The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-02-13
TINy's TOMB.
I'm MemOriam.
DOGS.
BY MRS. SUE F. MOONEY.


fully as to the period when their blith
bark first made music around the home
ly huts of our frolicksome forefathers
We find no FOSSIL feet of this order il
primal paradise; but when the pilgrim
pair were driven from their Eden-hOme
they gave vent to their sorrow in short
| sudden cries or EXPLANATIONS, not un
like the whine of a domestic dog, whel
he misses the voice of his master. This
interjectional utterance was the Ian
guage they used when God had ceased
to talk with them in the blighted gar
| den. Through what painful process
they achieved the alphabet, learned tC
utter sensible sounds and cast words up
on the wandering wind is not very clear
to fact or fancy. At any rate good
| watch dog at the gate to sound note o.
alarm, seems to have beed necessity
since that direful day when the subtitle
serpent entered Eden.
Now u pom the theory that our
! thoughts, desires or cries may take
form, and become tangible things, we
nay suppose that sound of sorrow cast
| upon the answering air, to have become
Adams faithful friend--a devoted dog;
| which went with him into the wilder
| ness, showing by sundry signs his
sympathy, as the miserable master till
| ed through thorns and shistles the &C
cursed ground. We can imagine him
beside the nightly tent, and when the
long probation was past, and the tent
forever folded, see him sincere mourn
er beside the sepulchral stone. Then
when men had multiplied and wicked
ness increased, and the mighty march
of two and two into the ark had begun,
we fancy him following close beside
Noah, as If to protect him from the lord
y lion and crouching tiger. Tireless,
through the terrible time of rain and
wrath till Noah removed the covering
of the ark and looked, and behold the
face of the earth was dry" t. D.
Utitized, then idOIized, first as house
hold god hen, as tutetary deity, he be-
came II sacred animal, which not even
The priest OF he temple might harm or
kill. .H
A ruteIary deity was one having the
guardianship or charge OF protecting
prison, place or thing, so that the change
fro m household god, to god protecting
the household was quite natural, and
happily illustrates the bond which has
ever existed between the guarded and
the gunrdidn--the owner of the house
hold and the dog. History abOuDds in
illustrations OF the deyot5dness of dogs.
What is remarkable good dog neUer
dies. The only death recorded, OF this
long list, is that of Ulysses dog Argus.
He acknowledged his master after an
absence OF twenty years.
-"KneW his lord, and rove to meet,
In vain he stroye to crawl and kiss his feet;
Yet all he could, his tail, his ears, his eyes
Salute his master, and confess his joy
Takes last look, and having seen him,
dies"
Mr.. Editor, as said in the beginning,
know but little about dogs. As gen
eral thing they don't take to me kindly
They bark at me, and get frightened.
thinking how a bad bite results in some
thing with long name, and hard to
spell. l would like to krow that some
kind dog constitutes himself my guar
dian on lonely nights when [ hear
stealthy steppings without and mysteri-
Gus whispering within.
But there is one side of the subject l
can appreciate; the affection between
boy and his dog. It is a touching thing.
We have the ugliest dog around town;
so ugly that aesthetic rogues don't like
his looks. When we concluded to move,
it was decided that a dog Is not portable
property, and our boy gave this doc
away.
with many a tear and fond embrace,
The parting was fu' tender"
They tore themselves asunder, 4 few
mornin s afteFward, | was on my way
to the breakfast room, when great
shaggy paw was put out and over the
'Sly IhCC3 duu luGO bu6 0N6,
there came pleading, Wistful look,
such as the human oountenance wears
when the soul travails in sorrow. This
children were called; we'll, you remem~
Der the story of the Scottish BARNS and
the Shetland pony, and can picture the |
Joy ofthe gathered group oyer the es>
capped dog.
1t would take too much time to tell of |
the stuffed dog, named Barry, in the |
Museum at Bern. He saved the lives of |
fifteen persons lost in snow storms. / |
him because his last, best act |
was to rescue little boy whose mother |
had been swept away by an avalanche. |
But we cannot feel that fondness for an
unknown object which we have for a
member OF our own household or that |
1t favorite friend; and L draw very
,enderly and tearfully toward Tiny"
he pretty, playful pet of my little
friend Master Lee Bailey. "Tiny" was
my first friend in the town; I recognized
her as such, when she came caressing-
y around my chair, looked into nay
ace and seemed to say: "You are a
stranger, and feel sorry for YOU" The
Tiny" thing would play with the chill
lren, and in a thousand ways manifest
Ter affection for her loving master. He
rave her her breakfast, put away her
Inner and softly soothed her to sleep
It night. l recall the many tricks of
enderness between the two with sad
zen, for alas! poor Tiny" The truant
ears were trickling all down Lees
.heeks when he sobbed out, ''Tiny is
lead! All night she kept coming to the
bed, crying and looking at me, just like
he wanted me to do Something for her,
md didn't know what it was"
With sobs and tears they bore her away,
In the new-made grave to sleep;
Nhere "Foote and II at the close of day,
May mournfully go and vainly weep.
Under the Rose-tree's fragrant shade,
Where the sunbeams softly smile,
he dear littl one was lovingly laid
But naught can my griet begutle.
?oor ipretty pet,1 know she is dead
Yet Ger the house hear her again;
IN saving for her the bits of bread,
think she still heeds my school-boy song,
The SnatcheS | sing in the street;
With JOY and glee hasten along,
My faithful friend impatient to greet.
he dead and will still be playing,
While Time and Tears together flow;
sack to the past forever straytng,
AS sea-weed on q broken billOw!
till playing when the sun in the west is
cleaning,
And dark weird shadows begin to creep;
he "Ttny" footsteps with me are roaming,
Till too shall lie down to sleep.
Tor the Herald and Mail.