Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-03-13
SIsIMS' DOG.
49,

BIZ MAN ADELEhs
We did not want to take Simms' doc
home for him; but Simms insisted upon it
he wanted to go somewhere to meet a mar
and so he placed one end of the chain il
our hand, and left before we had time tC
demonstrate. So, as it was absolutely ne
cessary to do something with the dog, We
concluded that it would be better to do as
Simms suggested, and take him home
he was large dog, and his temper was
not Of angelic sweetness. When we
started home with him, he seemed disin-
clined to go. He appeared to entertain
preference for lying down and thinking
probably about the sUcculence and juici-
ness of the bites he had. taken out Of vari-
GUS human legs during his career. When
we pulled at the chain be growled. When
we whistled he rose and shook up the HAN
on his spine and showed his teeth. When
We attempted to drag him along by force be
flew at our leg and attempted to help him
self to mouthful, so that he could in fu-
ture have another cherished recollection up
on which to muse and ponder. We lodged
him and seized cane, one end of which
we inserted in his collar, so that he could
be kept at safe distance. Then he was
suddenly seized with an intense yearning to
reach Simms' house at once, and be started
with Jump. For three or four hundred
yards the procession went on smoothly
enough; but we should perhaps, have gone
more rapidly towards Simms' if the dog had
not been possessed by an irresistible desire
to be sociable with every other dog that
came within a square of him.
Once Simms' dog obtained too much So
liability. There was bigger dog, which
seemed more anxious to commune with
Simms' dog than the latter did with him.
The brief interview ended with fight.
We were so muc1 interested that when hos
tilities began we climbed impetuously over
a fence, in order, as it were, to obtain a
better standpoint from which to view the
conflict. We watched the fray from the
other side, while we passed the chain be-
tween the panels and endeavored to soothe
the excited passions of the parties.
Simms' dog, we regret to say, whipped.
. Then we concluded to vary the exercises
a1ittle by starting for home again. But the
blood of Simms' dog was up. As soon as
we began to cross the fence he made such
a savage demonstration at Us that we
thought it would be suicide to get down
w
where we were. But Simms' animal was
animated by aggressive zeal. five would
not go to him he would go to us. So be
began to crawl through the
fence at the panel through
which his chain went. Just as he COM
pleted the task We adjourned with singu-
lar promptness to the other side. Simms'
dog looked surprised and grieved, but be
emitted savage growl and began to crawl
back again. 1t seemed then as if considera-
tons of strictly personal but very urgent
nature required that we should return to the
previous side of the fence; and, whenIwe did,
Simms' dog seemed to regard 1t as sacred
duty to climb back at once. We like dog
to have perseverance and determination,
aud Simms, dog had. As these gymnas-
tics were fast becoming monotonous, we
concluded to vary them; so we let the dog
go and repaired to neighboring tree. As
soon as the dog arrived he gazedsupward
for q while and drank in the scene. Then
he seemed satisfied, and lay down at the
foot of the tree to wait till we descended.
He stayed there four hours,and so did we.
We couldn't desert such a faithful
dog as that. At the end of that
time Simms hove in sight, and, standing
there beneath the outspresding branches of
that noble old monarch of the forest, turned
his face upward and abrsed US scurrilously
for not bringing home his dog, as we had
promised TO do, intimating at the same
time his belief that we cherished an inten-
ton to steal the brute. We should have
dropped on Simms' head and crushed him
to the earth If his dog hadn't been there.
As it was, we overlooked the insult, and be
went home with his menagerie. The next
time we lave dog to take home we shall
kill him before we start.