The Grange advance., 1874-08-19
Butterby's Dog Gone eSky-Eocketins.


have had charge Of Butterby's dog
this summer. l was not very anxious
to take care of him, but I am under
obligations to Butterfly, and when he
asked me to keep the animal for him
while he went to the sea shore, I didn' t
like to refuse. Butterfly brought him
around, and turned him into the cellar,
where he could amuse himself hunting
for rats. That was on the 10Th Of
June, and after that only twelve per-
sons entered the cellar. The hired
girl went down after the cold beef, and
came up, diSheveled and bleeding, with
number of appalling dog-bites in her
legs, and l descended imme-
diately afterward for the pur-
pose Of pacifying the infuriated
animal. He did not feel disposed to be-
come calm, however, and I deem it
probable that if l had not suddenly
clambered into the coal-bin. where re-
manned until he fell asleep in a distant
corner about four hours later, I should
certainly have been torn to pieces. We
thought We would have to try and get
along without using the cellar until
Butterfly could come up and take away
his dog,b Butterfly wrote to say that
he couldn't come, and the dog. after
eating everything in the cellar and bark
ing through all the night, finally bolted
up stairs into the kitchen on the second
day of July, and established himself in
the back yard. Since that time we
have used the front door exclusively,
while We were waiting for Butterfly to
come up. The dog had fits regularly
and always got on the geranium bed
when he felt them coming on, and we
consequently have not enjoyed our
flowers as much this season as we hoped
to. The cherries were ri pc during the
reign of Butterby's dog, but all but
which were picked by
Cooley's boy, who subsequently went
over the fence in sensational manner
without stopping to ascertain what But
tcrbys dog was going to do with the
mouthful Of drawers and corduroy
trousers that he had removed from
Cooleys boys legs. As Butterfly did
not come up, as the dog would not
touch poison, and as l never shot at
him without missing him by forty feet.
1 employed another and eftcctual means
of Kidding myself of him. We were to
have friends in the village on the
Fourth, but as it rained, the exhibition
did not take place. The man who had
charge Of it had several large rockets in
his hands, and after buying eight of
those, and tying them in bunch, con-
trived to lasso the dog and fastened the
end of the rope to the rockets. Then I
touched them of, and Butterby's dog
was swishing round among the constel-
lations, in some doubt as to the stabil-
ity of earthly things. He came down in
New Jersey in an underdone condition,
with his hair off. When Butterfly
comes up, | expect trouble, but l am
prepared for it.-Mar Adeler.
The Christian Union points a moral
in this paragraph: "A bit of sunken
history has just been dug up in Paris.
having a significance far greater than
that of r"ere antiquarianism. In the
register Of the parish Of the Madeleine
appears this entry, under date Of Oct.
l6, 1893: Paid seven francs for a
coffin for the widow Capet, who was de-
capitated this day. How the clerk
who made the record must have chuck
led over the grim joke lurking in bis
prosaic entry! And who was this Wild
ow Capet ? It was under that gro-
tesquely accurate name that he referred
to Marie Antionette, Queen of France,
by birth allied to one long line Of kings,
and by marriage allied to another. And
this was the fate of that splen-
did princess who few years
before had descended upon France
'slittering like the morning star, full of
life and splendor and joy'-to have her
head cut off as only poor widow Capet,
and to be buried in rough board box
costing seven francs! The anecdote
suggests, also, how largely royalty de-
pends upon appeals to the imagination
for its honor and continuance among
men. Many a Frenchman may have
consented to the death Of the widow
Capet' who would have shuddered at
the sacrilege Of numbering the Queen
This principle was we'll understood by
the iconoclasts of that time-for exam
pie, by Thomas Paine, who was in the
habit Of referring to King George III. as
Mr.. Guelph In fact it would be safe
to say that if the kings and queens Of
Europe should now be commonly y spoken
Of as Mr.. and Mrs. So and So, they
would all have to abdicate in six
months.
Tho Phonetic System of Spellin1.