Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1871-07-27

Don't.Itell you it is' , Didn't 20
say the top of his tail was gone a.? We
just look at him, will youS
We'll, I won't have him anyhow
| you want to cheat me, do you P
| I'll fix You. S-sick him, Bull sal
this outrageous ruffiap, as the dog He,
at me, giving me barely time to &c
inside and shut the door on his front
ispiece. l guess squeezed the smel
ling apparatus off of that dog. Blu
the man, he. cursed me for about fiv
minutes, and then flung brick at til,
door, and went away, mad.
| In less than twenty minutes another
ring. Small pock-marked man in Q
red shirt, this time. Had speckled
dog that looked as il. 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
for9 Well, here he is
% pshawr said l, you know that
isn't my dog stEE
'Yor'r names Quill amt it p
TT u.s. said 1.
well, then, this here is the dog
He's the best ratter you ever seem
Sings them around like he was chaw-
ing beef, he does, and
But he is not my dog
And he is a bully watch dog. Look
at him Look at him how he's watch
ing now Why he'll sit there and
watch and watch, until he goes stone
blind, he will. He'll watch all night
if you only let him. guess I'll just
chain him up while you go and get
the "
NO you needn't, said I. FIJI blow
his brains out if you don't take him
away
We'll, say, stranger, I'm little
strapped to-day; just lend me FIVE on
him this morning, will you9 I'll pay
you tomorrow
See here, now, you just drop out of
here, or I'll take the hide off of YOU
I said, for 1 felt mad, you know.
'Awl you amt worth cent, you
actually amt said the pock-marked
man, as he walked off, after clipping
the dog over the head with one of my
fence palings, and then putting his fin
gers up to his own nose.
Not minute after up comes a man
with a mastiff as big as o small
horse.
Say, boss, I want that fve,' was all
that he remarked, by way of intro
lucing the subject.
We'll, you can't get it, and if you
lon't leave I'll call the police 1 ex-
claimed in despair.
Watch him Zip said the man, in
SANITY, and the dog few at me, threw
ne down and bit slice OF muscle out |
If my leg, and diS6gured my nose for
life. Then the assassin who owned
him called him of and went away
l didn't answer any more rings that
lay, but about four o'clock in the af-
.ernoon / looked out of the second
story window, and the yard wasfull Of
men with all kinds of dogs. Black
dogs, white dogs, yellow dogs, varie-
gated dogs, fea-bitten dogs, dogs with
tails, dogs without tails, rat terriers,
bull-pups, poodles, fox hounds, span
iels, Newfoundlands, mixed breeds,
pointers, settlers, and a multitude of
other varieties, all growing, yelping,
barking, swapping, and jumping about
until there wasn't fower-pot left in
the place, and the noise was worse
than menagerie at meal time.
l haven't got my dog yet. 1 don't
care if l never see another dog be-
tween this and the silent grave. /
only wish that all the dogs from here
10 Kansas were collected into a Con-
vention, and had hold Of that man
with the mastiff, that they might gnaw
on him until he hadn't a morsel Of
meat left on his skeleton. That Is all
I want in the dog line in this world.
A Miracle Of Honesty.