Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1862-03-01
Sut Lovegoo1's Dog.

"No, Sut, no. "a we knows on -
you've mixed up log so in AL yer ,
ings that we can't tell adzactly what
dog scrape you mean"
"Well, mean old 'Stufgut.' Did
eny ov you ever see him p
"No.'
"Wen, We missed site. He wur q
powerful dog, AMI som atim"s ye'd think
tha, he wnr two or three dogs, II ye'd
see him eat; not a countin' Owe his
tail, for he hadn't eny. When he wur
3 pup, Dad, darn him, took him to a
straw-cu'ter, jammed his starn close
up to the frame ov the cusssd gullotin,
and fotch down the nite, and there lay
the whole tail in the trott, like a letter
S, and here run the pup yonlln like
hound, and his starn looked like ye'd
bustid ripe tomatiS onto it. Well, 1t
changed his looks mitelv, and his ma
tur more Now IS to his looks, rite on
to the spot where his tail orter staid,
there growed bunch of stiff, ash cul
lercd bri>tlcs, what pinted every way
like onto split broom with the rappln
cut loose, and rite in the middle ov all
this fusSey lnokin patch ove har, the
pint owe his backbone, kivered with a
gristil, stuck out like onto Il pidcin's
aig, Gaze he sot onto it so much. Well,
the affair looked mitev sassy ani fite
like, cny how, particularly when he
wur <truttin up to 4 big strange dog
tn smell ovc him 1t made his starn
look hicr than his shoulders, perpcn-
diculur and Squar; and he he'd = way
ove waikin slow and solnm, like Eve
seed young felIers do at camp mcetin,
when epproachin owe n gall at 4 spring
with their stu ,hoss close OF, arwine
sorter sideways ami mitev keorfni. -
I've seed little hogs q through the
same motions, wrn iii 4 peach orchard
aud the other in a lan", when t'ta thnt
tha wanted to titc, ari wui dun it
hnt for tho fenae thr: war atW"en nm.
I never found out he wur good for cnv-
.hur but to kcpc bred from moldcin
anl n,oto from srilin; and when be
wanted to sho glad, as he had M tail
70 wag, he wtggh1 his hole stern, AMI
his hind feet slipped about on tn"
g:ound, sortcr like a fashunabil gall
walks when she thinks sum feller il a
loolIin at her. He wur cullered adzac-
w like a mildewcd sadil skirt, and he
carrid his ear on 4 noin sort of = cock.
like onto a mules when he is skcarcd.
U,'d whiskers round his ewes and on
his hinc legs, anil must have hal Il
powerful active conShince, for h" wur
me mecncst countrnanccd dog | ever
seeind my life. Now rs to his natnr,
Won couldn't never set him onto env-
thin2 you wanted tn, AMI you couldn't
never call him of ov anything he gpt
arter on his own accord. IL wur
skeered Ill the time, AMI stud ready to
run or steal rs the chance might be :;
and ta,<in him altogether he was Just
the rite sort or dog to belong to me-
not wurth darn, and ortor 3 been
killed afore his eyes got open.
"W ell, Stutfsnt, he fnllcred me to
town wun day, just Gaze | didn't want
him tu; and while wur gett,n OH u
he'd ov steem at the doggery, he start
cd round town on q steelin eXperdl-
sion owe his own, and like his ciisSed
fool owner, got hiSself into Scrape
and skare without h If irving, AM in
less nor no time ut that | he'd gin my
self shake IN the dog rcry, and porei
the whisky in me slo$h. | knowed |
he'd nv load aboard, 50 | cum out in
ter the street an-the-fust thing |
.eed he cum tearin down the street
fifteen times faster than | thot he cud
run, list a BLOWN of hisself, his ears
eot fiat onto his neck, AMI his brlstles
all sot like a black peroh's top fin.
his eyes shut up fast and tite. and he
mad on 4 sort ov harniSs made outer
strings, sorter like the set D,1 wore
when he acted boss, AMI he wur haul
in ov an old stage lantern ana it tiile;l
with wet powder and sot atire. Now
.hc sparks and the seizlin AMI the dust
AMI rattlin, an / the youlin an-s srowI-
in and barkin, AMI the eightynine OF
ninety dogs owe al kinds that wur s
chasin owe him made sum scnsashnn
Well-it did. Whew-w-w. When
seed him pass without nowin me thot
owe Daa's hornet trihulation, and felt
there wur such thing rs retributior
at last; and then I got mad, and look
ed for sum WIN to vent nv rath on
and seed iong-lecged cuss. sorter ~
the Lovego,d stripe, with his hat cock
ed afore, sitting straddel owe ,~s
rack, swinging his legs and sing
fng-
r., az Hsyv daddy sh0t a bar.
Shot him in the eve. and never tech bar
81 seed it wur my best chance Il
breed fite, so ! Jest lent him a slath
ering calamity rite wbar his snopt be