The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-02-25

into the high figures of the scale; it was 3
GOOD lift. He was satisfied. He sat down
On the edge of his bed and looked at his
eleanly- shaped arms AIf Z strike one Of
those boobies, am afraid shall spoil
him. :" he said. Yet this young man, when
weighed with his class at the College, could
barely turn one. hundred and forty two
pounds in the scale-not heavy weight,
surely but some of the middle weights,
as the present English champion, for in
stance. seem to be of far finer quality of
muscle than the buikier fellows.
The master took his breakfast with good
appetite that morning; but was perhaps
rather more quiet than usual. After break
fast, he went up stairs and put on light,
loose frock. instead Of his usual dress coat,
which was a close-ftting and rather stylish
one. On his way to school he met Alminy
CUTTER. who happened to be walking in the
other direction. s"Good morning, Miss
Cutterr,', he said, for she and another young
LADY, had been introduced to him on form
er occasion. in the usual phrase of polite
society in presenting ladies to gentlemen
'sMr Langdon, let me make y acquainted
with Miss CUTTER !; let me make y acquaInt-
ed with Miss Braowne." So ne said,
stGood morning. 10 which she replied,
''Good mornin', Mr.. Lahgdon. How's
your health ?'' The answer to this ques-
ton ought naturally to have been the end
of the talk but Alminy Gutter fingered
and looked as if she had something more
on her mind. ~eeq.g 49,. 70. ,,.,.t..ff eaf..-,s.
A young fellow does not require great
experience to read simple country girls
r "a ,S-- I'd IrnIr NJ
was good soul, with red cheeks and bright
eyes-kind hearted as she could be, and it
was out of the question for her to hide her
thoughts or feelings like fine lady. Her
bright eyes were moist and her red cheeks
paler than their wont, as she said, with her
lips quiyering-.'O Mr.. Langdon, them
boys IL be the death of ye, if you don't
take caar p $3.50 ~
s.Why, what's the matter. my dear 90
said Mr.. Bernard. Don't think there was
anything very odd in that "my dear, al
the second interview with village belle
some of those women-tamers call glrl
| ..my dear' after a five minutes acquaint-
ance, and it sounds all right as they sag 1t
But you had better not try it at venture
1t sounded all right to Alminy as Mr.
Bernard said it. "1'lltell ye what's the mat.
ter" she said. in frightened voice. "Ahb-
ner's goin' to car his dog, m he'll sci
him on yez sure 'z'r' alive. IT'S the same
creatur' that half eat up Eben Squire's lit
tie 10, year come mex Faast-day.'
Now this last statement was undoubtedly
over-colored as little 10 Squires was run
ming about the village-with an ugly scar
on his arm, it is true, where the beast had
caught him with his teeth on the occasion
of the child's taking liberties with him, as
he had been accustomed to do with good
tempered Newfoundland dog, who seemed
to like being pulled and hauled round by
children. After this the creature was COM
monty muzzled, and, as he was fed on raw
meat chiefly, was always ready for fight,
which he was occasionally INDUCED in when
anything stout enough to match him could
be found, in any of the neighboring villages.
Tiger, or more briefly, Tige, the property
of Abner Briggs, Jr., belonged to species
not distinctly named in scientific books,
but well known to our countryfolks un-
der the name t'Yallah. dog They do
not use this expression as they would say
black dog or q0hite dog, but with almost as
definite meaning as when they speak of a
terrier or a spaniel. A ssyallah dog is a
large canine brute, of dingy old flannel
color, of no particular breed except his own,
who hangs round tavern or butchers
shop, or trots alongside team, looking as
if he were disguised with the world, and
the world with him. Our inland popula-
ton, 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
I'D his syallah dog" he would make bet
ter show of daylight. A country fellow,
abusing horse of his neighbours, vowed
that eff he had such boss, he'd swap him
for 'yaIlah dog and then shoot the dog"
Tige was an Unconditional brute by ma
ture, and art had not improved him by crop
ping his ears and tail, and investing him
with spiked collar. He bore on his per-
son, also, various not ornamental scars,
marks of old battles for Tige had fight in
him, as was said before, and as might be
guessed by certain bluntness about the
muzzle, with projection of the lower jaw,
which looked as if there might be bull
dog stripe among the numerous bar-sinis-
tiers of his lineage.
1t was hardly fair, however. to leave Al
miny CUTTER waiting while this piece of nat
ural history was telling. As she spoke OF
little 10, who had. been ''half eat up by
Tige. she could not contain her sympathies,
and began to cry.
"Why, my dear little soul.'' said Mr..
Bernard, "what are you worried about? I
used to play with bear when was boy;
and the bear used to hug me, and I used to
kiss him, so -
1t was too bad of Mr.. Bernard, only the
second time he had seen Alminy but her
kind feelings had touched him, and that
seemed the most natural way of expressing
his gratitude. Alminy looked round to see
if anybody was near she saw nobody, so
of course it would do no good to ''holler.''
She saw nobody; but stout young fellow,
leading q yellow doc muzzled saw her