The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1857-06-26

hau olt Ol my calf off,
you nasty brutal dog; 20 away. 81,
go, amt you ashamed OF yourself?'
Drops of foam oozed through IN
teeth OF the ferocious monster as h
stood up with his tail erect at thes,
reproving words, but lie manifesto,
no sign Of remorse or sorrow. N,
situation became serious in the ex
tre,ne; what ifhc chose to sit there
on my personal apparel, until!
AT this idea, too terrible to be con
cloded, a profuse perspiration broke
out all over me. Presently FEELING
a little cold, went back into the
lake again to consider what was to
done, and resolving upan the fell do.
sign OF enticing Towser into the wa.
ter and there drowning him. Abuse
and ilattery being equally thrown
away upon him, | tried stones /: !
heaved at him with tho largest peb
bles ! could sclet, the majority of
which DE evaded by leaping from
side to side, and those which struck
him se furious that believe he
would hare killed and eaten me If
he could, whether was dressed or
not, but hewould not venture into the
water after lue still.
Atlast, the time drawing on apace
Tor the appointed interview which |
had once looked forward to with
such delight and expectation, | was
iain, in an agony oi shame and rage.
to hide myself in a dry ditch in |
ncigpboring copsc, where could
see what took place without being
seen, and there covered myselfover,
like IA babe in the wood, with leaves
Presently my Lucy came down, a
trihe 'p,ore carefully dressed than
nsual, and looking all grace and
nodesty ; the dog began to howl rs
'he drew near; she saw ,hti'Sof,on,
'"o he. saw ny HJHfownded Il could see it .
n hcrcxprcssive countenance, )Hash.
d upon her at once ; for one instant
he looked as though about faint, I
md the next she sped off again to {
he hotel with the speed of a deer
gracious Heavens. | decided upon I
cscuing portion OF my garments, {
It least, or upon perishing in the at.
empt, and rushed ont of the thicket ,
ortle purpose I; but my courage fail.
d me as heard the savage animal, c
md found myself Gn some confu. i
ed and pal Litating manncr) back in c
ny dry ditch again, with the sensa. ,
ion OF loss OF blood and pain; my c
etrcat had not been eiiected-pcr.
laps, because there was nothing to {
over without considerable loss, {
nd the beast had bitten me severe.
y. | protest, that from that mo. $
ncnt, frightiul as my position was, (
did not move me SO much rs the '
chcction of the honors that would
'e showered down upon that vile t
reature. knew that he would be
onsidcrcd by Lucy and the rest as a Q
ort of dog of Montargis, an alItc.
ionatc and sagacious creature, I
patiently at his appointed
'ost for the beloved master that
would never again return to him. .
Presently they all came back, Lu-
y, and her mother, and all his maid ,
ervants from the inn, besides my ,
ny fellow students and fisherman, .
With drag-nets, and q medical man /
With blankets ard brandy chow en-.
lied the blankets and the brandyD- .
Az | expected, neither the woman's ,
,rics nor the mems labor in vain dis. |
ressed me half 30 much "a the pat
ing AMI carressing of Towser I l
,ould not represS groan OF horror {
md Indignation /: "Ilush, lIush,"
aid Lucy, and there was silence ,
trough which could distinctly hear {
rowser licking his chops. was
desperate by this time, end hallocd
mt to my friend Sandford-"San- 4
ord and nobody else" to come to
he copse with a blanket. il
remember nothing moro distinc'
ly. Immediately peals oflaughter,
low smothered, now breaking ire
iponsibly forth expressions ofthank-
ulness, Of affection, Of sympathy
,egining, but never finished, burst
n upon, as it were, by flood Of
nerrimcnt and the barking, the
eternal barking, Of that execrable
log. lleft Killarney that same eve-
hing; Lucy, and the mother OF Lu-
", and my fellow students and the
,bominable Towser left them all,
or good. And that was how my en-.
yagement was broken off; and why
here is no Mrs. Peony Flush, con-
,luded the curate, who had turned /
from rose color to deep csrnation and
from that to almost black during the
recital.