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SAD STORY or A DECENT DOGS DOWNFALL
WHAT a - GLASS OF BEER LEADS TO.
From the indianapolis Herald.

4 SAD slOhl Or 4 DECENT DOC : DOWNFALL
WHAT a e GLASS OF BEER" LEADS TO.
From the indianapolis Herald.
There was no better behaved dog in the
entire state of Illinois than Ball rd's
- Monte" He was young, handsome, in
telligent, educated, and Of good moral habits.
lie was high-bred setter, with long. soft
hair, dark brown in color and tawny under
the throat. His ewes were soft and melting
in their expression, his silken ears had the
Tatrician droop, and his aristocratic tail was
eloquent in It's JOY and affection, and rigid as
an ax-haudle whea it, owner came toa point
(NIon,e was reasonable dog. You could
alwuys make him see the point without the
ali o a hunting whip.) As for his nose
there never was such nOse-there never
Was such nose hung 10 dog before. lie
c,ald scent a quail across forty-acre field,
and could retrie,e anything except his repu-
tatiln in the Inter par, Of his career. He
would carry a dead bird hall a mile and put
IL IN the wagon and lie never mouthed OF
manelel the game. When Ballard was
nervous OF hustered, and missed good shots,
Moate che, riully came up to be licked with
the ramr0d. magnanimously taking all the
blame or himself, but when anybody else Of
the party missed a shot, Monte made no at
tempt to conceal his contemptuous disgust.
On these occasions he usually relieved his
mind by licking the other dog. Monte hada
bright future before him. But, alas In
an eyi! hour he tastes his first glass Of beer,
and from that moment was ruined dog
The~wav Of it was this: 1t was hot day
in August, and Ballard and his friend had
been hunting over the fiery stubble for hours
No water was to be had. though key Of
beer was in the wagon. Monte was nearly
zone M. His tongue hung out foot or
more. and his palpitating sides indicated
speedy dissolution. Ballard, unable to OBJ
tim water. gave him quart Of beer, which
he Tapped up with satisfaction and demanded
more. lie was given pint more. Con-
siderably refreshed, the hunt was resumed.
bat Monte behaved strangely. lie dashed
about in reckless manner. and tumbled
head-long over fences. He barked in
maudlin. inc5herent way, and quarreled
without cause with Smith dog He seemed
to have lost the control Of his nose. and
would run over a coyey Of grouse, and a
moment after come to dead point on
field mouse or grasshopper. lie chased rab-
lNt1-dl AlAl~fItAlDl MllltA 44t NOul4 nave
scorned in his sober sense. 1t was pain
fally evident that Monte was drunk-Talpa-
bly, ami shamefully drunk-drunk as a fiji
der. The next morning Monte got up with
"A raging headache. He felt bad. His hair
pulled. But he seems to have heard Of the
drunkard 5 axiom, - the hair of the dog is
good for the bite, and he accordingly fol-
lowed Ballard down town and - rang in on
him while he was taking his matutinal
whiskey and tanzey. Ballard stood treat.
and Monte " histed in glass of old stock
ale. Several loafers thought it was funny to
see dog making beast of himself and 50
t ey invited poor Monte to take another and
another, until the upshot Of it was that be
went home that night drunken than ever.
1t got noised around town that Monte liked
beer, and everybody began to invite him.
The consequence was that he became a SGT.
He neglected his business. His beautiful
eyes became red and rheumy, and his silken
coat got shaggy. lie frequented the bar
rooms and laid for invitations to drink
When nard pressed, he would - run his
face with the bar-keeper,
Monte made frequent efforts to reform
bat dog flesh is weak after day or two Of
h'otiiIliNt il' NDulA llluli-t AllAp d AtN lIS-
debauch. And 50 he went from bad to
worse. His master becoming alarmed,
served notices on all the whiskey shops not
to let Monte have anything bat all to no
purpose. lie found means to get drank
every day. Beer got too weak for him and
he took to whiskey. Other dogs began to
look down on him. Smiths dog-a misera-
bic mongrel-cut his acquaintance. Even
the tistes and bench legs regarded him with
a pity that was more calling to his proud
nature than contempt. Finally the end
came. After an unusually protracted de-
bauch, Monte began to see things. lie
would bristle up at imaginary dogs, and
then shrink in the most AFFECT terror from
some imaginary assailant. Then he would
come to Il dead point on nothing, and again
he would hustle imaginary cats about the
yard. and, getting them in corner, bark
for hours at vacancy lie couldn't sleep.
He couldn't eat. lie couldn't do anything |
that was sensible, and finally he died as the
fool dieth-of jim.jams. We buried him
under an apple tree, with a head-h0ard |
bearing the following inscription
Sacred to the Memory Of
MONTE
Only Dog Of A. C. Ballard.
Who (the Dog Died December T. l-5-
OF Typhoid Pneumonia,
Superinduccd by overwork and Mental
Anxiety
" Gone but not Forgotten"
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