The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-03-16

"What is it, Pickle ?" he exclaimed at
last, reused from his reverie, and look
ing down ut the dog. "What is it, my
girl ?"
Bow, WOW, WOW y
That's very general answer, my
doggie."
At that moment some peculiar idea evil
IDENTIFY flashed across his brain, for, look
ing earnestly at the dog, he exclaimed,
"By Jove I've good mind to try the
experiment Let me just read it over
again" He walked quickly from the
fireplace to the table, and opened one of
the volumes Mt a marked place. For II
quarter OF an hour he sat, and never
raised his eyes from the book then,
leaving it open, he pushed it little way
aside, and called the dog. 1t was on his
knee in second
Pickle" he said, gently, "would
you like to talk9"
"Bow, WOW, WOW! !"
"No, not to bow, WOW, WOW, but to
talk-like do?"
The dog put his head on one side and
looking at him earnestly, with that pain
full endeavor to understand which every
one who talks to dog must often have
noticed
"Let me see what it says once more, I"
muttered her master, and he turned to
the book again. " HIM POWER of strong
will-condition produced by mesmerism
experiment of Won Glaben*-act on
brain and tongue-transmitted capacity
and sympathetic action ON muscles. Yes,
I'll do it, come what may"
With these words he lifted the dog
from his knee and placed it upon the
table in front of him, so that its face was
on level with his; then he raised his
finger and exclaimed sharply, pickle,
look at me -
The dogs eyes were riveted on him in
a moment. The last rays of the Novem-
Der sun had long ago departed, and the
room was filed with visible darkness,
which gives weird aspect to the COM
monest objects In this obscurity, re-
lieved only by fitful flare from the dy-
ing embers in the CRATE, the pupils of
the animal seemed to the young man
to dilate under his glance, and become
balls of liquid fire. Never for moment
allowing his steadfast gaze to vary, he
lifted his hands quietly from his side and
made the usual passes, adding to them
certain others, evidently prescribed III
the recently-studied article.
At the first few strokes the dog trem-
bled violently, and the bristles rose
round its neck like a ruff. Then it sud
denly became rigid; the jaws dropped
asunder, and the ears were pricked III
almost painful tension.
pickle p exclaimed the young man,
bringing his face suddenly so close to
the dogs that their noses touched;
"Pickle, speak to Inc Say master.
The open jaws closed with Il sudden
snap; the lips twitched spasmodically
the working of the throat showed that
the tongue was violently agitated.
Pickle, if you love me speak.
The words were this time accompanied
by powerful attack on the animal
brain and tongue. The same symptoms
followed the second appeal; and then
from between the clenched teeth there
came, harsh and grating, as though tear
ing its way up the dogs throat, the word
"master
Pronounced in an unearthly tone, the
word, half-expected as it was, had mo-
mentary effect upon the operator S nerves:
but before the current of his influence
over the dog had been destroyed he re-
covered himself, and continued the ex-
pertinent.
do you understand what | say to
you?'
This time the answer fell easily and
softly from the dogs lips. The unused
muscles of the throat had, under the in
fiuence of Won Glabenism, got quickly
Oh oil
into working order. ''I understand all
you say to me-" "Can you speak ex-
cept under the influence? mean, could
you speak ii L Withdraw my eyes from
yOu-so?"
The young man turned away, and de-
stroyed, for moment, the rapport be-
tween the dog and himself. The animal
was powerless to reply. Resuming the
former conditions, the operator then con-
tinued:
do you retain the remembrance of
your former life, or are you oblivious to
the past?'
&C. You use very long words.
=" Is your condition altered? Do you
remember anything that happened to-
day." -,
60 am still your little dog Pickle, and
please will You give me that big bone
you sent away on your plate at dinner
time ?"
Eyes; and every night, if you are
good, You shall have big bone after You
have been mesmerized. Iwant you to go
about into peoples houses and gardens,
and hear all you can, and then in the
evening you must tell me all about it.
Yes and let me go now. L want to
scratch myself, and L can't move my
leg"
Rapidly making the liberating passes
the young man Withdrew his eyes from
the dog, and, instantly springing from the
table, it rolled over on the hearthrug,
and, heaving deep sigh, went off into
doze. 1t was evident that the expert
ment had FRUSTRATED the dog, and left it
weak and languid. For the moment even
the bone was forgotten,
Not mt first did the full meaning of the
feat he hadperformed dawn upon Pickles
master. 1t was only by degrees, as he
sat thinking before the dying embers,
that the revelation came to him of what
he might accomplish with a talking dog.
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