Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-11-26
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Or ~. Eyed Te~ro- ssadden's
Fiddle and iiOllenback'S Dog.
From the D.roit Free Press.

Mr.. Holleaback. of Sixth street,
owns bulldog about the size Of u
yearling calf and the whole neigh
bOrhood has To walk on its tip-tOes
, and put on respectful look when
that dog is turned loose. The other
night Mr.. Hollenhack was telling Il
f crowd in corner grocery what i
prize medal of a dog he had. and how
he could prance over anything in De
trolt. when vOnng man named Mad
den, who owns fiddle and fiddles it
most Of the time. said he'd het money
that he could make the Hollenhack
canine quake and tremble under the
power of music. He SAID he never
saw Il dog which couldn't be liddlel
: out of countenance in five minutes hy
/ the clock, and he had tried lots of
them. Mr.. Hollenback erinned with
delight. and it was arranged that the
/ Young man should try it on right
away. Madden got his til,lle and the
crowd went over 10 Hollenhack's
The dog was called into the kitchen.
and then the crowd slipped ont. one
by one. leaving Madden alone.
"Cross-evCd Terror such is the
caninc's name-didn't know what to
think Of the proceedings. and he sat
up and gave Madden look in which
border rullianiSm. inquiry, deceit,
and aStOnishment were about equal
lv mingled. The fiddle was poiSed
and the y0un" man commenced iia-
ding Il sad tune. something like Mo
thcr Is Dead" The lo. rose up ut the
first note and bent an earnest look ON
the fiddle. He had probable never
seen fiddle before. and he was in
doubt rs To whether il was new kind
of dog ar an internal machine As the
tune began To- draw ont longer and
longer CruSS-cved Terror took q step
forward and gave utterancc to
9rOwl which made things trcmble.
Madden looked iiXedlv at the animal
and sawed away until it became eyi
dent that he hadn't better keep that
tune much longer. and he changed off
on 10 something lively. The dogs
bristleS rose up and his eyes assumed
hungry look. The Young man
changed to q chant and the dog came
Il little nearer. and his under lip fell
down like. the end hoard Of a coal
cart \ man who was looking
through the KEY hole Of the door re
marked that he wouldn't he in there
for forty million dollars, and the ex-
cited whispers Of the crowd seemed
to excite the dog. lie uttered sev-
rral more @rowlS and in his own Ian
@uagr inquired: What 10 YOU take
me for anv wav:" Madden ha! faith
and struck up The Green Shores of
ireland. lie hadn't even cited the
.'green shores" before the ,'ross-eyed
Terror laid hold Of him hy the hip
and gave him a scientific toss. Next
moment fiddle and dog and howl and
erowl were all mixed mp together
Madden shouted for the crowd to
rush in, and the do" growled out that
that was private cotillion, with no
admission for outsiders The yOung
man lived about u year and half in
less than Il minute. He went over
the stove with whoop, around the
table with yell, and felt his cost
tails 90 off as he stopped for an in
Stant to raise the window sash. The
crowd rushed in - soon aS they un
,lerStOOd what was going on. They
found Madden lying on his face. AMI
the dog was trying to get Il hold
somewhere so that he could lift him
up and administer the terrier
shake" They pounded the canine
with chair. kicked his ribs, and
yelled for him to let 60, and finally
they had TO throw 4 pail of cold wa
ter over him. Mr.. Madden could
hardly ret up, anil when once up he
sit down. He had bites all
nver him, and few thrown in Ito
boot" and the largest piece of his
valuable fiddle was in~t the size of
an Arizona tooth-pick. The doctor
is still putting plasters on hum and
as fast ~ he thinks he has got the
bites all plastercd he turns the patient
over and finds two or three more.
4 hand organ or horse-iiddle may
'soothe the savage breast" but viO-
i'm won't. and all Sixth street will
bet on it.