The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-03-27
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~And 50 they yelp-the chorus from the mountain to the sea-
Mr. EprroR I've had another night with the
dogs, and that involves a somewhat different expert
ence from having " a day with the hounds" such as
you read Of in British sporting annals.
They say "eyery dog has his day;'-that's all
right, let him have i'll never objected to a dogs
having his day. don't know that I've ever thrown
an obstacle in the way Yet of any dogs having his
day-he can have rs many days as he has a mind to
for all me-in fact, FL cheerfully give the dog COM
munity my ablest support, to the end that they may
have every day in the year, and won't be particu-
larry eXacting about how they keep Sunday, if
they'll only let up nights-there's where the trouble
comes in, you see. Every dog in my neighborhooi
not only has his day but he has his night also; and
don't he know how to make the most of it, rather.
Don't he know just exactly where to rendezvous SO
as to meet the other dogs, and don't they all know
where there's a nervous man to be kept awake
where there's n cross baby to be walked up-where
there's a cat to be worried-where Bill, the butchers
dog "Tige," can meet and have his little tiff out
with Tom, the BARRIERS dog : Pete where, in fact,
a dog-carnival can be held at any hour of the night.
OF course they do, and that's why they come right
where l live. As Mark Twain says, they've got
the bulge ON me" and they know it-and ever since
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day, they've shown a dogged determination to get
even with me.
There's one particular dog I'm after; he lives
right over in one of the back yards, about fifty yards
of. L know just exactly the spot where he plants
himself when he begins his evening hymn, and I've
: gone for" him twenty times, but never, never
have l yet succeeded in getting a sight at him.
Now, I've had considerable military experience-in
flct, l might say that l hold 4 Brigadier's commits
sion, but who would believe me-and I've exhausted
military tactics ON that brute-Fve tried all sorts of
flank movements on him; I've escaladel, and
scarped, and counter-scarped, ricochetted; tried
him by platOons-tried to pierce his centre, if you
know what that is-and finally, as Il forlorn hope,
. went for him in line-bee-line. But no use; he
seems to have an intuitive knowledge that there's n
. big injun - on the war-path for his scalp, and in
continently gifts"
Once 1 thought l had him. 1t was on a moonlight
night; l had surrounded him, as l thought-that is,
l had come in on his rear, by taking a circuitOus
route over one taro patch, across a church-yard,
through three picket-fences and one adobe wall, over
which 1 fell, Distinctly 1 could see the Gu brute
upon the very spot where l expected to find him: ap-
parently he was throwing up entertainments in an
~ticipation of an attack in front. He was earnest,
but quick-so was l, us with deadly intent, and a
rock in each hand, 1 made the assault. Like an
avalanche, ike anything, in fact, that would sym
bolize concentrated rage, 1 was upon him-to find
myself Strengthened out the next minute by the
horns of Il big billy-goat tied to the fence. Sadly 1
gathered up my shattered forces, and retreated to
my quarters demoralized. And so it has been on
every occasion. But I know the dog-everybody in
town knows him; he pervades the town through the
day, and can't be mistaken. His left ear has been
Ohio ural of ou1 iS in a cbroOic Stora Of cora. his ,jov
ter ear pendant over a wall-eye, gives him a sinister
look. He has about three inches of stub tail exactly
horizontal with his backbone, and his color is &c yal-
ler.' If you ever lose a beef steak off of your
gridiron, he's the dog that takes it; should your
favorite cat or chicken disappear of a night, he
knows where it went to. He's ubiquitous-you'll
find him in front of any butcher-shop in town, at
any hour of the day; you, see him lying under
eyerybody's fence everywhere; and I'll just give two
dollars and n half for that dogs scalp, and no ques-
tons asked; but there'll be no use in trying to fool
me with any other dogs char" for I'll know the
right one at once. 81
There's another one right across the street, that's
a prize brute too, in his way. Now, l respect my
~neighbor who owns him, and we have always been
on social terms; but L give him fair notice, that if
he wishes to retain that respect, and has any desire
to continue the amicable relations which now exist
between us, he must part with that dog. It's a
little animal, n black and tan, - but not half SO
much BACKED and tanned as he would be if 1 had
my way.
I'm an early riser in spite of the dogs, and every
morning as 1 go out upon the street, there sits that
little wretch opposite in my neighbours gate, with an
smirk on his face, winking and blinking as
if he'd just turned out after n good nights sleep, to
n sniff of the morning air; and he gives a wag of
the tail, and throws an impudent leer at me, as if to
say = good morning, n~eighbor, 1 hope you had a
good nights reSt'-the cunning little cuss-asi if l
didn't know that he was the very one that started in
night at 10 o'clock, and never let up till 4 O'Clock
this morning. Yours, BARKER.