The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1860-03-02

round tavern ora butchers shop, or trots
alongside team, looking Is ifhc were dis
gusted with the world, and tho world with
him. Our inland population, while they
tolerate him, speak of him With contempt
Old, of Meredith Bridge, used to twit
the sun for not shining on cloudy days,
swearing that, If he hung up his yallah
dog" he would make better show OF day.
light. A country fellow, abusing horse OF
his neirhbor's, vowed that "if he had such
a hos,, he'd swap him for "yallah dog"
and then shoot the dog"
Tige was an ill-conditioned brute by ma
ture, and art had not improved him any by
cropping his ears and tail, and investing MIN
with spike collar. He bore on his own
person, also, various not ornamental scars
marks of old battles; for Tige had fight in
him, as was said bef,re, and rs might be
guessed by certain bluntness aboat the
muzzle, with projection about the lower
Jaw, which looked as il there might be q bull
dog stripe among the numerous bar-sinisters
of his lineage.
1t was hardly fair however, to leave Almi-
nv Cutterr waiting while this piece of natu-
raj history was telling. AS she spoke OF Int
tie Jo, who had been halt eat up by rige.
she could not contain her sympathies, and
began to cry. -
"Why, my dear little soul, said Mr.. Ber.
nard, "what arc you worried about? used
to play with bear when wasa boy; and
the bear used to hug me, and used to kiss
him,
1t was too bad of Mr.. Bernard, only the
second time he had seen Almiry; but her
kind feelings had touched him, and that
seemed the most natural way of expressing
his gratitude. Alminy looked round to sec
il anybody was near she saw nobody. 30,
of course, il would do no good to "holler."
She saw nobody, but stout young fellow,
leading yellow dog, muzlcd, saw her
through crack in a picked fence, not
great way of the road. Manya year he had
been "hangin' raoun,'" and never did he
SEQ any encouraging look, or hear any "Be-
have, naow!" or "Come, naUw, ant yo
'shamed?" or other forbidden phrase of nc.
quiesccnce, such MS village bellies understand
us we'll as ever did the nymph who fled to
the willows in the cclogue we oil remember.
No wonder he was furious, when he saw the
who had never seen the girl
until within q week, touching with his lips
those rosy checks which he had never dared
approach. But that was not all; it was o
sudden impulse; and the master turned
away from the young girl, laughing, and tell.
ing her not to fret about him-he would
take care of himself.
So Master Langdon walked on toward his
school-house, not displcased, perhaps, with
his little adventure, nor immensely clated by
it; for hc was one of the natural class of the
and had had many smile
without asking, which had been denied to
the feeble youth who try to win favor by
pleading their passion in rhyme, and even to
the more formidable approaches of young Of
iiccrs in volunteer companies, considered by
many to be quite irresistible to the fair who
have once bchcld them from their windows
In the epaulettcs and plumes, and sashes of
the "Pigwackct Invincibles," or the slack
matack Rangers"
Master LSngdon took his seat and began
the exercises OF his school. The smaller boys
recited their lessons well enough, but some
of the larger ones were negligent and surly.
lie noticed one or two of them looking to-
ward the door, as il expecting somebody or
in that direction. At half.past
nine o'clock Abner Briggs, Jr., who had not
vet shown himself, made his appcarance.-
lie was followed by his "yallah dog" with
out his muzzle, who squatted down very
grimly near the door and gave wolish look
round the room, us If he were considering
which was the plumpest boy to begin with.
The young butcher, meanwhile, went to his
seat, looking somewhat flushed, except round
the lips, which were hardly us red as COM
mon, and set pretty sharply.
"Put out that dog, Abner Briggs" The
master spoke as the captain speaks to the
helmsman, when there are rocks foaming ut
the lips, right under his lee.
Abner Briggs answered Us the hclmsman
answers when he knows he has mutinous
crew around him that mean to run the ship
on the reef, and is one of the mutineers him
self. "Put him aout y'rself, fyo ant
afeared on him ~
The master stepped into the aisle. The
great cur showed his teeth, and the devilish
instincts of his old wolf.anccstry looked out
of his eyes, and flashed from his sharp tusks
and yawned in his wide mouth and deep red
gullct.
The movements Of animals are so much
quicker than those of human beings COM
monty are, that they avoid blows rs easily rs
one oi us steps out of the way of an ox.cart.
II must be u very stupid dog that lets him
self be run over by fast driver in his gig :
he can jump ont Of the wheels way after the
tire has already touched him. So, while one
rs lifting stick to strike, or drawing back
his foot to kick, the beast makes his spring,
and the blow or the kick comes too late.
II was not SO this time. The master was
a fcncer, and something Of a boxer he had
played at single sticks, and was used to
Watching al adversaiy's eye, and coming
down on him without any of those Fremont.
tory symptoms by which unpractised per-
sons show long beforehand what mischief
they mediate.
"Out with you" he said fierccly.-and
explained what he meant by a sudden flash
of his foot that clashed the yellow dogs
white teeth together, like the spring of u
bcar-trap. The cur knew he had found his
master at the first word and glance, rs low
animals OH four legs, or u smaller number al-
WAYS do, and the blow took him 50 much by
surprise that it curled him up in an instant,
and he went bundling out of the open school.
house door, with a most pitiablc yelp, and
his stump of tail shut down as close as his
owner ever shut tho short, stubbed blade OF
his jackknife.
Ii was time for the other cur to find who
his master was.
"Follow your dog, Abncr Briggs" said
Master Langdon. =, :,
The stout butcher youth looked round,
but the rebels were all cowed, and sat still.
"I'll 20 when I'm ready" he said-"'n
guess won't 60 aforc I'm ready"
"You're ready now," said Master Lang
don, turning up his cuts 50 that the little
boys noticed the yellow glcam Of a pair Of
gold sleeye-buttons, once worn by Colonel
IL, kha al al,