The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-01-06

but is rather cowardly." 1.-Two dogs
to one bone are bad.'' HE who would
drown his dog calls it mad" "You
must throw stones at the dog which
bites; but fiatter the dog till you get to
the stone heap" and Do not make fun
of the dog till you are out of the vii
lage," perhaps because "a dog and a
cock are always brave on their own
dunghill.'' 50 If he who takes dog by
the ears is bitten, it is no wonder"
A young man is sometimes as foolish
as young dog. To be always under
control is to be like dog in a string.
A man who is used to submit to harsh
treatment is like dog which goes on
foot and with bare head. He lis treated
like dog sometimes, and especially if
! he comes in like dog at ninepins, or
even when he is not wanted. Love me
love my dog, is advice recognized in
| different countries. but it is French to
call the chief man dog with a grand col
lar. More curious is the saying between
dog and wolf, to denote dim dawn in
which objects can scarcely be distin-
guished. We could add several others
| from French sources, but we wish tc
give few examples from elsewhere,
and more particularly from the German.
Here we find that some people should
not be squeamish; if they 60 over dog
they must go over the tail. This re-
minds us of the saying: When you have
| swallowed the OK, don't make a fuss
about the tail. A German, like many
more, may be as hungry or as weary as
a dog; and when he labors under a de-
lusion sees a blue dog. That the dog
bites the hindmost, is as true as strong
er utterance known among ourselves.
He is in destitute condition who has
not dog to draw out of the oven. Do
not blame the innocent, it rests not
with the dogs how many horses shall
die in the year. The hare mig ~ the
fastest, but many dogs are the eeas& o1
the hare. Nobody cares to own Q dog
which is everybody's companicH.
| When they have nothing the FheMist
will tell you that you will find the dog
in the pot. The Dutchman may be as
snappish as a young dog. The Italian
says no dog is so bad as not to wag his
tail; that dog which barks never bites
which is scarcely true; and, woe to the
skin of snarling dog unless it be strong
or tough. The Spaniard says, If yot
wish your dog to follow you give hin
bread; and yet he says, When your dog
wags his tail it is not for you but fol
the bread. He thinks, too, that well
bred dog always dreams of hunting.
The Turks have few good sayings
one of which is, "the dog barks and tht
caravan goes by; mere noise is moth
ing" Another is that GO the dog which
is led out to hunt against his will take
no game The Arabs have observed
that :" every dog barks at his own gate,
and that '' a dog which runs is bette
than lion which lies down. They
think it a foolish thing to draw the dog
teeth and bark yourself; but, having NJ
great confidence in the animal they say
Is Pat dog ON the jaws till you cal
muzzle it" From the Chinese we lear
that g dog which raises its tail de
spises it's foe;" also, that - he who beat
a dog should think of its master. Othe
rough-and-ready sayings of theirs are
that 50 the dog in its kennel howls a
the feas, but the dog which is huntini
does not feel them," and that sit is nc
the dogs fleas that make the cats cry out.
> None of the ancient stories about dog
1 surpass one told by Bochart, who say
that when he wrote dog was living a
l Paris which had watched for allnos
three years at the grave of his maste
in the cemetery Of St. Innocents an
could not be persuaded to leave il
Once it was seized and taken to anothe
part of the city, but a. soon as it got il
: liberty it went back to the grave. Thi
= was in the year 1860, and during tn
! ! winter the snow had been very deep an
: the cold most intense. Bochart add
( that if any reader is anxious to kno'
how such dog lives, let him undel
: stand that the Inhabitants, struck wit
!. the novelty of the thing, supplied hill
q abundantly with bread, which they sen
y to the grave where he sits.-Londo