New Ulm weekly review., 1881-05-04
Jinlnly's Dog.

Last week l got a beautiful dog.
Father had gone away for q few days
and heard mother say that she wished
she had nice little dog to stay in the
house and drive robbers away. The
very next day a lovely dog that didn't
belong to anybody came into our yard
and made a dog house for him out of
barrel, and got some beefsteak out of
the closet for him, and got cat for
him to chase, and made him comforta-
BILE. He is part bulldog, and his ears
and tail are gone and he hasn't but one
eye and he's lame in one of his hind
legs and the hair has been scalded off
part Of him, and he's just lovely. If
you saw him after q cat you'd say he
was a perfect beauty. Mother won't
let me bring him into the house, and
says she never saw such horrid brute,
but some women haven't any taste about
dogs anyway.
His name is Sitting Bull, though most
Of the time when he isn't chasing ca s
he's lying down. He knows pretty
near everything. Mr.. Travers says he's
''specialist in CATS" which means
that he knows the whole science OF
cats. The very first night l let him
loose he chased cat up the pear-tree
and he sat under that tree and danced
around it and howled all night. The
neighbors next door threw most all
their things at him but they couldn't
discourage him. I had to tie him up
after breakfast and let the cat get down
and run away before / let him loose
again, or he'd have barked all summer.
The only trouble with him is that he
can't see very we'll and keeps running
against things. Ii he starts to run out
of the gate he is just as likely to run
head first into the fence, and when he
chases a cat round corner he will
sometimes mistake stick of wood, or
the lawn-mower, for the cat and try to
shake it to death. This is the way he
came to get me into trouble with Mr..
Martin.
back yard with Sitting Bull looking for
a stray cat that sometimes comes
around the house after dark and steals
the strawberries and takes the apples
out of the cellar. At least suppose it
is this particular cat that steals the ap-
pies for the cook says a cat does it and
we haven't any private cat of our own.
After while / saw the cat coming
along by the side of the fence looking
wicked enough to steal anything and to
tell stories about it afterward. [ was
sitting on the ground holding Sitting
Bull head in my lap and telling him
that did wish he'd take to rat hunting
like Sam McGinnis' terrier, but no
sooner had seen the cat and whispered
to Sitting Bull that she was in sight
than he jumped up and went for her.
He chased her along the fence into
the front yard where she made a dive
under the front piazza. Sitting Bull
came round the corner of the house Just
flying, and l close after him. It hap
pened that Mr. Martin was at that iden-
ticular moment going up the steps of
the piazza and Sitting Bull mistaking
one of his legs for the cat jumped for it
and had it in his teeth before I could
say word.
When that dog once gets hold of a
thing there is no use in reasoning with
him, for he won't listen to anything.
Mr.. Martin howled and said s'TalSe
him OF my gracious the dogs mad. >
and said .'Come hear sir. Good dog.
Leave him alone' but Sitting Bull hung
on to the leg as if he was deaf and Mr..
Martin hung on to the railing of the
piazza and made twice as much noise as
the dog. I didn't know whether I'd
better run for the doctor or the police,
but after shaking the leg for about a
minute Sitting Bull gave it an awful pull
and pulled it off just at the knee-joint.
When I saw the dog rushing round the
yard with the leg in his mouth I ran
into the house and told Sue and begged
her to cut a hole in the wall and hide
me behind the plastering where the po-
lice couldn't find me. When she went
down to help Mr.. Martin she saw him
just going out of the yard on wheel
barrow with aman wheeling him on a
broad grin.
If he ever comes to this house again
I'm going to run away. It turns out
that his leg was made of cork, and I
suppose the rest of him is either cork
or glass. Some day he'll drop apart
on our piazza then the whole blame will
be put on me. J1iinsnsy Bro,cn,'' il
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