The Portland daily press., 1880-10-27
WEDNESDAY MORNING. OCT. 81.

when there was sudden commotion among
the new corners, and they all screeched in
chorus:
"Why, there's Horace?'
Shades of the Latin poets Horace was q
long, lean, hungry cur-a ''yellow dorg and
as he came tumbing in, hard breathed and
dusty. the passengers drew up their feet and
determined to be civil to that one member OF
the family, at least.
Down on the banks of the Detroit River on
the Canada side there is picturesque little
cabin, where a numerous colored family live
in that sweet abandon of nature for which
such people famous; when the evening
meal of mush and milk is smoking on the
board-literally a board-the turbaned mother
of the young barbarians appears in the door
way, and shading her perspiring brow looks off
into the sunset with view halo, as follows:
"Albert Edward CORVALLIS Wellington
Victoria, come right yer to yer supper this
blessed minitr'
In an incredibly short time the pickaninnies
appear on the home stretch and the one that
makes the best time getting in is Victoria, a
little bowling, handy legged dog that was
raised with the other chilluns."
What's in a name? Romeo and Juliet are a
pair of Yorkshire hounds owned by Mr.. Lin
coin of this city. The imperial Caesars of dog
dom are found everywhere. Marc Antony
makes night hideous on Woodbridge street.
"The little dogs and all
Cleopatra, an imported greyhound, has hei
name curtailed by usage to Cleo, but on the
books of the of the bench it rhymes forth in
all its queenly dignity.
AT the last dog show in New York City the
kennel in which Lady Jane Grey was domi-
ciled was marked Dangerous" as her lady.
ship did not like strangers. Mrs, Darlington
named her dog Moreover" from the Bible
Moreover the dog came and licked his sores. y
The dogs of war, dogs of history and dogs OF
poetry furnish many curious and some famil.
lar names. Mazda, Sir Walter Scotts gigantic
hound. has been copied so often from Land
seer's original painting that even her features
are familiar. And what child does not know
of the faithful Gelert, who killed the wolf by
the cradle of his masters sleeping child and
was himself sacrificed before he could explain
that the child was safe under its overturned
bed?
go where does faithful Gelert roam?
The flower of all his race;
So true, SO brave, a lamb at home
A lion in the chase.
His gallant hound the wolf had slain
To save Llewellyn's heir"
Trowbridge begins his fine poem, "The Vag
abond":
I'VE are two travellers, Ringer and l.
Rogers my dog"
Bob was a dog belonging to fire company
of London, and was accustomed to run up lad
ders into burning houses; he, too, has been i'm
mortalized in verse:
"Show me where poor Bob is buried;
should like to see his grave
Me dog Schneider runs through the mem
cries we keep of Jefferson with wonderfully
sweet thrill.
There are names sacred to dogs. Boz was q
favorite name for English dogs thirty years
ago. Rover is always popular name for mas
tiffs. Prince, Lion, Tiger, Ponto, and Carlos
have long been names familiar to the watch.
dog tribe. Fido and JIp are pet names fol
spanie's Dora, the child wife of David Cop
perfield, and her little dog Jip, make the pref
legs on the hated account book which that prie
David insisted on Doras studying; and theI
the last sad glimpse of the two friends.
Il couldn't have any other dog but Jip,'
said Dora; sit would be so unkind to Jip."
"Oh Jipl it may be never again.
he lies down at my feet, stretches himself
out, and with plaintive cry is dead"