Weekly Trinity journal., 1870-03-05
q41sekIy Grinity 5uurnal.
The DimouIty About that Dog


brass collar his neck and the tip OF his tail gone
be given person who returns hlm to John Quill No.
AS Rckety Row.
the hope that | might recover the animal to
which | was much attached. The FApfdp goes
TO press at A. At half-past six | was
awakened by pull at my door-bell. got out
of bed and opened the window. AS looked out
] saw man standing in my front yard with a
mongrel dog tied to a rope. He gazed up and
observed
" Hello / say, are you the feller who lost a
dorg?"
Yes am"
Well, then, I've fetched him" A" said the man
then explained to this wretched human be-
ing that my dog was a terrier, while his looked
more like log of wood with half the bark
knocked of and propped up on four sticks, than
a dog of any kind.
" Well, amt you going to take him ~
al wouldn't have him as a gift. And want
you to move off now, or | Il call the police"
"Now guess you think you're smart don t
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 rip
ping the pailings off the fence.
In about a-balf hour there was another ring at
the bell. went down. There a man with
six dogs of variety of breeds.
Wb-wh-which of ems him. b-b-boss, ;" said
this feller, for he suffered as if he would stran-
gle on small syllable.
"Nether of them"
"Y-you said his n-na-name was J-Jack,
d-didn't your"
- Yes, that's it,"
"W-well then wh-wh-what do you call tn
thatP' says he, as he sung out Jack, and the
whole six dogs looked up and wagged their tails
like lot of spawned oxen in fly time.
Why, call it coniounded nonsense to ex-
pect me to take the whole six dogs because
they're named Jack. | don't want to start
sausage mill, you understand. Mince meat ism t
in my line"
"W-well amt you goin' to take bm?'
Certainly not; do you suppose that | am a
gibbering idio.Y'
W-w-well, you sh-shan't have him now if
you want him. | w-w-wouldn't trust a decent
d-dog with m-man like you, anyway"
And the six CANNES all fell into line and trot-
ted down the street after him.
had not fairly got into the house before there
was another ring.
Seedy looking man with a semi-decayed yellow
dog. His ribs stuck out so, that he looked as if
he had gorged himself with spiral spring.
. You advertised for dog believe. Well,
caught him around here in the alley, after a
desperate struggle. Fine dog sir"
Well, don't think he is. He looks to nae
as if be wasn't well. He is too ethereal for this
world, young man, depend upon it,"
oh, not at all sir. Only shedding his coat
sir all dogs do it at this time of year. See that
sir, said this seedy Caucasier, holding the dog
by the cuff of the neck. "See how he yelps ;
that's sign of pluck that pluck would fight
million wild cats, he would, and lick em too
SIR"
g Get out p' l exclaimed, and the dog put his
tail between his legs and ran for the gate.
- See that sir? see that?" said the man, as he
seized him, " that's sign he's well trained no
raw dog behaves like that, want you to know
Now, spose you fork over that FIVE"
" Not much cont want him my friend"
"Wont do it? WELL then, take him for
seyenty-fve cents, and say more about it,
He's valuable animal. You'll never get
another such chance.
:" tell you won't have him."
Well, don't them" said this man as he
kicked the animal over on my flower pots and
broke three of them, while the brute dashed
madlv down the middle of the street.
IN then big rutfian 10 a slouch hat came
up with bulldog, sprung in the knees, and
lamenting the entire loss of his tail. When the
ruiian spoke to him he wagged the whole of
the last half of him
I" brought that there dog, was the observa-
ton made by the rutian, "and I'll finger them
there stamps, reckon"
MY friend, said |, " that is not my dog"
/" Yes it is though"
90 But it is not"
"Don't tell you it is2 Didn't you say the
tip of his tail is gone? Well, just look at him
will you 2"
"Well, won't have him anyhow"
" You want to cheat me, do youl III fix you.
Sick him, Bull ~ said the outrageous ruffian, as
the dog hew at me- giving me barely time to get
inside and shut the door on his frontispiece. /
guess squeezed the nose of that dog. But the
man cursed for about five minutes anc the slung
brick at the door and went away.
In less than twenty minutes another ring.
small ,pock-marked man in red shirt, this time.
Had speckIed dog that looked as if he had
been out without an umbrella when it was rain
ing ink. Says this victim of the smallpox:
" You know that dog you advertised for, we'll,
here he is.'
"Oh pshaw p said ], "you know that isn't
my dog
" Your names Quill, amt it2"
" 1t is, said |.
'Well, then, this here is the dog He's the
best ratter you ever Slings them around
like he amusin hissef he does and
% But he is not my dog"
"And he is bully watch dog. Look at him
Look at him nOw-he's watching now. Why
he I'll 81: there and watch and watch, until he
goes stone blind, he will. He'll watch all night
If you only let him. You never see a watcher
like him. guess III jest chain him up while
you go in and get the ""
"No you needn't" said l. "IIl blow his
brains out if you don't take him away"
well, say, stranger, I'm a little strapped to-
DAY jest lend me five on him this morning
will your I'll pay Tomorrow"
!" See here, now, you just get out of here, or
I'll take the hide off of you" | said, for be-
gan to get excited, you know
" Aw you amt worth a cent, you actually
ain't," said the pock-marke man. as he walked
off, after clipping the dog over the head with
one OF my palings, and then putting his fingers
TO his nose. Not minute after, up comes a
man with a mastitf as big as a small horse
90 Saw. hOsg | that Hve - uvas all ha
marked, by way of introducing the subject
"Wel you can't get it,, and if you don leave
I'll call the poIics, exclaimed in dispair.
I" Watch him, Zip" said the man instantly,
and the dog flew at me, threw me down, and bit
slice of muscle out of my leg, and disfgured
my nose for life. Then the assassin who owned
him called him off and went away laughing.