Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-01-23

hour dealers; so often had he chased
her, and so often he experienced the
bitter disappointment of seeing her climb
up the posts of the shop, and then spit
ting at him from the top of the shed.
Infatuated lizard Wretched fly
Betrayed pussy She needed not the
sly creep of the dog, so intent was she
upon the lizard. The fly was gorging
himself with honey. He alone partook
not of the intense anxiety of the lizard,
the cat and dog. He partook only Of
honey.
The crisis at length arrived. The
lizard made nimble porlnce at the fly.
The lizard missed his footing in conse-
quence, and would have been the cats
portion-fy, honey and all-but for the
dogs sudden attack upon puss. Here
was a scene ! The lizard, falling to the
ground, was at once involved in the con-
sequences of the quarrel between dog
and cat. What were fly or honey to
him at that moment, when in state
between life and death he crept back
sore and wounded to his chinks and cob
webs? The fly might or might not
have escaped. Not so the cat, now
sorely worried by the dog, in spite of her
outcries and all she could do in the way
OF biting and chawing; for it was an old
score the dog was paying off, and that
might soon cost her life, if her master
had not rushed out of his shop with a
broomstick, with which he began to be-
labor the dog.
Now the owner of the dog had been
at long enmity with the man of flour and
honey, as the dog had been at enmity
with the cat, and probably longer. Of
course, therefore, when he heard the ami
mails cries and saw the punishment in
tiicted, he armed himself with broom
stick also, rushed across the street, and
gave the flour dealer such crack upon
the head as to knock him down as flat as
a pancake.
''Take that, you villain, said he, s'for
it is debt I long owed you"
Have you?" said the flour dealers
son, as he rushed out with a cudgel in
his hand. "Then tell me how you like
that giving him such a hearty whack
across the shoulders that he was fain to
drop his broomstick.
Yet the blow had hardly been given
before friend of the dogs master ran
up with drawn sword and would have
made mince meat of the -four dealers
son but for a soldier, who cried out:
Shame, thou coward, and son of a
coward, who would attack youth with
only stick in his hand, and you with
sword. Shame on you. It's just like
you rascally Hindoo fellows, who pre-
tend to be soldiers, and are as much like
soldiers as that poor cat. Why don't
you try me %
why not ?" replied the man. s'Do
you think am afraid of such a bully as
you? Come on, you scoundrel, and I'll
show you what difference there is be-
tween cat and Hindoo p
Upon this the soldier drew his sword,
and both began to cut each other in good
earnest
On all this the people cried out ''Mur-
der murder = and great many soldiers
running to the spot were soon engaged,
always attacking the Hindoos, who were
on the dogs side, and the Hindoos the
Mussulmen, who were on the side of the
cat, and whenever a Hindoo and a Mus
sulman were fighting, the Hindoos aided
the Hlndoo and the Mussulmen the Mus
selman, and the consequence was the
death of many on each side, and the
wounuing of the foolish and quarrelsome
people engaged.
Of course such hubbub as this could
not be continued long without its being
reported to the Rajah, who forthwith has
tened from hispalace with his body guard
and his horsemen, and soon put stop
to this terrible fray, and all the ring
leaders were forthwith seized and tied
together and marched off to prison, there
to be closely inquired into and the cause
of SO dreadful a riot ascertained and
fixed upon the guilty.
All that night, therefore, were the
magistrates and police officers hard at
work listening to evidence, but they
did not advance a single step in the
business nor for several days after,
Notwithstanding the great impotence of |
the Rajah, to whom they could only re-
port from time to time the hearing of |
nothing but the words, I" Cat, dog-cat |
and dog-dog and cat-dog-
A very similar feeling also was enter
tanned by the lawyers who were called |
In, and who, after intense application,
declared themselves doubtful-so much |
was suspected by various presidents
both on the side of the cat and the dog, |
and consequently of the owner of the cat |
as well as the owner of the dog, and the |
partisans of the owners of the dog, and |
the partisans of the>owners of the cat |
and dog-insomuch that the whole city |
was split into the most determined cat
and dog factions, and all strangers that |
entered the gates were instantly alb |
sorbed In the cat and dog vortex, and |
whirled actually round in the terrible
fray, which every now and then broke
out in fresh fury, notwithstanding all
the vigilance of the Rajah's guards.
And yet all these valiant heroes were in
some degree infected, giving slight cuts
at cat or dog men, just as they them
selves inclined to support the cat or dog
question:
And SO matters would have remained |
either to the day Of the final depopula-
ton of Shorapoor or doomsday itself but
for the wise old Brahmin who had given |