The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1856-11-12
4 guess you're a fool any way,' say

along, and were invited to step in
'Ahl that's a dogi' calculated tn
country SPORTSMAN, the moment hi
his eyes lit upon the massive proper
tions of a laundering edition of Mt. st
Bernard.
THAT is q dog, sir was the emphat
ic response of the dog merchant.
How much do you ask for that dog !
quoth the sportsman.
WELL says the trader, patting hi
dog, Il thought of getting about fifty
five dollars for him, but l.
Stop interrupted the country sports
man, that's enough-he won't suit, NJ
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
ain'tit 'Tain't got no hair on it; why
where in blazes did you raise such a dog
as that been scalded, hain't it p says
the rural sportsman, examining the crit.
ter.
'Scalded p echoed the dog man, look.
ing no ways amiabte at the speaker,
why didn't you never see a Chinese ter
rier, afore?'
mo, and if that's one, I don't care
about seeing another. Why, he looks
like a siuged possum p
well, you're a pooty looking coun-
try jake, you are, to advertise for a dog,
and don't know Chimney terrier from a
singed possum p
Another rap at the door announced
more dogs, and as the man opened it to
get out with his singed possum, a genus
who evidently KILLED for Keyser, rushed
in with a pair of the ugliest-lookiug-
savage-snub-nosed, slaughter-house
pups, the fancy might ever hope to
look upon! As these meat-axish can
ines made a rush at the very boot tops
of the country s~portsmen, he SHE'D off,
pretty perceptibly.
Are you de man advertised for de
dogs, sa-a-ay? You needn't be afraid
o. dem ONE a'here, lay da-own, Balty
days de dogs, mister, vot you read
ofr
Amt they rather fierce p asked the
rural SPORTSMAN, cycling the ugly
brutes,
Fierce? Better believe dey are
show 'em a flight, if you want to see
ZEN go in for de chance! You want to
see der teeth p
No, I guess not timidly responded
the SPORTSMAN they are not exactly
what I want, he continued.
What says Jakey, don't want
'em Why, look a'here, you don't go
or to say dat you 'spect I'm agoin' for
to fetch d-dogs clean down here, for
nuthin', do you, sa-a-ay? Cos if you
do, I'll jis drop off my duds and lam ye
out o. yer bootsr
Jakey was just beginning to square,
when.his belligerant 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 newcomers, than they
went in; a fight eusued-both of ia
pups lighting down on an able
bodied, big-bone, sorrel dog, who ap-
peared perfectly happy in the transac-
ton, and having a tremendous jaw of
ais own, made the bones of the pups
track with the high pressure he gave
hem. Of course a dog fight is the cue
or a man fight, and in the wag of a
lead lambs tail, Jakey and the propri-
tor of the sorrel dog had a dispute.
)akey was attitudinizing q la the fan
~ when the sorrel dog mau-who, like
is dog, was got up on a liberal scale
f strength and proportions--walked
light into Jakey's calculations, and
him in double fip-faps on to the
of the rural sportesman's !
Our sporting friend viewed the !
combatants more in bodily fear :
han otherwise, and was making a break a
n the door, to clear himself, when to t
horror and amazement, he found the |
ntry beset by sundry men and boys, l
any quantity of dogs-dogs of eve h
hue, size, and description. At that S
.oment the chawed-up pups of Jakey, s
I'D their equally used>up master, came y
rushing down stairs-another fight en- !
led on the stairs between Jakey's dogs Il
i'd some others, and then a STAMPEDE t.
dogs-mixing up of dogs-tangling tt
ropes and straps-cursing and hur-
ing, and such a time generally, as is ST
r better imagined than described. The es
'arders hearing such a wild outcry- a
say nothing of the yelps of dogs, came 81
It of their various rooms, and retired 6,
quickly, to escape the stray and con- pi
sed dogs, that were now ki-yi-ing, yelp- al
g, and pitching all over the house st
JudlcIous marshalling of the servants Is
'broOm-sticks, rolling-pins and canes, n y
e dogs and their various proprietors
re elected, and order onee more re.
the country SPORTSMAN seized to
) ValIse, paid his bills and svamosed . ~
. ranch,' and ever after it was incor. RI
rated in the rules of the Irving, that K
ntlemen are strictly prohibited from otI
lling in dogs while putting up in I'M
e EnZconbr;I1e Is