Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-08-20

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ne had along = very Intelligent dog nsaed No
bic. He was learned Il, matsy things, ssid By bis
doe-lure. xcised the sanJsins admiration Of SIT
the children. But there we're sorae f'.i = ahici.
Wolfe cos.Id never learn IIafiag Oh Sc a.ea-
sion seen red squirrel fanini hole Ii stone
vail, he could not be persuaded that he was not
there sor cres;npse. s
Several rcd squirrels lived ciesc to the ;soase,
and had become .ianiliar. but mol tains.s They
Kept up regular romp with Noble. They
would come down from the maple trees with
provoking GOODNESS, they would ryn along the
fence almost within reach; they world cock
their tails and sail across the road TO the barn
and yet there was such weil-tined calculation
uuder all this apparent rashncss, that Noble in
variahiy arrived at the critical spo, just as the
Squirrel left il.
Ga one occasion Noble was 30 close upon his
red-backed friend that, unable to get up the ma
PIE tree, he doged into hole in the wall. ran
through the chinks. emerged at a little distance,
and sprsng into the tree. The intense enthusi-
assn OF the dog at that hole can hardly be de-
scribed He filed it full of barking. He paw.
ed and scratched as if undermining bastion.
Standing off little distance he would pierce the
hole with gaze as intense and fixed as ii he
were trying magnetism on it. Then. with tail
extended, and every hair thereon electrified
he would rush at the hole with prodigious on
saught.
This imaginary squirrel haunted Noble night
and day. The very squirrel himself would run
up before his face III the tree, and crouched in q
| CROTCH would sit silently watching the whole pro
cess of bombarding the empty hole, with grea,
| sobricty and relish. But Noble would allow Of
no doubts HIS conviction that that hole had a
squirrel IN continued mistaken for six weeks.
! When all other occupations failed, this hole re-
manned to him. When there were no more
chickens to harry, no pigs to bite, no cattle te
chase, no children to romp with, no expedition:
| to make with the grown FOLKS and when he had
slept ali that his dog-skin would hold, he woult
walk out of the yard, yawn, stretch himself ant
then look wistfully at the hole, as il thinking te
himself, swell, as there is nothing else TO do
may rs well try that hole again"
| We had almost forgotten this little trait, unit
the conduct Of the New York Express, in cspec
| to Col Fremont's religion, brought it ladierous
| ly to mind again. Col. Fremont is, and AWAY.
| has been, as sound a Protestant as John kno,
| ever was. He was bred in the Protestant faith
and has never changed. He is unacquainteC
/ with the doctrines and ceremonies of the CathO
| lie Church, and has never attended the services
| of that Chuch, with two or three exceptions
when curiosity, or some extrinsic reason, LEI
him as witness We do not state this upor
| vague belief. We know what we say. We Sd.
it upon our own personal honor and prope
| knowledge. Col. Fremont never was, and il
not now a Roman Catholic. He has never beer
wont to attend that Church. Nor has he, in an,
way. directly or indirectly, given occasion io
this report.
1t is gratuitous faschood, utter, barren, ab
solute, and unqualified. The story has been go
up for political effect. 1t is still circulated To-
that reason, and like other political lies, it is
sheer, inscriptions falsehCod, from top to bot
tom, from the core to the skim and from thu
skin back to the core again. In all its parts il
pulp, regiment, rind cell and seed, ii is tho
| rough and total untruth, and they who spread
bear false witness. And MS to all the stories o
| the Palmer, etc, as TO supposed conversation!
with Fremont, in which he defended the mass
and what not, they are pure fe,ons. They nev
er happened The authers OF them are SANDER
ers; the men who believe them are dupes; tho
men who spread them become endorscrs of vii
full and corrupt libellers. ~a
But the Express like Noble. has opene / OF
this hole in the wall, and can never be done
barking at it. Day after day it resorts to thi
empty hole. When everything else fails thi
resource remains. There they are, ifldeltiiya
blythe Express and Noble-a chuFcl, witnou
In some respects, however, TIL, dog had th
| advantage. Sometimes We thought that he re
ally believed that there Was ii squirrel there
But at other times he apparently had an inkln
OF the righteousness OF his conduct, for lie Ou
drop his tail, and walk towards us with hi
tongue out and his eyes IL little aslant Seenin
to say, "My dear sir, you don't understand
dogs feelings. | should of course much prefe
a squirrel, but if can't have that an empi
hole is better than nothing. l Imagine how
would catch him if he acas there. Besides, pee
pie who pass by don't Know the facts. The
think that have got something. Itls necdn
to keep up my reputation tor sasacity. Beside
to tell the truth / have looked into that hole :
long that l have half persuaded myself til;
there is a squirrel there, Or will be, If kee
on" -5s .....-.- .... ...,.
Well, every dog must have his day, and ever
| dog mVst have his way. No doubt if we we;
to bring back Noble now, after two summer
abscnce, he would make straight for that ho
in the wall with just as much zeal as ever.
! We never read the Express nowadays, will
out thinking, involuntarily, ''Goodness! the do
is letting off at that hole again. New York II
dependent.