The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1860-03-28


ing towards the door, as il expecting some
body or something in that direction. Al
half past nine O'Clock, Abner Briggs, Junior
who had not yet shown himself made his
appearance. He was followed by bis "ysl
lab dog" without his muzzle, who squatted
down very gTimIy near the door, and gave o
wolf,h look round the room, as if be were
considering which was the plumpest boy to
begin with. The young butcher, mean
while, went to his seat, looking somewhat
flushed, except round the lips, which were
hardly red as common, and set pretty
sharply.
"Put out that dog, Abner Briggs !" The
master spoke as the captain speaks to the
helsman, when there are rocks foaming at
the lips, right under his lee.
Ahner Briggs answered as the heIsman
answers, when he knows he has mutinous
crew round him that mean to run the ship
on the reef, and is one of the mutineers him.
self: "Put him Rout yrself, # ye ant
afraid on him !"
The master stepped in the aisle. The
great cur showed his teeth, and the devlish
instincts of his old wof.ancestry looked out
of his eyes and flashed from bis sharp tusks,
and yawned in his mouth and deep red
gulet.
The movements of animals are SO much
quicker than those Of human beings COM
monty are, that they avoid blows just as ca.
silly as one of us steps out of the way OF an
OK cart. 1t must be very stupid dog that
let's himself be run over by fast driver in
his gig; he can jump out of the wheels
way sitter the tire has already touched him
! So while one iS lifting stick to strike, or
draw back his foot to kick, the beast makes
his spring, and the blow or kick comes too
late.
1t was not so this time. The master was
a fencer, and something OF a boxer; he had
I played at single stick, and WAS used to
, watching an advers.ry's eye, and coming
e down on him without any Of these premoni
: tory symptoms by which uuprecticed per
. sons show long beforehand Whist mische
{ they mediate.
- "Out Nth you!" he said ierce'y,
r expI ined what he meant by sudden fast
. OF his foot that cldshed the yellow dog
h white teeth together, like the spring of
v bear-trap. The cur knew he had found hi
t. master at the first word and glance, as 10,
it animals on four legs, or smaller numbe
:. always do; and the blow took him SO muc
h by surprise that it curled him up in an in
,. stant, and he went out of the open schoo
of house door with pitiable yelp, and bi
stump OF tail shut down rs close as hi
ID owner ever shut the short, stubbed blade {
his jack-knife.
q. 1t was time for the cur 10 find who hi
n muster was.
m Follow your dog, Abner Briggs - sal
n. Master Langdon.
=, The stout butcher youth looked round, b,
in the rebels were all cowed and sat still.
be "l'll 60 when I'm ready" he said--"'n
he guess l won't go before I'm ready"
W, "You're ready now," sOd Master Lam
II don, turning up his cuffs go that the lit
rs boys saw the yellow CLEAN of pair Of go
sleeve buttons, once worn by Col. Per
Il. Wentworth, famous in the old French WE
1T. Abner Briggs, junior, did not apparent
of think he was ready, for he rose in his pla
by and stood with cenched fists, defiant, as t
as. master strobe towards him. The mssI
knew the fellow was really frightened,
er. all his looks, and that he must have no til
led to rally. So he caught him suddenly by
md collar, and, with one great pull, had h
iss over his desk and on the open floor.
gave him q sharp fling backwards, and stt
Tho looking at him.
,or The rough-and tumble fighters all cln
bo. and he was one Of that kind. He RENE
-. bered how he had foored master Wee
.oo and had just spunk enough left in him to
- the experiment on the new master.
sho sprang at him open handed to clutch him
"a So the master had to strike,-once, but VI
,ah hard, and just in the place to tell. No doV
,.r the authority that doth hedge school m
49,. ter added to the effect of the blow, but
ho blow was itself neat ons, and did not
Re-. qure to be repeated.
va "Now 60 home," said the master, /" ,
of don't let me see you or your dog here agai
or And he turned his cuffs down again over
vbo gold sleeve buttons.
all This finished the great Pigwacket Cen
school rebellion. What could be done W
saw a master who was so pleasant as long as
the boys behaved decently, and such terri
his fellow when he got "riled," as they cal
ver it! In weeks time, everything was re
Is O ced to order, and the school committee W
way delighted. The master, however, had
ing ceved proposition so much more agreeu
uld and advantageous, that he informed
committee be should leave at the end of
his month, having in his eye sensible and
With ergetic young college graduate, who wo
tied be willing and fully competent to take
8 of place.
o;la ----~seAa-
OF Parson Browniow hos published
vindicaton OF his son, who killed fell,
student in Emory and Henry College,
,no ainia, as he alleges in selfdefence.