Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-10-04
DODGEVILLE, WISCONSIN, FRIDAY, OCTOBER T. 1872
"How did you find him?" he asked the

"How did you find him?" he asked the
Snowman.
''It was all that dog" said our friend.
IT declare, the way some critters act does
beat all natur'. You see, we lost the dog
| going on more'n a week back. One of
the men got mad at the dog when he was
drunk, and give him an awful whipping;
and [ expect it hurt his feelings, and he
run off. AS for the tiger, he got out early
this morning; and we didn't want to make
none too much fuss about it, and we Just
set out after him; but expect half the
country's out looking now. Me and Jim,
| and these two, we took the lariats-Ilearn-
ed how to use the thing out on the Plains.
1t comes kind of handy to know most
! things, generally. We'd meant to exhibit
this afternoon; and, after we'd hunted the
critter pretty much all the morning, we
went back to the tent over in GalOosa to
! see if any one else had heard of him, and
we hadn't more'n got there, when in
| bounces this dog.
"He hain't got no name, only the ugly
dOg;' and he comes up to me, and begins
to beg and whine, and then he catches
hold of me, and tries to drag me along
with him; and felt sure something was
to pay. So, having the tiger on my mind,
long as I didn't know where to look for
him, was just as like to find him by
following the dog as any other way; so we
set out, and you never see critter so
tickled as that dog was.
HHe led us along through the swamp,
and by-and-by l was sure | heard the
beast. So we kind of stole march on
him; and, when he jumped on the roof,
we'd got quite comfortably close to him;
and he wassso busy clawing the shutter,
the lariat, and took him Just as slick as
whistle. Pm awful glad of it, because
I'd have hated to shoot him only for act
ing according to nature. 'Tain't as if he
was.a Christian, you know" concluded
the Snowman, eXcusing his pet.
"But how could the dog know he would
find you ir Galoosa?"
"Well, critters know more things than
folks think they do. Maybe he remem-
bered we were there last year, or, likely
enough, some of the other dogs told him."
81 hope you'll let me keep him, said,
as the ugly dog pressed close to my side.
ooh, my, yes'm! amt the kind ofman
to take the dog away from lady," said
the gallont Snowman. GIVE sent one Of
the boys to Galoosa for the tigers cage
and my buggy, and I'll see you home.
I'm awful sorry the beast has put you
and the yonng lady to so much inconven-
ience; but he amt bad fellow, now,
really"
We reached home before any rumor of
the runaway colts had come to Maysville;
but we found the village in great excite
ment about the tiger, and the captain, in
rather an anxious state Of mind prepar-
ing to go and meet us.
He looked rather grim when he heard
of our adventure, and received poor
Dicks penitent confession; but had the
discretion to do nothing more than to ex
press the hope that it would ''be lesson
to him." and, indeed, think 1t was.
AS for ''the ugly dog" he was the hero
of the family. So long as he lived, his
was the warm place on the rug in winter,
the shady piazza in summer, and any
quantity of affection and caresses.
He lived to extreme old age, and, in
spite of growing infirInity, preserved his
loving and amiable temper to the end.
His last act was to drag himself to my
feet, and he died with his head on my
arm, feebly trying to lick my hand.
There were some tears shed over his
grave, and we did not think necessary to
enter into an argument against the firm
belief entertained by our children that
.sthe ugly dog ha1 gone to heaven. y
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