American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1856-03-01
OBTAINING REYENGE.


Mr.. Snarl resides in Forsythe street.
Mr.. Snarl is an old bachelor, with an l. |
rish girl for q housckeeper. Snarl lives
in good style, but has some queer no.
tons. He dislikes dogs above all things
organ griuders aud beggars not except.
ed.
Snarfs next door neighbor is Hurry
Sampson. Now Harry is the very OPP
posite TO old Mr.. Snarl. He sets high
value on dog, aud there is only one ar
ticle equal to Newfoundland, aud that's
a woman. Harry has several specimens
OF the canine race. The other evening
they got up bowling match because
the moon became eclipsed. They COM
mencod about ten o'clock and Kept it
up until the sun got an inch and half
above Williamsburg.
This so annoyed Mr.. Snarl, that he
had Harry jerked up "for nuisance"
and fined ten dollars. Harry paid the
money, but resolved on revenge. The
next morning the following advertise
ment appeared in the Herald:
WANTED-At Forsythe street, too
Bull dogs, and four Spaniel Pups. For
full blooded dogs the highes. price will
he paid. Call between four and elk p.
NJ. JAMES Swan,
| We need not say that the advertise.
ment was inserted by Harry. His rea-
son for making the calls between four
and six z. nj. 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 Bow
cry to Grand, to Forsy,he, and up For
sythe sothe mansion occupied Mr.Snarl.
The first person that pulled the doo--
bell was abutcher boy from Centre Mar
ket with pair ofBull dogs, that wosld
tear the heart out of a tiger" Mag
gie answered the boil, when the follow
ing colloquy took place:
Does Mr.. Snarl 1.-Two here .
He does. Why do you axp
I've got some dogs for him
Dogs for Mr.. Snarl--mother of Mo.
ses, didyou over you mistook tho door.
1 Devil bit--read that
Here Syksee took out tho Moyniae
Herald, and showed Maggie the adver.
tisement. Maggie was thunderstruck
There was mo denying the adver'
tisement." She accordingly told Syk-
see to go into the back yard "wid the
dogs" and await the return of Mr..
Snarl. Syksee did 80.
In about two minutes, Maggie was a.
gain summoned to the door-6ell.
What do you wantl'
| Mr.. Snarl. I've got the dogs he
wanted
| You havoc Well then 90 into the
yard with the other bIackguard'
No. 2 followed No. /; No. Q was
soon followed by No 8, who was sue.
ceeded by lots A, s and 6. By half past
five, the back yard contained twenty
one bull dogs and fourteen spaniels.-
The former got up MISUNDERSTANDING
aud by the time Mr.. Snarl had arrived
seven spaniels had been placed hors d.
combat, while brindle bull dog from
Fulton Market was going through his
third fight with "yaller tarrier" from
Mount street
Mr.. Snarl reached homo few min
utes before six. Maggie opened the
door and burst out as follows:
For the love Of tho Lord 90 back and
stop EN-. They are eating one anoth-
or up, and if not choked off will deyour
the cistern. Since the days of Crum-
mel I've not heard such hullaballoo
entirely
Snarl event back"--Snarl looked
into the yard and would have sworn, but
could not find oaths sufficiently power
full to do justice to his feelings. When
we left MIR. Snarl was emptying "the
back yard with an axe heIvo. The
next day Harry Sampson complained of
him for having a"dog fight on his prem
isos. Snarl was fined twenty. five dol
lars--fifteen dollars for having "such a
fight" and ten dollars for being "an old
hypocri,e." IL is nece ssary for Us to
say that Harry Sampson slept better
that night than any other night since the