The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-06-22
Dog Gonaest Dog.
BY BRICK poMERoY.

piece OF o4cltaDl6 cteulu0 W.
Four years ago, the day alter cnap. on
the cars had the upper emu OF hls sh9 p
punched for calling US traitor, 70
Hatcher gave us that red and 6rlnale
batch of a dog. then done up small hke,
but looking so bull doggish that w
were afraid of his picture for q Week
Pc. said he was an Alabama bull 9og'
imported from, New Jersey in pasKev,
as a sample of the handsome OF tnaS
country. But he be pretty purp ns
tail is no longer than wicked "an
knraver. and was full as stunnin! Anu
those ears. They looked like the small
corner of a plug of tobacco. ana sucn
eUes And such eyebrows! When he
,yas lint a child so called, some monster
INST have slung against stonewall, for
His avelids looked like Ben. Buffers,
snrt,r shaned of something! His jaws
we're pretty jaws. They were 80 severe
in their angies--there was so much jaw
in proportion to the purp, that we want.
| ed to call him Swisshelm, but he wasn't
that kind of pet But he was nigh
onto all jaw. -
| We kept him four weeks in the sane
| tum, and all the time hired a niger to
watch him. IIe'd steal-steal is no
| name for it. So we concluded to call
him John Brown. And he kept the Mig
/ Ger mighty busy watching him, till at
| last the niger being such STUART, min
Ticky educational cuss, got so much
worse nor the dog, that wa kept the dog
to watch the niger, Egad! wasn't IL a
full team? Strange how nlggers Will
learn things.
And he was the hungriest dog we ever
saw. A penny worth OF beef didn't last
him as long az ten dollar bill would a
/ Democrat the night before election he
had fine voice for beef And what the
dog would not eat the niger would
| And the dog grew large and ponderous
about the Jaws He used to eat papers,
books, mats, old hats, gloves, patent
leather boots, window curtains and SIGH.
He ate such stuff for desert. That dog
ate o full calfbound set Of Ha,pef's
Veeklv one day, just on account OF the
: calf And he ate ten copies OF the Chi
eago Tribune one day, but the lies in
them papers made him so og.goned
sick ali that week, that he would haze
died if the niger in 'em hadn't eme
licked 'em ont, and so got we'll But he
never pinned himself to shadow banker.
ing after Republican newspapers any
more. And he kept on stealing. We
? always thought them Republican news
| papers aided in the development OF
that complaint for he was sure to steal
all the niger earned for u.s..
He'd walk out on rainy day for his
health and always come back with
something he mad found. Once it was
a ladys veil Then it was half ham,
with butchers knife sticking IN it.
What he wanted to bring the knife with
him for is more than we know, unless he
had to cut and run. One day he came
in with a baby's cradle There was
some blood on the edge of it, and all that
afternoon the hell man was out ringing
bell and yelling "boy lost = John
> Brown didn't 20 out for two or three
/, DAYS! Once he came in with q wooden
> leg in his teeth. That night wooden
l legged soldier was missing, but, as Grip
7 pled soldiers are of no account, he didn't
D try 10 keep shy bit. He brought III
the leg, no doubt thinking it the kind o
clnb we like fer the La. Crosse Democrat
And he used to find money! He'd e
into Il store a, d snatch greenbacks out
l of cash dra OF just as handy! Ont
day he came in with contribution box
, he'd stolen fro hi the entry way of close
communion church.
1 He carried tie box behind the end o
J, the sideboard, hroke itopen-and LOOKED
: sick John 81 wn never stole cOntrl
8 button box az ,in, and after that, when
4 we'd point to that box and smile, he d
= drop his tail, vi hat there was Of it, anC
+ look lust llk, Ben. Butler does when
having his picture taken. And he'd
steal halters, brides, saddles and such
stuff Aud us he grew older, he'd actu
, ally unhitch horse, and lead him across
the line into n unesota. When any one
wonll call out John Brown he'd 60
for = horse, ;ure. And so.we had to
chan 20 his nal r. What to call the cuss
we didn't know But as he had chawed
up 50 many be- Ks, and was always med.
ding with wh.'L was none of his bust
ness, and grew 20 be sort of romantic
aud RADICAL d 4ut his bloody jaws, we
left off calling him john Brown, and
called him Charles Sumner. For awhile
he seemed to like it, He was an ambi-
tious dog, and TO keep his name good,
meddled with SD much that was none of
his business that at last be got a dog
goned caning which 60 affected his
back bone that we had II send for Anna
| Dickinson. After she strengthened up
Ibis spinal yerte brR, LIE howled and rant
ed around so, e had to change his name
again
So we called him General Curtis Aud
that seemed to please him nightly. He'd
stand on his hind legs, poke the hair out
of his eyes. AMI when he went out doors,
strut bout as though be was going TO
fight Pea Ridge battle! And what no
tioe he'd take at mules He became en-
amored OF mules, and often would lead
them 10 the outskirts of the city and hide
them in the bushes. And he grew into
such u taste Tor cotton! Never was a
dorg 50 fond of cotton. Twasn't safe for
half the ladies when out promenadiug in
| full costume e. meet that dorg in the
street In fac he had such a love for
cotton.that it asn't safe to let him walk
on the street, Ii r go in the sanctum, nor
go to any place, so we called him General
Siegel That fetbered him He had
tough time OF tt. Gracious, how he'd
twist his jaws aud bark And he loved
to get into de- fight. too. He'd whip
any dog in the city. But it took so long
to get him into fight that he was use,
less You see when we wanted him to
fight one dog, we'd set him on another,
and then he'd back into the tother one,
and then fight his way out. But it took
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