Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1863-12-21


lineage or his own, 1 was one day brought
up in front OF old Trinity, by seeing in
p the arms of rather dilapidated old gent,
that which appeared to my longing eyes
as Just the article,-a small, dirty, sharp
eyed, (no doubt the result of anxious
looking at meal time) untailed, shaggy
beauty, his ears raced to the finest
point of professional Skill and his hair,
such as pointed in any direction, stand
ing directly toward said ears.
Asked old gent if he knew doggy's
pedigree. Didn't he and the children
raise the same since he was pup, from
Carroty Mikes slut, in Baxter street,
and didn't the same mother of the pup
win the match for fifty dollars between
her and one-eyed Corrigan's black and
tan, and of course everybody knew one
eyed Corrigan I didn't, but was per
fectly satisfied, and closed with old gent /
by giving him five dollars for the animal, /
whose name, he further informed me, was
Nip, and of which fact | had the most |
feeling evidence before had carried him |
block, by his planting two rows of sharp |
teeth in the feshy part of my hand, be-
cause would not let him run away TO |
be sold to some other fancier by the |
T same master again. | was flash on that
49, game, and pardoned the bite as an evil !
dence of spirit, but guarded against the |
reception of any more spiritual favors by |
choking him nearly dead before | got
home with him. Took him in the back
parlor so that wife chad one) could see
my prize Wife said she did not think
it was pretty dog.
q Didn't think much of her opinion of
dogs, especially ratters, which are not
IL r r e
said that he did not look clean, and
might have bad tricks, which SANDER l
refuted by telling her that he was raised
in a family of small children, (she in
terrupted me by saying that his hair
looked as if he had been shampooned
every day in the gutter by a family of
small children and was about posting
her On doggy's pedigree, when she sud-
denly raised window, bolted at Nip,
(Eho in his simplicity had mistaken the
leg of one of wife's best chairs for a
lamp-post,) seized him by the hind leg
and quietly threw him in the yard, not,
however, until he had given wife on her
left arm the same acknowledgment Of
her courtesy as he had given me fer
holding him. Now, WHEY IS the Inildest,
sweetest little morsel that man was ever
biased with, but her mad was Up, and
between her arm and that chair, she
vowed that she would massacre that
brute If he ever looked into the parlor
.fsa again
Tried to argue the point by telling her
that little arnica would soon heal her
ia arm, and little furniture polish the
chair; but Nip had made failure for
his debut, and it was no go. After dim
ner, however, noticed Nip very busy
over a plate in the yard, and when |
asked about his appetite, wife said he
had eaten nearly four quarts in quantity
and tried to bite the "help" when she
took away his plate. inwardly chuck
s-sa led when thought how such grit would
astonish the rats, but kept down my
ebullitions until such time as 1 could
procure live rat and exhibit Nip's quail
Il tiles as ratter, to the complete over
throw of those unfortunate first impress
sions. That night, after we had retired
that dog howled SO Internally in The
backyard that was obliged to 60 dowr
and let him in the house After anothe
doze, the bell struck for the seventh
and in hurrying out of my bedroom tt
catch Big Six before she got to Chatham
Square, I went headlong over some OF
ject which yelp, snap and growl in
formed me was Nip, who had improves
on his admission by coming up and y
ing against the bedroom door.
Wife said that if the Fire Department
didn't kill me that the dog would SO sh
arose and escorted him down the stairs
though | do not think the dog mad
more than two steps of the entire figh
and on one of those he landed on hi
back Next morning at breakfast, do
came in the basement; fed him. VII
said that if I had a child l would nj
pay it so much attention as 1 did tn:
dog. If had a child. Looked wis
fully at wife
However, the next day was so 70
tunate as to secure from a boy in Il
market fine old-line bob-tailed ra
whose furious efforts to chaD everythir
p within reach, gave promise OF gloriol
sport for Nip. Took the rat home, ca
ed in my dog, and told my wife that
she wanted to see the way that terrie
did rats. to come down in the basemer
She came down and shut the door, ju
in time, too; for as Nip saw the rat,
Nip, my ratter, for which paid the o
gent five dollars, made a most unmista
ably cowardly movement toward the ha
Wife, on chair, said the dog did n
appear to see the rat
Told wife to keep her breath Thong
would not give Nap any reason for n
seeing the rat again, so tied the stril
that held the rat to dogs hind leg
sdu the rat that time, and jumped
the chair By wife. Wife laughed a
showed him off, Tried the stove ne,
Got off the stove without being shove
The rat, however, being an old stag
and not being used to such treatme
-'- made demonstration on Nips rear, a
don't believe little Flora Temple e'
made better time in the same lin
than that dog and rat made aroEnd I
fEiC room First heat, dog had the lie;
sla closely followed by rat, who, on striki
the halfmile pole (footstool in the c
nerl, broke badly; in fact, nearly bro
- his hack, and before he could
s.s.s brought down Che was sliding on
back5 dog led him in the whole LEM
of the string. Didn't stop for wind,
started OF on second heat. Got off "
together (tied) and went finely arou
neck and tail, until they reached
.sljudges stand (wife standing on cha
s4i against which dog brought up SO
bringing the judge down in style ]
eminently sudden, if not dignifed L
heat was decided against dog you may
and it was only after much persuas
that the judge would again take
stand
The third heat may be aptly tern
dead heat. They got off as well az
as the dog conveniently could, and s
ed lively until just as they struck
ast quarter, when the rat, which
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