Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-04-26
THAT DOG OF SIMMS'.
The Trouble MAX Adeler :" Got Into
Trying 10 Take the Brute Home.


We did not want to take Slmms' dog
home for him but slmms insisted upon
Il. He wanted TO go somewhere 10 meet
a man, and so he placed one end Of the
chain In our hand and left before we had
time 10 rem snstrate. SO, as II was aoso-
lutely necessary TO do eomething with
the dog, we concluded that IL would be
better 10 do as Simms suggested, and
take him home. He was large dog, and
his temper was not Of angelic sweetuels'
When we started home with him be
seemed dls'ncllned to 60. He appeared
to entertain a preference for lying down
and thinking-probably about the suecu-
lence and juieiness Of the bites, he had
taken out Of various human legs during
his career. when we pulled at the chain
he growled, When we whlstled he rose
and shook up the hair on his spine and
showed HE teeth. When we attempted
to drag him along by force he flew at our
| leg aud attemtted TO help himself to
mouthlul. so that he could In the future
have ano her cherished recollection upon
which muse and ponder. We lodged
him aud lied a cane, one end of which
we inserted In his collar, so that he could
be keli 1t a safe distance.
Then hr was suddenly seized with an
intense yearning To reach simms' house
At enc, and he started with jump.
For three or four hundred yards the pro-
cesslon went on smoothly enough. Then
Simms' dog CHANGED TO perceive cat. and
made dash for IL The cat darted around
a tree, and the dog followed. The chase
continued to circle the tree until the dogs
chain was completely wound up, and
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nearly pulled himself through the collar
/ 10 his frantic struggles to reach his prey.
He appeared to feel that life would be a
dreary blank and happiness delusion If
be could not attain that cat. As fast as
we walked around to unwind the chain
Simms' dog would make fresh circuit
and give Il a new turn. Meanwhile a
crowd gathered, and the observations
made upon the situation by the boys be-
came embarrassing. A policeman un-
travelled the dog at last; but we should
perhaps have gone more rapidly toward
simms' if the dog had not been possessed
by an irresistible desire TO be soclable
with every other dog that came within a
square of him. Every now and then he
would make a dart for some adjacent
dog, while We were not thinking, and
would either PROSTATE us on the pave
ment or jam US against some illnatured
passer-by.
Once simm's dog obtained too much
sociability. There was bigger dog,
which seemed more anxious to commune
with Bimm's dog than the latter did with
him. The brief interview ended with q
fight. We were 30 much interested thai
when hostilities began, we climbed i'm
petuously over a fence, in order, as II
were, to obtain better standpoint FROM
which to view the conflict. We watched
the fray from the other side, while W,
passed the chain between the panels ant
endeayored to soothe the excited passion
of the parties. Simms's dog, we regre
to say, whipped; because, somehow, h
wound his chain around the other war
rior's hind legs, and then took a meal
advantage of him by removing cubi
, inch of his nose. Then we concluded L
vary the exercises little by starting fn
, home again. But the blood of Smms'
dog was up. AZ soon as we began b
cross the fence he made such sayag
demonstration at us that we felt il woul
} be suicide to get down among him. W
A determined TO remain where we were
But Smns's animal was animated b
aggres, i've zeal If We would not com
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