Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1869-07-08
THE DIFFICULTY ABOUT THAT DOG.

This was the cause or all the trouble.
Losr.-On the 10th instant, small Terrier dog,
with brass collar upon his neck, and the tip. OF
his tail gone Answers to the name OF Jack.
Five dollars reward will be given to the person who
returns him to John Quill. No. "a RToKETY Row.
I inserted the above in the Daily Fipfap, in
the hope that might recover the animal, to which
| was much attached. The Nipaap goes to press
at 5 A. NJ. At halfpast six was awakened by
pull at my door.bell. got out and opened the
window. As looked out saw man standing
in my front yard with mongrel dog tied to rope.
He gazed up and observed:
"Hello are you the fellow who lost dorg?'
Eyes am.'
"Well, then, I've fetched him" said the man.
I then explained to this wretched human being
that my dog was terrier, while his looked more
like log of wood with half the bark off and prop
ped up on four sticks, than dog ofany kind.
''Well, amt you going to take him?'
II wouldn't have him as a gift. And want you
| to move of now, or III call the police.
"Now, I guess you think you're smart, don 7
you? I'd bust you over the jaw for five cents. ]
would. You don't know good dorg when you see
| him, you don't" and he went out after ripping
the palings off the fence.
| In about half an hour there was another ring at
the bell went down. There was man with six
dogs of variety of breeds.
"Wh-wh-which of ems him, b-bboss," said
this fellow, for he suffered as if he would strangle
on small syllable.
Neither of them
"Y-you said his n-na-name was J-Jack, d-didn't
you?"
"Yes, that's it.
"W-well then, wh.wh-what dye call th-that p
says he, as he sung out "Jack, and the whole siz
dogs looked up and wagged their tails like lot o
spawned oxen in fly time.
"Why, I call it confounded nonsense to expect
me to take the whole six dogs because they yre
named Jack. I don't want to start sausage mill
you understand. Mince meat isn't in my line
"W-w-w-wel amt you going to take him p
Certainly not, do you suppose I am gibber
ing idiot?"
"W-w-w-well, you sh-shant have him now i
YOU want him. w-w-w-wouldn't trust decen
d.d-dog with NJ man like you, anyway
And the six CANNES fell into line and trotted dow1
the street after him.
I had not got fairly into the house before there
was another ring. Seedy looking man with 1
semi-decayed yellow dog. His ribs stuck out so
that he looked as if he had gorged himself with {
spiral spring.
"You advertise for a dog, I believe. Well,
caught him around here in the ally, after des
perate struggle. Fine dog, sir. -
"Weu, don't think he is He looks to me a
fhe wasn't WELL He is too ethereal for this world
young man, depend upon it. y
"Not at all, sir Only shedding his coat sir; al
good dogs do at this time of the year. See that
SIR" said this seedy Caucasian, holding the dol
by the cuff of the neck. ''See how he yelps
that sign of pluck; that dog would fight mil
lion wild cats, he would, and lick 'em too, sir.
"Get out!'' exclaimed, and the dog put hi
tail between his legs and ran for the gate.
"See that, sir? see that p said the man, as h'
! seized him, ''that's sign he's well trained; NJ