Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-05-25


crHr fa. .t and sense Of dignity. besides
6is fear OF losing his friend Ia vain fear y
forbade, and as the decision of character
Of each was great and nearly equal, it
was often drawn game. Toby ultimate
", by making 1t his entire object, triumph
ed. He usually was nowhere 10 be seen
on my fathers leaving; he however saw
him, and lay in wait at the head of the
street, and up Leith Walk he kept him In
view from the opposite side like detec-
1--WE, and then, when he knew it was hope
Les to hound him home, he crossed I'M
-bleshingly over. and Joined company,
excessively rejoiced of course. a5sa
scharch. and left him at the vestry door.
The second psalm was given out, and my
father was sitting back in the pulpir, when
from the vestry, was seen to move, and
gently open; then, after long pause, a
bisch shining snout pushed its way steadi-
" into the congregation, and was follow
ed by Toby's entire body. He looked
some what abashed, but shutting his friend
he advanced as if on thin ice, and not
seeing him, put his forelegs on the pulpit
and behold there he was. his own familiar
chum. watched all this, and anything
more beautiful than his look of happiness,
Of comfort, of entire ease when he be-
held his friend-the smoothing down of
the anxious ears, the swing of gladness
Of that mighty tail--I don't expect soon to
see. Ny father quietly opened the door,
and Toby was at his feet and invisible to
all but himself had he sent old George
Peaston, the ministers man. to put him
ont, Toby would probably have shown his
teeth, and astonished George. He skunk
home as soon as he could, and never re-
peated that exploit.
never saw in any other dog the sud-
den transition from discretion, not to say
abject cowardice, to blazing and perma-
nent valor From his earliest years he
showed q general meanness of blood, in
,herited from many generations of starved
bekicked and down-trodden forefathers anc
mothers, resulting in condition of in
tense abjectness in all matters of persona
fear; anybody, even beggar, by Il gov
and threat of the eve, could send him
out bowling by anticipation, with tina,
mighty tail between his legs. But it was
not always so to be, and had the privil-
eye Of seeing courage-reasonable, abso-
lutte, and for life-spring up in Toby al
once. as did Athene from the skull oil
Jove. 1t happened thus:
Toby was in the way of hiding his cul-
mary bones in the small gardens before
his own and neighboring doors. Mr..
Scrymgeour, two doors off, bulky, chol-
eric, red-haired, red-faced man-terro rul-
,ta--was, by the law of contrast, great
culuvator of flowers, and he often scowled
Toby into all but non-existence by stamp
of his loot and glare OF his eye. One
day, his gate being open, in walks Toby
with huge bone, and, making hole
where Scrymgeour had two minutes be-
fore been planting some precious slips the
name of which, on paper and on sticks.
Toby made very light of-substituted his
bone. and was engaged covering it, or
thinking he was covering it up with his
shovelling nose Ga very odd relic of par
adise in the dog.) when S. spied him
through the inner glass door, and was out
upon him like the Assyrian, with terri
bic gowl. l watched them. Instantly
Toby made straight at him, with roar
occurs. who, retreating without reserve,
tell PROSTATE, there is reason to believe, in
his own lobby. Toby contented himself
with proclaiming his victory at the door,
and returning. finished his bone-planting
At his leisure-the enemy who had scuttled
behind the glass door, glaring at him.
From this moment Toby was an altered
dog. Pluck at the first sight was lord oil
all from that time dated his first tremen-
dous deliverence of tail against the door
which we called "come listen to my tail
That very evening he paid a visit to Leo
next doors dog-a big, tyrannical bully
and coward, which its master thought !
Newfoundland, but whose pedigree VIZ
knew better. This brute continued the
same system Of chronic determination
which was interrupted at Lochend--hav
ing Toby down among his feet, and threat
ening him with instant death two or three
times day. To him Toby paid vsi
that very evening. down into his den, anc
walked about, as much as to say "Comt
on, Macduffw but Macduff did not come
on. and henceforward there was an armed
neutrality and they merely stiffened up
and made their backs rigid, pretended
each not to see the other, waking sol
emily round, as is the manner of dogs
Toby worked his new-found faculty thor
oughly, but with discretion He killed
cats. astonished beggars, kept his own
garden against all corners, and came off
victorious in several well-fought battles I;
but he was not quarrelsome or foolhardy
1t was very odd how his carriage changed
holding his head up, and how much pleas
anter he was at home. To my father
next to William, who was his Humane So
ciety man, he remained staunch Ant
what of his end for the misery of dog.
is that they die so soon, or rs Sir Walter
says, it is well they do for if they lvec
as long as Christian, and we liked then
in proportion, and they then die, he sal,
that was a thing he could not stand
His exit was miserable, and had
strange poetic or tragic relation to his en-
trance. My father was out of town;
was away in England. Whether il wa,
that the absence of my father had relaxed
his power of moral restraint, or whether
through neglect of the servant he had beer
desperately hungry, or most likely boil
being true, Tobey was discovered will
the remains of cold leg of mutton, OIL
which he had made an ample meal. Thi:
he was in vain endeavoring to plant, as o