The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1877-05-26
A singular Case of Sym.
Pathy.

We have a setter bitch that. a week
90. gave birth to her fist litter Of pup
lies. We have Il terrier one also, nearly
even wears old, that has had puppies a
number of times, but moi since two years.
these setter puppies made their
,ppearance, the terrier at every oppor-
,unity crept into the room where they
we're. and gazed wi-tfully and long ngly
at them in their box. A few days ago
Dne of the puppies died. aud was thrown
among The weeds in a lot nea by. We
do not know ifthe terrier saw it thrown
there, bnt she found it and brought it
to the house. 1t was taken from her and
thrown away. but she again recovered
it and carried it to a hiding place under
the door steps. On occasions "hen she
had puppies she was always fiercer than
usual, dashing about with her brist'es
up when any strange person came about
and darling to her puppies. She made
the same TODD about this dead puppy
and two days ago We noticed that her
udders and teats were much swollen and
full of milk. She wa put in the box
with the setter pups. and sucked them.
showing herself much more OF an adept
in the business than their W mother.
She seemed perfectly happy when Put
with the puppies. and performs all OF u
mothers duties towards them. She can
not be enticed to leave them. anda when
mt ont. crawls under the floor so as to
lie as near them as possible. Both bitch
o., mother and foster-mother, the com-
paratively large setter and the little
terrier, lie together with the puppies. In
perfect peace and without jealousy. du-
ring the night as we'll as in the day
While the real mother is AS attentive as
she can be. the terrier is all devotion
| and happy in it. She will not leave i'll
seach of food, while the mother will.
| The cause OF the springing of the milk in
the ndders of the ferries, was evidently
strong sympathy, also caused by a
strcng desire to he a mother as shown
by A'r conduct, and treatment of the
dead puppy = Opelousas Journal
If the editor of the Opelousa'
Journal was named Washington
there would be no doubt that bt
is a lineal descendant OF tina
small boy to whom an lllustriou'
father presented Il little hatche
but there is no way by which ont
can make jackson spell Wa
hington, and therefore there re
maius good reason to suppos'
that Jackson IS not a descendan
of the boy ''who couldn't tell
lie" The editor of the SENTINEL
knew the editor of the Journo
pretty well, some years ago. The.
travelled for years together il
search of health ; they have slep
beLeath the dark shadows of tn
same trees, they we're drenche'
by the same rains whist adm
ring the waters rushing dow
the hill sides, and each other
back, they dozed around tn
same smoky pine knots, and wo
dered whether they were ottheca
casian or african race. they hear
the same bumbshells explodin
l about their heads and listened t
:, the music of the same mimi
q balls when both Of them wishe
they were at home in their trul
{ die beds, and during that tim
no one ever suspicioned ,,ackso
to he any other than man OF j
tregrity and roman virtue.
: Still the above yam looks SUI
s picisious. The Opelousas editor
may have fallen into suspicion
s company. The story does we
v enough except that ''sympathy
e Sympathy Is a good thing
r it's place. A siege of fifteen weel
: with who6ping cough wi
If satisfy any doubling mind of il
Soporific Influence. OpelouSas
a nice little Town, and there al
clever, sociable, generous Peep
living in it. 1t is situated iu I'll
Is open prairie where the sea breez'
l. are exhilirating and the perfum'
of the prairie blossoms lusciou
D. But in its suburbs Tom And
g son has grown up, and there
. no telling what a town that b;
produced Tom Anderson, ca
bring forth, espially in the W,
of dogs. The whole subject is re
pectfully referred to;the Sugar h
"a ter man tor his opinion to be e
dorsed thereon, and forwarded
the s to I commission and if tn
ia do not consider that second IN
Their "Aliunde" the sympatl
70 must go down to prosperity
y. an established fa.t.