The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-01-04
s. A. on a Dog Show.
BY BEEkUS.

When We started on our own hook, we lefl
home with a new suit of store clothes and tow
ering ambition resolved to see the world anu
either conquer and subdue it, or set 1t on flre
Our pocket WAS filled with - cents and our
noble brow shaded by the extensive rim OF a
CHIP hat. We had read that all great men had
arisen from small beginnings, and even feared
that SO much wealth ~ we had WAS too great
in proportion to the lofty height we proposed
to reach Chalking excelsior" ON our hat we
marched to the nearest town. with the air of "A
lconQuering hero At the first store We struck
we invested our wealth, the % cents, which
had grown too hot to keep longer in our trows
ers, IN a-pOcketb book costing quarter, the
first one we ever had. Though it was empty
we we're proud of it-but we have ceased
long since to love tit has always been pleth-
eric of emptiness falling with ali its success
ser. to III day. But this drawback did M"
dampen our ambition to he great Shakespeare
said Some men are born great some achieve
greatness aud some have greatness thrust upon
them" We hal no claims upon the first class,
scorned ~ dchier' greatness-it requires to"
much work, BIT concluded to have it thrust
upon U.s. Yet, somehow, it has never thrust
worth cent, until last week one morning when
We swoke cte,k IF Il Dug shcp!
As tcutonlc friend would SAY, "Ho~ high
up ish doly" We renonstra,ed We told The
managers that we knew nothing about dogs
that in all our experience We had never known
of dog Q" lost to self regard, 50 Indifferent e.
it. own reputation, ~ utterly cast down, 80
wretched, 50 mean generally a. TO follow Us
| Our presence in y strange nelShborhHh ~et all
the canine race 70 bowling But the s'ric..
insisted that our igsorsucs .as the very thing
needed " make good clerk They Also men
toned ,Lxt poultry would De an adjunct IL The
dog show, and ia addition OF clerk Ut The dog
show, We should hold the other responsible
post Of dDIII.ueAsis u tie cAi;ks! rIcHe1! I""
office. Of such magnitude staggered our hes
lAucy-so to speak. VIZ blu,hingly accepted
Aud gua.h our teeth sud luIolnutIily cia
our hands 10 our .Ar.-in remembrance OF tn
| Ia ,rrld usuiruiouium of pois =, II that week
of our * erionce! An earhQ mse "ou d
have been rest lunatic asylum peace, and
Bedl.m multiplied by ten with Niagara lnr "
IN y, chorus, sweet quiel ness IL c. mpArieun |!
Il hogan Oh Monday and hoSled aud whlneu
yelled aud screamed, crowed and cackied, ~"
Mrd and screlIchrd, snsrled and sio"i,d, buzz
eel and beloved, ana hcil'd uutil sat irda,
might ,this is no protanit, but u fact. W.
J h., Il IN All ";
mo common SHOW, With ony one | IA II Ju l.
,nJ nv the yIrIltIc Ga 10 neratiIn IN Goa
= donation of noises there, more than 20 /.
couldn't do tie subject jus ice) Not Ia mia.
with the freed, al dogs aud sly les I'll chicken
", .nny ret them mixed or irregular, but ~ ~
have inrm oa onr list we found: "uii tcrroE'
vii, wnu'h, like the feed of - thrc>hlng III
r.b,nr. sc, nHc It trap wide open, ready toNnnp
aud ai,rn s,,!t on Any lhing-thc cal "i "a '' d
ilu,,.- lc. or found d,nl at la, hrecrhcs, for Ii,
stance, .p.. have ,o - ,nr the irS tni w,sIt {.
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