other objeess, such as securit
from fire, and the like. that young Lor-
ing, the celk, slept there, for he was no
supplied with any weapons to repei a,
attack of thieves. But one dark, drear'
night, he was awakened by singua
NOISE which resembIed that which a par
ty of burglars might produce i'll an at
tempt to enter the building. and, look
ing towards the back windows, he soor
satisfied himself that one or more per
sons were endeavoring to enter as quiet
'y as possible, at that quarter. They
had already removed part of the sast
and shutters with their cunningIy devils
ed instruments, and must have been al
work some time before he was awakened
Now Young Loring regretted that he
had no weapons, but not through fear
that was not characteristic of the Young
gentleman, but that he might pepper
the rogues little At first he deter
mined to cry out and arouse the watch
but as they bad advanced SO far before
he was awake. he thought he would
drive them away by stratagem! lie
slipped on his clothes quietly, and APP
preaching the spot where the thieves
were b, sv. he saw the hand Of one oi
them passed inside the shutter into the
store, in lis owners endeayor to guide a
small handsaw with which he WAS cut
ting an aperture for his body to pass
tAro tgh.
Young Loring felt inclined to chop off
TIE hand with la ciiet that lay hard
by, bat Ire refrained, and hethonght him.
self OF powerful eau>tlc vi,roi and
other penetrating Ssutfs that were used
III testing the purity Of silver aud other
metals One drop Of this would eat in~
stan,Iy into the flesh and produce poi
sonous sore III ten minutes time. He
cautiously dropped little upon the
burglars hand, and awaited the result.
''BIll," at length exclaimed the burglar
to his comrade 'l've got cursed bur
ming on the back OF my hand It's 50
sore | can hardly work this saw. phew.
how it smarts! | guess I've cut it with
the saw. Hold the dark lantern here"
"Fudge," replied his comrade, change
hands then, but don't stop
Take the saw yourself, then can't
stand this pain r
And while the discomfitted burglar
withdrew to groan over the supposed
cut, the other took his place with the
saw, and in few moments after, received
few drops of the fiery liquid upon the
back Of his bar d, and was soon gFoaning
with agony.
Curse this saw il has cut me, too y
groaned The second thief.
And after sundry oaths being ex
changed. until the first and worst attack
Of pain was over, they renewed the at
tempt to make an entrance.
The clerk permitted them to 60 on a
while uninterrupted|y, knowing that at
any mnmen. he could stop their efforts
BY crying out, but he hoped to hear some
watchmen passing the front of the store,
upon whom he could call to secure the
rogues, and he resolved to wait for this
until it would do to wait no longer.-
But soon the burglars had so much en-
larged the hole, that they would shortly
be able to erter by it themselves.
Seeing that he must do something to
stop them the clerk crept in tue dark
closet at OF side Of the window, and ut
tered low but fierce groael, in imitation
of dog. Both Of the rogues stepped
back at this unexpected interruption.
Hang it, BIZ, there's cursed dog in
here; | did not know that the Herberts
kept one" said one to the other.
"A dcg9 that's bad. Curse EN-, if it
was a man, why, shot or a dirk stroke
would fix him, but dog is quite anoth
er thing, for if we shoot him be would
be sn.e to half kill one of u.s."
"Bow, WOW, wow'' cried the clerk,
with all his power, as he saw them pre-
pairing to resume their work.
'.Confound the dogp' exclaimed both.
"Never mind; go ahead, Bill, and
get it open, now. I'll fix him when we
get in
The burglar addressed as Bill, thrust
his hand in once more to wrench oil the
last piece of wood that obstructed their
entrance, when the clerk, having already
armed himself with q pair Of pinchers,