The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1881-02-03
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ron doHpisod logs above all thinss
Well. - do. but ye knos seripier says
+, there is time ior al things. and ] expect
now's our time for dog We shall bc
clean ca; np with Blissets chickens ef
there amt somebody 10 skeer EN- od;
ihoy re a-rMi,in' u EN- for tia kc.ol folks,
and can't spend my days aAppin' my
|. spern at chickens
Where's Sary'
o Ssry, my sakesi her heads too fall Of
algebry anil iograpby and seeh things TO
!. mind chickens; she could figure EN- of on
= slate I expect. bat they'd ca. mp the let
,uec right under her nose
Well veil whas sort Of dog do you
. wAnt7
want ysller dog; thsy do look so av-
ful spry. i mistrust black cre!un OF all
sorts and kinds. and white dogs just like
: sheep. oonld pat up With 1.-TWO cell
ored one, but / sort Of banker After yal.
Ter dog.
J Well. Ill see; mebbe s.rong's folks can
tSl where they got their'n. I'll ses the
squire.
So do, pa; askin' breath pint no loss.
With which astute remark, Mrs. Tucker
went in to her ebarn, and pa got up from
the log he sat on with the cresk and jerk
OF rheumstic peoplo when they
Change III. place, su, keep We paio.'
rs good DIR. Watts says.
Ephrihm Tucker was man Of his word;
II he was slow he was sure, too, and Hepsy
was delighted. but not surprised, when he
came in just before supper, leading by
string half-grown dog OF q dirty yellow
coler, little picked ont with yellow about
the mnKzle and paws
The dogs head was long and IS sharp
nosed AZ foIs; his ears were clipped to
alert brevity. and his mouth opened back
to tho roots Of those ear, suggesting that
the shears Ind also bcon used 10 en-.
large the opening begun by nature. /,
II was like a pair OF shears opening and
shutting when Rover snapped ata Hy, I
with no further result than to display the ,
red gums, strong young teeth, and lolling {
tongue, that had ample room and shelter y
between the blackcned edges of that aston I
ishing slit in his head. /
or course his name was Roger.
He came from Pete Steel's folks, over TO n
Ratlam; they he'd more'n they wanted, 8
Pete said / come acrost him down street a
a-selln' pea brush, and this here pup q 4
yaup,n along behind him, so thinks me, q
that's jest the dog for Hepsy. Hes real '
young, aud you can kind of eddicste him o
up. ye know, train him mp on chickens, so d
to speak; bend the twig Jest as tho trees 81
inclined to grow, as the copy book ses. Il
Ny land l guess shan't never let him I,
go the way he's inclined to! not unless it's h
my way, answered Hepsy, who WAS accus- G.
toned. indeed, to have her way to sn r h
tent she hardly understood herself
However, she was kind-hsarted uAder a,
all her snap and sparkle, and Rovor being Al
a little touched with the wisdom his O.
foxy aspect betokcned. soon found her n
weak side. Like many another woman b
and most men. for that mAtter--she could fc
be coaxed into anything. a
few whines and wags and anectionate
rubs Of that sharp yellow head against her NJ
gown beguiled her out Of many = dainty il
lnorsel his doggish eyes longsd for. and as O
for chickens, he soon sent terror into all O
their timid spirits; not only did he keep !.
them Off the Tucker premises, bat slack b
he hunted them into the snemy's country, b
aud laid about him 90 sharply there Vas Q,
more than one squsvking and kicking@ie
fowl strewed his path. h
These outcries, OF coursA, brought out =
the Blisssts in force. and Rover had to run Il
for dear life into the swamp, where amid al
tangles clethrA, billberry and alder bushes o,
woven in and out with catbries and clemat h
is, he was safe from human enemies. till G,
darkness shut down, when he sneaked B
home the back way. and ate his supper fr
with tho eagerness Of dog. snd heard cr
many questions a. 10 his absence, which h.
fortunately for him he could not answer. "
Meanwhile, the Blissets grew furious. al
Royer had not been . month in his now At
home before crested Poland hon had her y
leg broken by those sharp white teeth, *
black Spanish ROSTERS back was perma
nently twisted. and big Brahma lost the 10
use OF one wing. while at least dozen OF h,
he short and ysllov legged barn-door cl
Of al for eating. nameless *
though they be--wsre choked or plucked 10
Or tramplcd on till their usefulness wss
Iuite extinct in
Then came one luciless dsy when Ro. Il
yer, in fit OF terror st the gun old Bills le
vet, lying in vai. for him, exploded so near
his ears that one Of them was singed, made "
his way straight for the Tucker kitchen v
instead Of the swamp, his tail cnrled tight a.
n between his legs, his ears limp, and d,
yowls Of the most pitiinl and piercing de-
,crip,ion proceeded from the great mouth =
hat was adorned with chicken feathers O,
ike a mustache. "
Neiehbor Blisset pursued him home, a,
saw the welcome be received, and burst ri
,ut with certain repngnani remarks. I
That's your dog is ii' Well, you'd bet
.sr keep him 10 hum, Mis- Tucker, or III nj
irive through that ere yallcr snout o his'n Ii
pretty quieh nert time. ! aint a-goin' 70 gl
have all my hens killed by that beast nov
tell YEP m
Why didn't Jon keep your old hens to e,
hum thsns They begun it, Hain't We pl