The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1865-06-28
Dog Fight i'm FrOgtOWn.
A CAPITAL SKETCH.


lowing story which is told with great
skill 1t shows US how a whole village is
sometimes torn 20 pieces by a fight between
two puppies.
The most remarkable fight on record
came off at Frogtown, on the frontier OF
Maine, some years ago. 1t engrossed the
entire community in one indiscriminate
melee-interminable lawsuits or suits at
! law-dlstraction of the town aud It's
downfall or ruin.
A fanciful genius, named Joe Tucker
man about town, lounger without
visible means Of support--a do nothing,
| oafiug cigar smoking good nafured fellow
owned a dog a sleek. intelligent, and
rather pretty beast, always at Joe's heels
aud known as well as his master, and liked
far more by the Frogtowners. One DAY
joe and his dog were passing Buuions
grocery store, when pie bald ugly look.
ing dog standing alongside wood wagon
bounded on to Joe fuckers dog-khocked
him heels over head ,and,.so frightened Bob
Carter's wife who was passing towards
her husbands blacksmith shop with his
dinner, that she stumbled backwards, ,and
ner old sun bonnet topped off,and scared
the horse attached TO the wagon He
started, bit Latherem's barber pole, ,ppset
/ load of wood, all of which falling down
i1umbo's r9freShment cellar. struck one Of
Gumbos childoeu on the head, killed ii
| for short time stone dead and so alarmed
Mrs. Gumbo. that she dropped stew
pan Of boiling hot oysters into the lay
INSTEAD of the dlsh Of the customer. VIII,
sat waiting for the Savory concoction by
table in the corner Mrs. Gumbo rush
ed for the child the customer for the
loor. Mrs Gumbo screamed, and the
customer yelled
"Oh oh Oh oh oh, my poor child =
cried Mrs Gumbo.
"Eh, che e." screamed the poor
child"
Oh mqrder,r.r! Oh my everlasting
sir, I'm scaided TO all eternity p
Murder, muIder!' roared the poor
customer.
The herse, part cf the wagon, and
,ome wood were on their mad career
The owner of the strange dog came our
Of the store just ia time to see Joe Tuck.
er seize rock to demolish tae savage
dog aud not waiting to see Joe let drive
gave him such pop en- the back that
poor Joe fell forty feet pp the streets and
striking long ladder upon which jim
Ederby was perched, paint pot in hand,
,ome thirty feet from terra trDta brou2hr
Jim and paint pot sprawliug to the earth
crippling poor jim for life,and spriuklug
0Iue paint over the broadcloths, Satinets.
and calcoes of Abraham Miller; a for
mal aud even tempered Quaker, who ran
out Of the door just as the two dogs had
gone at it hip and thigh, nip and catch
\ glance at matters seemed to convince
Ab aham Of the true state of the case
aud 10 ar unusually elevated voice, a bra
ham called cut to Joe Tucker, who had
rghted up;
Joseph Tucker,thy dogs fghting!"
Let EN- fight it out yelled the pug
nacious owner of the strange dog. Lei
'em fight it out; I'll bet leg of wood
uy dog can beat any dog 10 town, and
can beat the owner"
We have said Abraham Miller was
quiet man Quakers are proVerbially so
But the gauntlet thrown down by the
stranger from the coutry stirred the gall
of Abraham, and ne rushed into the tore
and from the back yard, having slipped
his collar, Abraham brought forth bin
die cur, strong, low, and powerful.
Friend" eaid the excited quaker,
Thy dog shall be we'll beaten, / promise
the Hyke, seize upon hlm!
Turk, here boy
And the dogs went at it.
Bob Carter, the enith coming up in
time to hear the Strangers defiance to the
town, and bent on fight with somebody
fer the insult and damage to his wife
camped the collar ef the stranger, ard bgI
series of ten pound ten upon the face,
back. and sides of his bully antagonist,
with his natural sledge hammers, Bob
stirred up the strength and Ire Of
the bully stranger to the top of hi,
compass, and they made the sparks Ay
dreadfully.
Joe fuckers dog, reinforced by Abra-
ham MlIer's, took fresh start, aud be,
tween the two :he strange dog was being
cruelty put to his trumps Deacon Pugh,
one of the most ptcus aud Substantial men
III FrogtoHn, came up aud indeed the
whole town was Assem- bling, aud Deacon
Pugh. armed with heavy walking stick
aud shocked at he spectacle before him
marched up to the dogs ,exclaiming as he
did 50:
"Fie, 6e, for ahame disgracefuI =
you mean citizens of FrogtowD, will YOU
stand hy AUDI"