Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-04-10


natured fellow, If he did have such a name
and it's my opinion he feltmore like laugh
ing. At any rate, he soon made a friend
of little Puss, and let her play with his
long handsome ears and tail. They used
to eat from the same plate, and the large
dog was trained to wait till the small Cat
had helped herself
| One day be came home from fight badly
| hurt, and though he was so Wild with
pain it would have been dangerous for
stranger to be near him, he he'd himself
still with noble patience to let mis- kind
mistress, Mrs. Newton, sew up the wound.
/ Y on must not think it was perfectly easy
aud natural for Nero to be good, any more
than it is for little folks Of another race.
/ He was carefully trained to 1t, praised
When he did well and punished wnen he
did not.
He never lost anything trusted to him
but twice. One Of those times it was a
pair Of slippers, which slipped out Of his
mouth somehow, as he was coming over =
railroad bridge. Poor Nero searched that
/ bridge all over aud would not venture
home tor hours, and had to take a whip
ping when he did, while there were the
mIschievous slippers, all the time, away
! down below the bridge, hidden in the gr4s,
at the edge Of the river
Speaking Of this loss reminds me of an
odd bewiIdermeut Topeka dog got into
not long since. He was terrier, and "A
great rat-hunter. One day, as he WIS
IN his masters store, a mouse jumped down
/ from a shelf and darted along the floor.
+ l. Il.
Mousie lodged in and out. and hnaI }
leaped into = great earthern buttcrJa ar
that had just been emptied. There be was
safe as ID a stone tower the dog cou
not get at him but the mouse did not
/ feel 50 sure of that he could MT be com
Portable with those fiery eyes gIIring at
him from above He raced around aud
around his refuge, and tried TO climb its
walls, but, besides being steep, they Were
slippery with butter and could MT be
,ca.ed. Suddenly one Of the men looking
on tipped down the jar and be darted-
where do you think down that dog
throat The terrier stood waiting, open
mouthe5, greedy, aud the moment tue jan
was tipped, that buttered mouse went down
his throat without either Of them knowing
it! The dog was couioundcj Where
had that mouse gone No game had ever
before escaped him 50 strangely, lie
hunted aud hunted, and 6ual.y went home
With his tail dropping perp.exed and bat
fed. For days afterwards, bis master
laughed to catch him furtivcy searching
about in that corner Of the store for the
mouse be had swallowed lie was in
worse quaudary than Mr.. Beecaer's dog,
Noble that watched 20 long 20 the s.oue
wall for the squirrel that had gone out on
the other side
How much do you suppose dogs under
stand Of The talk they hear2 Ijwou o.
alter startling 20 learn that every ute.H-
gent dog was "a chief amsuE u, g" i4kIu'
uOte-"
An Andover lady used TO have do
an ca understood her SO well chat she was
o lIged 10 spell the name of the place SD,
vas g)ug 70, IT she did not 81 hun t.
snow 1t. Ile was not up 10 ,pe Ing.
One evening when 1 was visiting q
friend, noticed pretty huIe do. the
room, aud was told that II 5e.on -cd T. some
other guests. Mr.. ana Mrs B. They SAID
he was not allowed 10 to.og the EmI,
bout, but be had learned 20 outwlt them
by gong 10 advance That afternoon. tn
Instance, when they arrived Eat Nr. L.,
tney found their dog had been there ALL
r,a ly half an hour. Mr.. b dii not doubt
that be learned where they were So.u.
oy note ~ their tai, AT boue.
remember AN anec tote this same gen
t.em1u re atei at the a-tao.e that even
lug, to illustrate the power animal, have
OF telling each other things Possibly it|
may have been already printed, bat Mr.
b. sand it happened under The eye Of
friend Of his.
Tins gent. emun was occupying q room
in Paris which overlooked the courtyard
OF hotel where ragmutfil dog, used 10
gather every day 20 PICK up cod vlctull-
aud make out dinner as best they cou q
Some elegant private grounds s.cped down
TO this same yard, and one day a daiut,
little eyhound belonging to the fine house
rowing about his masters domain, spran.
up on the wall that bounded H. and looked
down on this D 'ebian crowd wraugiing over
Their bones. Tuey acted as g they had
found something good, and SIR Greyhound,
thinking he would condesceud 10 take
BITE himself, jumped down among them.
Though they had been SOU billing among
themselves, they instantly made common
cause against the intruder. The idea Of
this pampeTei artstocrat. that lived ou the
tat Of the land, medIIing with their poor
plttance They turned on him SO fercely
he was only too glad TO get over the wall
with all the bones whole IN his shiny SKIN
\ GU can imagine how he fumed ABOUT that
rude r4bbie IS he ma de his way home
And ne thought OF way to punish them
The next day at noon he came down
again, accompanied By a huge Newfouud-
aud,-appeared to point out the enemy to
INN aud stood on the wall, qutvering with
pride and pleasure, while ms friend and
champion dashed in among the common
dogs and routed them, right and left So
his insult was avenged and the two marched
home with colors flying. As usual ia
France, the poor had asserted their rights
holly e1ough, but the aristocrats came out
uPpermost.
TINS patronizing Newfoundland reminds
me Of another Of his KIN which beiriended
! little dog that had got lost on a journey.
lie had no business to be on Journey, IN
the first place, for he was quite too small
to travel, but he had tagged after the
buggy, unnoticed, till it was too late to
send him home, so he had been taken on
board. HIS friends had made their visit
at Bath, New Hampshire, and were start
ing for their return by another way than
that they came, but they stopped at a
store III the village, this lmPrudent little
dog privately Jumped out OF tle wagon
and was sui gossiping with new ac-
qulintance when they drove of, supposiug
he was all safe under the seat.
OF course, he was quite .stracted when
he found they had zone and be was lelt