Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1856-12-13

what was to be done, and resolving upon
the fell design Of enticing Towser into the
water and there drowning him. Abuse
and tiattery being equally thrown away
upon him, [ tried stones; heayed at him
with all my force the largest pebbles
could select, the majority of which he
evaded by leaping from side to side, and
those which struck him rendered him so
furious that | believe in my soul he would
have killed and eat me if he could, whe-
ther was dressed or%aa, but he would
not venture into the water after me still.
At last, the time drawing on apace for
the appointed interview which bad once
looked forward to with such delight and
expectation, | was fain, in an agony of
shame and rage, to hide myself in dry
ditch in the neighboring copse, where I
could see what took place without being
seen, and there [ covered myself over, like
a babe in the wood, with leaves.
Presently my Lucy came down, tri4e
more carefully dressed than usual and
looking all grace and modesty; the dog
began to howl as she drew near; she saw
him and she saw my clothes, and the no.
ton that was drowned Il could see it in
her expressive countenance( flashed upon
her at once; for one instlAt she looked as
though about to faint, and the next she
sped off again to the hotel with the speed
of deer. Gracious Heavens decided
upon rescuing portion of my garments,
at least, or upon perishing in the attempt,
and rushed out Of the thicket for the pur-
pose; but my courage failed me as heard
the savage animal, and / found myself lin
some confused and palpitating manner)
back in my dry ditch again, with the
sensation of a loss of blood and pain; my
retreat had not been effected, perhaps, be-
cause there was nothing to cover it, with.
out considerable loss, and the beast had
bitten me severely. protest that, from
that moment, frightfui as my position was,
it did not move me so much as the refeC-
ton of the honors that wound be shower.
ed down on that vile creature. knew
that he would be considered by Lucy and
the rest as sort of dog of Montargis, an
afectionate and sagacious creature,
watching patiently at his appointed post
for the beloved master that would never
again return to him.
Presently they all came back, Lucy
and her mother, and all the maid-ser-
wants from the inn, besides my fellow
students and fishermen with drag-nets,
and medical man with blankets and
brandy, (how | enYied the blankets and
the brandy y As | expected, neither the
women's cries nor the mems labor in vain
distressed me half so much as the patting
and earessing of Towser; could not re-
press groan Of horror and indignation:
Hush, hush,' said Lucy, and there was
silence through which / could distinctly
hear ToWser licking his chops. / was
desperate by this time, and haIlood out
to my friend Sanford, Sanford and nobo-
dy else,' to come into the copse with a
blanket.
/ remember nothing more distinctly
Immediately peals of laughter, now smo-
thered, now breaking irrepressibly forth;
expressions of thankfulness, of affection,
of sympathy beginning but never finished,
burst in upon, as It were, by floods of
and the barking, the eternal
of that execrable dog. | left
Killarney that same evening; Lucy, and
the mother of Lucy. aHd my feilow-stu-
dents, and the abominable Towser, left
them for good and all; and that was how
my engagement was broken off, and why
there is no Mrs. Peony Flush, concluded
the curate, whohad turned from rose-color
10 deep carnation, and from that to al
most black, during the recital.