, 1873-06-22
A Good Dog Story

From the Utica HtTEtd.
It does not make any difference whether your
name il Keyser OF not. If you want to buy dog,
there il one for sale cheap on canal-boat now
braving the pillows somewhere sast Of Frank
fort. The Captain Of the boat is an osUogo
man, and it is but one short week since no
spl;ced lis 1nainbrace and let cut the reefs in his
driver, and got three sheets in the
wind, and made all necessary -prepara-
tions for = prosperous voyage. hla wife
sung. Write Ne a Letter, Lore, IN IN
etceds aired their frames on the tow-path, bis
hand vas on the rrdder. and his mate was Just
recovering from his farewell attack OF dellr1uIn
tremeus In tho forward cabin. The Captain
nothing necessary to complete tits happiness !;
but his wife wiser than he, thought they needed
dog-a nice Eewfoundland-to play with the
| children, fish them oht when they, feb in the
canal, and watch the deck hands when the Cap
tain was OF after groceries.
Coming through West Utica yesterday, the
Captain bought nice Newfoundland dog. He
got him at q bargain; in fact. he got him tor
nothing, so to speak, because the man Who
owned the dog was not m around at tue time the
but still he was not happy. The dog had way
Of barking at passing crafts, and 60 drew upon
his Captains boat frequent showers OF coal and
wood, and he would dive down the steep steps
into the cabin suddenly and upset the Captains
wife. Once he Lit right on the table and spoiled
q pound Of butter, and he YVES altogether TOO
playful
Yesterday the Captain, who is pious man,
tied up, and put out his plank just e.st Of this
city, and started with h,s Children to go to the
park and to observe tho day after tho manner OF
this vicinity. The dog starred too, and as soon as
LIE got on shore he began to caper and wag his
tail. and 80 wacged one Of tho children fat On
it's pleased back The baby yelled, and the Cap
tain made somo tender remarks as he set it On
his pious feet, and some other remarks as he
shook his tist ut the dog. The dog misunderstood
the man, and came running back, full OF fnn,
and made jump to link his face Ae missed
the man. but he knocked the other child into tho
canal, and the father, without waiting to mako
any remarks, jumped in after it. The dog. be-
ing to the water born, knew Just what to do. and
he went caYorting on to get good te:dway,
barking to himself at every jump, and, lust as
the man got to the top OF the water With his
darling child, the dog took flying leap Of about
twenty feet md struck on top Of the man. Well,
the water that man spu1ted around Vas bollng
hot with the oaths be sputtered with it, and
his wife pranced around On the deck Ct the boat,
and dung pole to tho old man, which the dog
promptly draggcd and pulled ashore, and that
Captain was nearly drowned before he trod the
eod again.
The dog is an intelligent animal al-very intelli-
gent indeed and just Is soon as he saT that
mariners face ho knew that something was
wrong so he elunk up the plank on board. The
Captain gathered what loose granite and lumber
he could In hurried and earnest search, and
marched up the plank, the g1immest figure OF
Neptune ever done in Mohawk Valley mud. As
soon as be got on board he opened a hot fire on
the dog, and that sagacious brute went ye1ping
through the forward hatch and struck in the
bunk, whore the mate lay musiu8 about the
devil. When the mate saw the dog be thought
the evil one had come for him sure enough, and
he braced himself for one last fight, so thatwhen
the Captain Jumped down in pursuit OF the dog
there was mutual misunderstanding al around.
Tho Captains wife looked down and tried to OK
plain. but there Was confused whirlpool Of
bunk boards, and hair, and bedding, and legs,
and arms, with an occasional infusion Of dog,
that it seemed idle to waste her breath in taking
such circus.
To-day the bow OF that fated craft cuts the va
ters solemnly, and at the helm stands the wreck
Of that Captain. fastened together with strips Of
plaster, and smelling OF iniment, and ever and
anon he surrenders the rudder to his wife, while
he goes forward to hammer detected dog,
which is for sale, or to listen to the rawlings OF
the maniac confined under the forward batch.