Orangeburg news and times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1875-1877, 1875-04-03
a Remarkable pog;'

!. narkcu MI. Iammqn, us he lsaDed
back i'll his chair, threw one leg over
q pile Of exchanges, alfd ran lis fiji fiji
gers through 'lis gray hair: a}HTalk
about smart dogs,fI. rniseda.R dig once
Wy!hliltqll Wy!litl' WAS ust29nsidcrably, the smart,
est al.imal 1 ever saw or read Of.
Never knew Whit breed he whs; Kind L
o. pecnliar-siemed to hAye dil'Nflie
best points Of the whole spccics. Il He
came to me in q singular manner, too,
when he was no morn ii three months
old. Heard ascratclsin' at. The door.
one cold winter moynin', sss | was
maxim z fire. Qpcnc,l the door; md
III, III walked That ere pup, ll,e first
thing he done waast Wipe lis feet On
The mat 'Thelyhc pushed ii St. 'ol up
TO the stovS anfsct i down. j oil ft;antt
Ncid his paws ZIP to warm. Afser nhe
gYt clornior!aMo he asked nc to adopt
Be- trutl, now, and Of
course don't preHI mc>in The iSn.
p'ia, p'up actually yptnf lis Jocks, his man.
5a.. ga,sil ia.'HfTtt aa.'HfTt d'yc'callat pantominc,
~so perfect that / khcw just What
Tie wanted. l never went much on,
dogs as a general thing, but I couldn't
go back On one of such extraordinary
promise 40 this. I kept him, aid We
named him I,asslcr. He was is iInita!!!
tive as II Chinanan-i>;cke ell UP, tiiinr
lastcrn n child. He took to- the chii
drcn right away-l;ked them rs well
rs though they.aliad been lis own own
brothers andsssistors-and they come
to consider him MS ono Of the fam;iy.
He Learned all that was possible from
the limited facilties afforded on the
farm, Before he was a year old he
could ride horses, tend the baby. tjick
up chips, and do thousand other.
useful and amusing things OLA, my,
oldest boy, had learned him ia whistle
and .twouid do you good to haves
lAssler utilize that act omplish,ientI.
Ynn know a rabbit Will stop Gisvou,
whistle to It, Well when lie Got after
y rabbit, and it Was ubont 81 get away
from hilElfed stop and wEistle. The
tH3lisli srh GbGit;8o9lq Ilis,ei,
gi g9gsi; = dShayc u I'M,
beck ilS tsss thDlii u an iiiii tc
e. 8 SaUn;sj
When We: cht tEnftf coon hun Il isnss
that dog. No need to cut down any
trees: spllc would just Skin l'up tree
like II squirrel, and shake coon or u
poSsnm out i'll u jilly. One Of his Ia
voriic' pastImcs was to take Il. small |
pail a.td SO out III the meadow and
drown out ground-hoss. getting the
writer from Il pond in tho ncghbor-
hood. ,'
Once I took Russlcr to town with
M, and rs it was election day. I al
lowed n,ysel to get rather more liouor,I
aboard tlan could conveniently c,r-
ry. About three o'clock in The after.
noon started home, taking the itiil-
road track. III had not gn,,d far bell
fore The whiskey made me stupid, and
l laid right down on the. track, nnd>
went dead drunk. Rasslcr tried every ever
way 10 get me off to the side Of tho
road, but | was heavy and soiisclcss, !.
and he couldn't bulge me. A train
vas coming, and in ten minutes more
! wonld have been run over. Now,
gentlemen, what do you ihihk tllat
dog did? Excuse me, but can not
rcplcss the rising tear wien l think
how that animal saved my life. He
grabbed my red bantlann,t l,nndkcr-
chief from My pocket, and rin toward
the train, and signale,l it,1ianil. Thy
george, sIoppcl:it, and saved me-, y rs
"a "Bat inlis death he exhibited a
~ ~ eater degree ofgratitu,lc and intelli-'
~ ce thrn ho had ever done before.
@ boys had learned him to smoke,
zss ,c became such slave to tobac-
| feared it would impair his
faculties. l tried to break Kim
Sabit by whipping him., but ii
ssS5 od. He'd steal ofTsomc place
&c. i'm spite ofall c.nld do.
night lid went to sleep iii
81 with Il pipc:in his mouth,i
fell out on some straw and
pie place was in "a blaze.
AL I'D in time TO nrouse