Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-08-15

l'lIe distance and sprang into the tree m,
i"'eIise enthusiasm of the dog Mt that -
can hardly be described He filed if f,i IL ns
ggaINing' lie paved and scratched as if IN
SSe:I'nlhihg bastion. Standing off at Ii1tio
instance, he would pierce the hole with . ca
az tense ana liked as if he were trying mao
a'o' I on 1t. Ihen, with tail extended
slaught. P'ouisioUs on
Inns imaginary squirrel haunted Noble
night ana day. The very squirrel himself
would run up before his face into tho troa q
and, crouched in a crotch, would sit sila,,t1,''
watching the whole process of bombor5i,ly
the empty hole, with great sobrietv and IS
lsh. But Noble would allow of no dorbta
ms conviction that that hole had a sonirroi
IN 1t continued mistaken tor six weeks WI,
there were no more chickens to harry. No ,,ioa
10 olVe' no cattle to chase, no children IN
rolnp with, no expeditions to mako ,,;t11
the grown folks and when he had SILENT Oh
that his dogs would hold, he wouId vail
out Of the yard, yawn and stretch himself and
then look wistfully at the hole, as if thipking
to himself, ''Well, as there is nothing else to
do may as well try at that hole again 70
we mad almost forgotten this little trait
until the conduct of the New York Eroyeee
IN respect to Col. Fremonts religion brought
1t ludlcrously to mind again. Col. Fremont
is and always has been, as sound a protastaot
as John Knox ever was. He was bred IN rho
Protestant faith and has never changed. He
is unacquanted with the doctrines and cere-
MONIES OF the Catholic Church, and has never
attended the services of that church. with
TWO OF three exceptions, when as a witness.
W. we 90 not state this upon vague belief.
we know whatwe say. We saw it upon our
own personal honor and proper knowIodao
Col. Fremont never was, and is not nov, n
Roman Catholic. He has never been wont
to attend that church. Nor has he in anv
way, directly or indirectly, given occasion for
this report.
1t is a gratuitous falsehood, utter. barren
absolute and unqualified. The story has boen
got up for political effect. 1t is still circulated
tor that reason, and like other political lies. if
Is sheer, uneIupulous falsehood from ton TO
bottom, from the core to the skin, and from
the SKIN back to the core again In all its
parts IN pup tegument, rind, cell and seed,
1t is thorough and total untruth. and thev
who spread it bear false witness. And &C to
all the stories Of the Fulmer. etc. rs fo enn-
posed conversations with Fremont, in which
he defended the mass, and what moi. thew are
pure tctlons They never happened The
authors OF them are slanderers.: the men to
believe them are dupes the men who snread
them become endorsers Of wilful and eorrunt
libelers. r.
But the Express, like Noble, has opened on
this hole in the wall, and can never be done
barking at it. Day after day it resorts to this
empty hole. When everything else fails. thus
resource remains. There they are. indefatig-
aby-the EGpreSs and Noble-s church with
out a Fremont and hole without squirrel
in it!
In some respects, however, the dog had
the advantage. Sometimes we thought that
he really believed that there was souirreI
there. But at other times he apparently had
an inkling Of the RIGHTEOUSNESS of his rom
duet, for he would drop his tail and walk
towards us with his tongue out and his ewes a
little aslant seeming to say, ''Nly dear sir.
you don't understand a dogs feelings. /
should OF course much prefer squirrel, but
II can't have that an empty hole is better
than nothing. l imagine how l would catch
MN II he were there. Besides, peopIe who
pass by don't know the facts. They think
that have got something. 1t is needful to
keep up my reputation for sagacity. Besides.
to iell the truth, have looked into that hole
so long that have half persuaded myself that
there Is a squirrel there, or will be, if l keep
on.
Well, every dog must have his dav, and
every dog must have his way. No doubt if
we were to bring back Noble now, after two
summers absence, he would make STRAIGHT for
that hole in the wall with Just as much zeal
as ever. "'"A
We never read the Express nova. DAYS
without thinking Involuntary, Goodness
the dog is letting off at that hole again.