The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1873-05-22

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The Missouri Republican of q re
cent date says All read stories o.
sagaci ous dogs with interest. Here
il q new one, aud IL has tho add
tional merit Of being strictly true
A certain lawyer in San Francisco
has a wife, a nurse girl, whole
house fill of sth all children, and q
large Newfoundland dog MS play
mate for the little ones. Il wSs not
known until lately that the dog had
any other merit than q doggish at
tachment to the family, a kind, play
ful disposition and a goad appetite
A startling exigency arose, and he
became the brave defender Of that
family.
The lawyer has a near neighbor,
whose wife is afflicted with mild
type of insanity. The unfortunate
woman was supposed to be perfect
ly harmless, and hor husband kept
her with him. She was On object Of
monrnful interest in tho neighbor
hood, and her vagaries sometimes
amused the children. Nobody ever
thought of her becoming dangerous.
One day when the lawyer was at his
Office, and his wife was out shopping
and tho children, left in charge Of
the nurse girl, were romping with
the dog, there &as violent knock
ing At tho door. which startled the
whole house. The girl went to the
door, and the dog was there too,
with an expression Of interest on his
countenance. When the door was
opened the crazy woman forced her
way into the hall, looking very much
excited. She talked and looked
wild, and was evidently raving mad
The dog knew her, and appearing al
50 to know that there was something.
wrong, on foot, he crowded in be-
tween the affrighted children and the
visitor and commenced barking. The
nurse girl not being alarmed, told
him to git out The maniac wo
man, it seems, took tho remark as
addressed to her, seized the girl by
the hair. and dragged hor down, and
finally clutched her throat and com
menced strangling her. , The girl
was powerless in the hands OF the
maniac, and the children ran scream
ing. The dog, not liking the course
matters had taken, sprang at the
mad woman with open jaws, and
fastened upon her. She loosened
her hold on the PROSTATE girl, and
mads her way to the door in charge
Of the dog. She stepped outside
and the animal let her 60. The
nurse girl then bolted the door, and
tho now doubly enraged woman be-
gan to throw stones and break the
windows, and finally got an ax and
commenced howing down the door.
The house was in tho suburbs, and
no policeman was near. The girl
locked the terrified children in a
back room, and, leaving the dog TO
guard the house, went out by back
door, and hastened to the lawyers
office. ,
The mad woman, hearing the
children shrieking in tho back part
of the house and the barking Of the
dog in the same direction, left the
front door and went around to the
rear of the house. She saw the chill
dren's faces huddled together in the
window, and made a fresh attack.
She broke the window all to pieces,
and tried to get in by it, but the
opening was a little too high and
and she had nc ladder. The terror
of tho children during this scene can
probably be imagined. They heard
their friend, the dog, at the door
outside, and their he faithfully staid,
protesting against the riotous pro
ceeding with his deep toned voice,
Presently the bafiied maniac made
her way through the back door with
her ak, and stood face to face with
the foe that had previously forbid
den her the house. He lay crouch
ing at the children's door, and there
the lawyer found him when he came
with a sufficient force to raise the
siege. In few hours the woman
became as quiet and inoffensiye as
ever, but there has been a neighbor-
hood meeting to-, consider the
propriety of reporting the danger
and having her sent to an asylum.
The dog, doubtless, thoroughly en-
ljoyed his next play time with those
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