The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-08-29
NUMBER 81.
Il GOOD DOG sTORY.

] IL NOCS IOL OllN ulHErenpG
whether your name is Keyser or not.
If you want to buy a dog, there is one
for sale cheap on canal boat now brav-
ing the billows somewhere east of
FrankfoYd. The Captain of the boat
is an Oswego man, and it is one sI!5rt
week since he spliced his main brace
and let out the reefs In his driver and
got three sheets in the wind, and made
all necessary preparation for a prosper
ous voyage His wife sang, Write
me Letter, Love, g iii the cabin; his
children played on deck his steeds
aired their frames on the tewpath. his
hand was on the rudder, and his mate
was just recovering from a farewell
attack OF deiiril,n t"enleI5s in the for-
ward cabin. The Captain gazed
| proudly around him, and could think
! of nothing necessary TO complete his
! happiness; but his wife, wiser than he.
Thought they needed a dog-a nice
| Newfoundlar1d-to play with the chill
dren, fish them out when they fell into
! the canal, and watch the deck hands
| when the Captain was off after grocer
| les.
Coming through West Utica on Sat,
urday, the Captain bought nice New
foundland dog. He got him at
bargain; in tact he got him for nothing
so to speak, beCadse the man who
owned the dog was not around at the
time the bargain was made. The cap
tain had the dog, but still he was not
happy. The dog had a way of bark
! ing at passing crafts, and so drew upon
his captains boat frequent showers Of
! coal and wood, and he wotlld dive down
the steep steps into the cabin suddenly
I and upset the captains wife Once
he lit right on the table and spoiled a
pound of butter, and he was altogether
too playful,
Yesterday the captain, who is q
pious man, tied up, and put out his
plank just east of the city, and started
with his children to go to the park and
to observe the day after the manner
of the vicinity. The dog started, too,
and as soon as he got on shore he be-
gan to- caper and wag his tail and so
| wagged one of the children fat on its
| blessed back. The baby yelled, and
| the captain made some tender remarks
! as he set it on its pious feet, and some
! other remarks as he shook his fist at
the dog. The dog misunderstood the
man, ard came running back, full of
! fun, and made jump to lick his face.
He missed the man, but he knocked
/ the other child into the canal, and the
! father, without waiting to make any
! remarks, jumped in after it. The dog,
/ being to the water born, knew iust
hot fO i op1 ha a.
to get a good headwaJ, barking to
himself at every jump, and just as the
man got to the top of the water with
his darling child, the dog took flying
leap of about twenty feet, and struck
on top of the man. Well, the water
that man spurted around was boiling
hot with the oaths he sputtered with it,
and his wife pranced around on the
! deck of the boat, and flung a pole to
: the old man, which the dog promptly
dragged and pulled ashore, and that
captain was nearly drowned before he
| trod the sod again.
! The dog is an intelligent animal
very intelligent, indeed and Just as
soon as he saw that mariners face he
knew that something was wrong, so he
skunk up the plank on board Tie
captain gathered what loose granite
and lumber he could il. hurried but
earnest search, and marched up the
plank, the grimmest figure of Neptune
ever done IL Mohawk Valley mud.
As soon as he got on board he opened
hot fire on the dog, and that saga
cious brute went yelping through the
forward hatch, and stuck in the bunk.
where the mate lay musing about the
devil. When the mate saw the dog
he thought the evil one had come for
him sure enough, and he braced him
self for one last fight, so that when the
captain jumped down in pursuit Of the
dog, there was a mutual misunder-
standing all around, The captains
wife looked down and tried to explain,
but there was such confusion and whirl-
pool of bunk boards and hair; and bed
ding, and legs, and arms, with an oc-
casional infusion OF dog, that it seemed
idle to waste her breath IN talking to
such a circus.
To-day the bow of that fatal craft
cuts the water sOIemnIy. and ut the
helm stands the wreck of that captain,
fastened together with strips of plaster,
and smelling of liniment, and ever and
anon he surrenders the rudder to his
wife while he goes forward TO hammer
a detected dog. which II for sale, or to
listen to the Taving of the maniac con-
fined under the forward hatch.-U tlca
Herald.
4 CONDUCTOR on the Chicago anu
A Iton railroad is reported Co have Dro-
hibited honeymoon billing and cooing