Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-02-02
From the Union and Amer sur LOVENGOOD'S DOG
BY s-L-. OF TENNESSEE


 ever see 'im?'' "No.' "Well, ye missed site He wur powerful dog an sometimes ye'd think that he wur two UT three dogs, if ve seed hm eat; not countin owe his tail, fur he nednt eny. When he wur a pun, Dad, durn nm, tuck i'm to straw cutter famed his starn closC up to the frame owe the cussed gulotine an ioch down the nlfe, an thar lay the hole tail Tn the troft, like letter $, an here run the pup youlin like hound, an his starn looked ike you'd busted ripe tomatis onto it. We'll if changed his looks mitely, and his mater more, Now as to his looks, rite onto the spot whar his tail orter staid, thar growd bunch owe stiff ash cultured bristles, what pinted every way like onto split broom with the rappn cut loose. an rite in the middl owe all this fusscv lookin patch owe har the pint owe his back bone, xiv cred with grlstil, stuck out like onto a pid- gln's aS, cage he sot onto hit so much. Well, the aiar looked mity sassy and fte like, env how, purtlculerly when he wur struttin up tn big strange dog tn smell owe i'm. Itmade his sturn look hler than his shoulders, purpendicu- Ter and squar; an he he'd way ove walkin SOW an solem like Pve seed yung fellers do at camp heetm when apfoachln owe gall at the spring with thar stud hoss close on agwine sorter side ways an amity keerful. Eve seed little hogs % through the same motions wun in peach or
 
 wanted tn tte and wud dun it but fur the fence what Wur atween em. 1 never found out that he wur good fur eny thing but to keep bred rum mouIdm an meat rum spilin; an when he wanted to show glad. es he he'd 10 tale to wag. he waggcd hls hole sturn an his hine feet slip ped about on the groun, sorter like fashunab gall walks when she thinks sum he feler is lookln at CT. lie wur cultured adzactlv like mlideWed sadll skirt, aLd he kerried his years on howln sort of cock, like onto a mules when he is skeered. He'd whiskers round his eyes, an on his hlne legs, must had a power iul active conslnce fur he wur the meanest coun- tmenced dog ever seed in my life Now as tu hs nater yu cud never set i'm onto eny thing yu wanted tn, and cud'ut call i'm often env thing he got arter on his own accord He war skeered all the time, an stood redy to run or tn steal as the chances mout be; and takin i'm altogether. he Wur Jst the rite sort ove dog tn belong tn me-not wurth a durn, an orter been killed alore hls eyes got open.
 " W ell, Stuf Gut, he follered me tu town wun day, Jlst cage l didn't want him tu; an while I wur gettn on a he'd owe steam at the doggerv. he started roun town on a stealth expedition owe his own, an like his cGssed fool owner got his- sell inter hrst rate scrape an skare without halt tryln, an ill less nor no time at that 1 he'd ". the Whlskey ln me sloSh, 1 knowd 1 he'd my load aboad, so cum inter the street dn--the- lust thing l seed he cum tarindown the street hiteen tunes faster nor thot he cud run. list bowm ove hissclf bis wears sot onto his neck. an his briStIes all sot like a black pearch's top tn, his eyes shot up fast and tite, and he'd on a sort owe haness made outer strings, sorter like the set Dad wore when he acted Ioss, and he wnr hauIn owe old stage lant em and hit hlled with wet powder an sot atire Now the sparks an the clzlIn an the dust all the ratin an the youlln an growth an bartin an the eighty nlne UT ninety dogs owe all kinds what wur a chasln owe h'm, made sum sensashun. We'll It. did. Whew-w-w. When seed him pass without nowin me. thot of Dads hornet tribu- iatlon, and felt thot thar wur such a thing as a retrbutlon, at last; and then got mad an look ed roun fur sum wun to vent rath on an seed a ong-legged cuss, sorter of the Lovegood stripe. with his hat cooked before, sitten straddil owe a hoss-rack, swngn his legs an a singing
 Rack, back Davy, rarin mp behinc,
 You show me your foot, and I'll show you mine"
 Thinks you'll do, ef yu dint start my dog on that hellward eXperdition owe hs'n, vou'll do tu put in on eny how, so here goes Sez I: Mister w hath hed-my dog -dun-tu-yu. He pade no tention, but kep on d singin-
 ' Rack, back Davy. daddy shot d bar
 Shot 'em III the eye, an never toch a har"
 seed it wur no use tryin tn breed a quarrel; so that l mout be able tu breed c an list lent him s'atharin calamity, rite har his suout commenced a Sproutin rum atween his eyes. with ruff rock about the size owe a goose aig. lit toch i'm! He trapped olfen the boss rack. but hit sluiIrel-ho holt onto the pole with his paws an hine feet, an hung back down. Hump ,.I bpd fms f k i
 my hett broke his holt, and we cum to the ground ftin-me ondermosr, an turned heads an tails. So the fust thing did, was tn shut my jaws onto mouthful owe his steak, nj onto the place whar yer foot itches to go when yu ar n klckln distance of fop. He fit mity fur the chance he had. but 1 soon seed lie had a cross owe bar in i'm, fur he cudent stand ticklin belId, ei itmoute be called at all; fur every time he got his hine legs onder him. he tried his durndest tu jump loose, but my holt hlt, an we would luke our tust persition agiu I thot ove a loX ovc matches what he'd in my pocket so ioch the hole b,xfni arake onto the gravil an stuffed em all blazin inter one ove the uock cts in his coat tail. Now, mind, he now'd nuthn owe these perseedins, fur his mind wur exercised powerful about the hurtin 1 wur helpin i'm tu behine. 1 now'd he'd soon show strong signs owe wantin tn go So the fu,t big rare he toch arter the fire reached his hide. I Jlst let my mouth fly open-so-an he aCe7u his hole tale in blaze! Rite here, bows, 1 must tell yu sumthn didn't no myself, UT durn me- ei 1 hed'nt let him beat me inter poults afore I'd sot him tire-I'd seed him durnd fust The thot on it skeers me yet. He had two pounds owe gun powder in tother pocket takin home to a shooun match. We'll, he aimed tn run past tin peddlin waggin, what was standin n hp uit hoss bones atween the shafts, while the Yankee was in the doggery, 6rin up tu leave town Jlst as he got clost tu the carrvall, the powder cot"h fire, an soon afterwards a0ent of an So did he, head fust frog fashion, rite thru the top load owe tin war; He lit runnin ten foot luther side; his coat tail wur bowed off tu his should CTS, the hine end of his galuses was raped round his neck, the tale owe his shut wua loose, an up Tn the air thirty feet, still rizin and blazin like a komlt, hls brltches hung loose on the frunt side, like onto a torked aprun, while the sittin part ove em wus blowed tu kingdum cum, an so wur everything else belongin to that regin. while his back wuS black as a side owe upper lether. IL rained tin buckets, an strainers, an tn cups, an pans, an stage horns, all over that street Tor two minutes an half.
 Now that explosion, an the tin war a ratlin an ralnin, made rite peart noise, specially owe still day; in fac, enuf to wake up the ole hoss bones an gin him the idear that he'd best leave town quick; so he laid his years back an straitened out his tail an shot He made kind lnwood putin the waggin agin sine-post an betuck hissef tu the woods, stretched out about twenty feet long, an not morn three feet high on the withers, with jist about enuf harness slckln tu hlm tu make a cutler for a bell COW. Thar wus wun cussed nutmeg makin Yankee broke plum up, an Pm durnd glad ove it. Old Rack Back Davy, the boss rack man. made fur the ruver, an iollered tu the bank tn see eff he hednt drownded hissei; but no, sir! Thar he wur, about the middil ove the ruver, swmip fur the luther lank, jist splitin the water wide open, an his busted britches legs floatin arter him. He looked over his shoulder every other lick like he spected tn see the devil; his face wur as black as pot, sept white ring roun his eyes, an the smoke wus still risn rum amung the stumps owe his burnt har His he'd, bows, Ill that ruver, wus the ugliest, scuriest, an savd ges site l ever seed or spec tn see in Mis wurld.