Mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado Co., Cal.) 1854-1860, 1860-01-14
RAB AND HIS FRIENDS,
By pR. JUilN BROWN.

Four and thirty years ago, Bob Ainslic and
were comir = np lntirmary street, from the
high school, our heads together and our arms
iuttrtW is'cd, a. only lovers know how or why.
When wc got to the top OF the street and
termed north, we c>licd a crowd at the Iron
( church. a dog fight. shouted Bob, and
was oti, and 50 was |, both of us all but pray
Ing that it might not be over before we got
up and i not this boy nature! and human
nature too? aud don't we all wish house on
fire not to be out before we see it? Dogs
like fighting; old Isaac says they delight y
in il, and for the beStof all reasons; and boys
are not cruel because they like too see the
fight. They see three of the great cardinal
virtues "i thr dog or man-cnuragc, cndu-
rance n"d >ai,l--in Intense action. This is
very different fiona love OF making dng>
ii-ht aud ~ iuying and aGgravating, and ma
Kin: gain "t thrirp!nrk. y hny-bc he ever
II I"ud himself Of G!htiuE, if he he good
boy, bate, atd dc-i,i>r> all this bat he would
iIavc rln oi with me fast enough; it is nat
nra ai,i i.nt wicked interest, that all men
aud boys have in witnessing intense energy
in action.
Dos an. curious and finely ignorant w0.
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an o.ln,,i Il dog t;.ift ~ his brain: lie did
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presented tito the M, oi the Chicken. The
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