The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-10-04
Fritz in Trouble.

Ola Fritz has been very much
'othered by the town boys who go
vat to his farm and steal his cherries.
'Hay, you tam little rascals," he
raid. 'coom right away down, or l
tick your head off"
They told him to 60 and shake HIM
self.
"Shake mineself, hey? Demmit it
I got somebody to shake mineself.
Here Bool! here Bool -
In answer to his call, nearly
grown dog bounded to the scene.
"Now, Boolr' said Fritz, "you
watch dem velers dot dey don't come
down out, und / gets der COON, and
shoots some stutfn's out OBJ dem."
While Fritz was gone to the house
some distance away, the boys began
devising means of escape. Mother
Necessity, after hard labor, brought
forth hopeful offspring. One of the
boys had strong tishhook, and an
other a stout cord. They fastened
these together and fished for that dog.
After many attempts they at last sue
coed in catching the hook under the
dogs jaw and drawing him up. Fear
ING that the cord would not be strong
enough to hold him until they got
away, they hastily improvised rope
out of their suspenders, made a loop
in one end and cautiously drawing
the dog to them, put it around his
neck, tied the other end to a limb, re-
moved the hook and line, and leaving
tie animal suspended, climbed down
and scampered away. BY the time
thew were we'll out of reach, the rope
came united from the limb and the
dog dropped to the ground. He re-
covered his senses III little while,
the moose not having been very tight.
He was mad, and working his head
out of the loop, he began savage at
tack upon the suspenders, his mouth
bleeding freely from the wound made
by the hook. Thus he was found by
Fritz when he returned with his gun.
Fritz gazed in establishment and hor-
ror, first into the tree and then upon
the dog, and finally exclaimed:
"Mine gracious. vos dat possible:' -
In dazed sort of way he returned
to the house, and the rest of the day
he moped aroud in deep study, &C.
casionallv muttering to himself:
81 ton't believe it ov | toni see ii
mine own self. l nefer pefore see
Something's like dot"
The next morning Fritz-as is his
custom when in trouble-came tc
town, went to his lawyer, and in a
cautious, non-committal way, ques
toned him:
'Exposin' weller got some sherry
drees. Amt dot all right?:'
"Certainly."
"Und exposin' der poys shteal UNI
und der mans dog eat der poys oor
-vos der man exponsible for dot
dog"
"Yes, the man would be held re-
sponsible for keeping savage beast
Have the boys been bothering your
cherries Fritz
"Oh, no, l ton't got some sherry
drees.'
"Then your dog hasn't been chaw
ing anybody up:"
81 toan't got any dog. l Shoes
ask you dose dings, for ven l read ;
story like dot vence | toni believe it.
Fritz concealed this terror until he
got out Of the lawyers Office and ther
he hurried home, saying:
81 vos exponsible, hay? Veil, | Fl,
dot, you bate"
Reaching home, he coaxed Bull ou'
to the stable, and killed him with ar
ak, and then dug hole and buried
the dog and the torn suspenders to
gether. Then wiping tear from his
eye, he said:
81 most soon kill der baby as do
Bool, but he vos get der old Dutch
mans into trouble NIT his appetite
Peter l coover up der susbicions, dot
dey don't find Something's Duet"
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