The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1856-11-12
DOG DAY.


1 used to like dogs-a puppy Low
that I got bravely over, since once upo
q time, when a Dutch bother, in the cit
of Charleston, s. c., put an end to m
Poor SAe,-the prettiest and most d,
voted female bull terrier specimen c
the canine race you ever did see,
guess. Ny Sac got into the wrong pew
n morning the crout-eating cordwain
or and she had a dispute-he, the bul
aet-headed ball of wax, up with his re
volver, and-I was doglessl I dom
think dogs a very profitable investment
and every man weak enough to keep &
dog in a city, ought to pay for the lux
ury handsomely-to the city authori.
ties. Some people have a great weak
ness for dogs. Some fancy gentlemen
seem to think it the very apex of high
co~ckalorumdom to have the skeleton of
greyhound and highly polished collar
following them through crowded thor
oughfares. Some young ladies, especial
~ those of doubtful ages, delight in Ca
ressing Jumps of white, cotton-looking
dumpy dogs and toting them around, to
the disgust of the lookers-on-with all
the fondness and blind infatuation of a
mamma with her first born, bran new
baby. Wherever you see any quantity
of white and black Aafers-Pbiladel-
phia, for instance, you'll see RATS of ug-
IL and wretehed looking ours. Boz says
poverty and oysters have a great Atm
ity; in this country, for oysters read
dogs. Who has not, that ever travelled
over this remarkable country, had occa-
sion to be down on dogs? Who that
has has ever lain awake, for hours at a
stretch, listening to a blasted cur, not
worth to any body the powder that
would blow him up-but has felt a de-
sire to advocate the dog-law, so judic-
iously praeticed in all well-regulated Cit
les? Who that ever had a sneaking
t%illainous cur slip up behind and NIP
ont a patch of your trowsers, boot top
aud ealf-the size of an oyster, but has
felt for the pistol, knife or club, and
sworn eternal enmity to the whole ca
nine race? Who that ever had q big dog
5amp upon you Russia-ducks and patent
ieathers|ust as he had come out of a
mud-puddle, but has nearly forfeited his
title to Christianity, by cursing aloud
IN his grief-like a trooper? Well,
have, for one of a thousand.
The fact of the business is, with pre-
clous few exceptions, dogs are a Dui-
sance, whatever Col. Bill Porter of the
Spirit and his thousand and one dog
fancyiug and inquiring friends, may
think to the contrary; and the man that
will invest fifty real dollars in a dog
skin, has got a tender place in his head,
not healed up as it ought to be.
While putting up t'other day, at
the Irving House, New York, I heard
q good dog story that will bear repeat
ing, I think. A sporting gent from the
country, stopping at the Irving, wanted
a dog, a good dog, not particular wheth-
er it was a spaniel, hound, pointer, Eng
lish terrier or Butchers bull. So a
friend advised him to put an advertise.
ment in the Sun and Spirit of the Times,
which he did, requesting the fancy"
to bring along the right sort of dog to
Irving House, room number =
The advertisement appeared stimuli.
'aneously in the two papers on Satur-
lay. There were but few calls that
lay; but on Monday, the Spirit hav- {
ng been freely imbibed by it's numer- {
bus readers over Sunday, the dog men 1
we're awake, and then began the scene. f
fhe occupant of room number - had |
scarcely got up, before a servant ap- t
peared with a man and dog. c
Believe, sir, you advertised for a a
log?' quoth he with the animal. +
Yes was the response of the coun- J
~ fancy map, who, by the way, it must !
8 promised, was rather green as to the :
uality aud prices of fancy dogs. t
What kind of a dog do you call '
he add ed. s
"A greyhound, full blooded, SIR Q
. Full blooded?' says the country t
portsman. well, he don't look as P
rough he had much blood in him. He'd g
'ok better, wouldn't he, mister, if he d
a. full bellied-looks as hollow as a tt
ate y
This remark, for q moment, rather ia
sggered the dog man, who first looked Ii
his dog and then at the critic. Cho- Z
ng down his dander, or disgust, says ~ ~
of
That's tho best greyhound you ev- til
saw SIR as
9 Well, what do you ask for him p gu
Seventy-fve. dollars ~
What? SeYenty-fve dollars for re,
1t dog frame p We