Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-04-24
4 New Dog Story.

All read stories Of sagacious dogs with
interest. Here is new one, and it has
the additional merit of being strictly true
\ certain lawyer in San Francisco has Il
wife nurse girl, a whole house full of
small children, and large Newfoundland
dog as a playmate for the little ones. 1t
was not known until lately that the dog
had any other merits than a dOggish at
tachment to the family, a kind, playful
disposition and Il good appetite. a start
ling cxigency arose and he became the
brave defender Of that family.
The lawyer has a near neighbOr whose
wife is afflicted with a mild type of insan
ity. The unfortunate woman was sup
posed to be perfectly harmless, and her
husband kept her with him. She was IN
object of mourntul interest in the nei Oh
borhood 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 the chill
dren, left in charge Of the nurse girl, were
rOmping with the dog there was a violent
knocking at the door which startled the
whole house. The nurse girl went to the
door, and the children crowded around
her, and the dog was there too, with an eXi
preston of interest on his ColIntenance
When the door was opened the crazy
woman forced her way into the hall,
looking very much excited She talked
loud and looked wild, and
was evidently raving mad. The dog knew
her, and appearing also to know that there
was something wrong on foot, he crowded
in between the affrighted children and the
visitor, and commenced barking. The
nurse girl not being alarmed, told him to
took the remark as addressed to her, seiZ-
ed the girl by the hair and dragged her
down, and finally clutched her throat and
commenced strangling her. The girl was
powerless in the hands Of the maniac, and
the children ran screaming The dog not
liking the course matters had taken,
sprang at the mad woman with open jaws,
and fastened upon her. She iOOsened her
hold of the PROSTATE girl, and made her
way to the door in charge Of the dog. She
stepped outside, and the animal let her CO.
The nurse girl then bolted the door, and
the now doubly enraged woman began to-
throw stones and break the windows, and
finally got an AK and commenced hf"iGg
down the door. The house was in the
suburbs, and no policeman was near. The
girl locked the terrified children in a back
room, and leaving the dog to guard the
mouse, went OUT DN Il DdCh uDOT anu has
tened to the lawyers office.
The mad woman, hearing the children
shrieking in the 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 children's faces huddlcd together in
the window, and made fresh attack She
broke the window all to pieces and tried
to get in b. ii, but the opening was a little
too high and she had no ladder. The ter
ror of the children during this season can
probably be imagined. They heard their
| friend, the dog, at the door outside, and
there he faithfully staid, protesting
| against the riOtOus proceedings win ms
| deep-toned voice. Presently the Dafhed
maniac made her way through the back
| door with her ak. and stood face to face
with the foe that had previously forbidden
her the house. He lay crouchlng at the
| children's door, and there the lawyer
found him when he came, with sufficient
! force to raise the seige. In a few hours the
| mad woman became as quiet and inOffen-
siye as ever, but there has been a neigh
! horhood meeting to consider the proprie-
ty of reporting the danger and having her
sent to an asylum. That dog, doubtless,
thoroughly enjoyed the next play-time
with those children
A WORTHY farmer in Georgia, who was
carried home on a litter the other day,
solemnly asserts that nothing but TWEEN