The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1862-10-18

kindly aud you will always get a growl for
your pay. He seems to be 10 constitutional
bad humor with everybody and everything in
general and everything in particular. He
can keep whole neighborhood in an uproar.
If he is in the church, he will quarrel with
the preacher, fall oct with the leader, abuse
the members aud compel his own expulsion
for his very crossness. This dog is very mean
in the family and in society at large. The
women hate him, the children dread him,
the neighbors avoid him. The cross dog is
detestible brute.
3 There is the lazy dog.
This dog conceives that the object de-
signed in his creation was that he might eat,
sleep, and do nothing In the winter you
will find him roasting by the fire, in the
spring stretching his fat carcass in the warm
sunshine, and 10 midsummer skulking behind
the bushes to enjoy the benefit Of the shade.
The pigs may annoy you, but you cannot buy
him to drive them away. Ask him to do
anything, and if he moves at all it will be in
the opposite direction. TIE lazy dog is of no
use anywhere. He is burden TO society, a
disgrace to the church, and an incubus to
himself.
Another mean dog is the whining dog.
This dog makes day and night hideous
with his bowls. He acts as if nothing was
right. He makes everybody feel as it they
were aft ctel WITH ten tertlau agues, and the
universe itself was going to pieces. At home,
abroad, every where he whincs. lie whincs
upon all subjects and occasions. The nation
is going to ruin, the church is on the road to
destruction, the whole world is on the back
track A most uncomfortable dog is the
whining dog
5 And the barking dog is no better.
This dog is usually a whiffot. He makes
much more noise than his character Or size
justifes. His whole soul is in his tongue.
He banks about everything. The most trivial
crcum stances awakes him equally with the
most important. He banks as heartily on
suspicion as when he sees the game before
him He keeps everybody awake, and does
no possible good to himself or others.
My friends, We might enumerate several
other classes of mean dogs such as the shy
dog who bites first and barks next; the dirty
dog, who is mentally, or physically, or both,
the repository Of all unclcauess the proud
dog, who dsdains all other quadrupeds, and
the mad dog, whose notions are crazy, and
who may give you, if he bites you, the by
drophoba. But we have cnou., Ii to cucdats
our subject, and will close with word OF
application.
Take care and be not dogs yourselves.
Cure yourselves of doggish habits, that you
may be decent aud respectable.
? Don't associate with dogs Remember
it has been said, He that lies down with
dogs, will lise up with heas.
3 Keep your dogs at home, and don't let
them annoy people at meeting. Nothing is
meaner at church than the annoyance OF dogs.
Our people in Iowa are now very much
stirred up about the dog law enacted by
the late Legislature of the State, taxing all
dogs, and outlawiDg all uncolared and un-
registered members Of the canine race. The
law | have been expounding is more ancient,
OF higher authority, and of far greater con-
sequence. exhort you, therefore, to keep
1t, and beware Of dogs