Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-06-06
A SMART DOG,
And His "FrOnt" Name is Bulge,
But Not Of the Sara Bernhard Breed,
to Pull Dear Old Monks Out Of
Alpine Shows.

. We have a cunning dog among us
He might be termed comical dog if
he wasn't SO valuable. His owner
thinks he is worth five times his
weight in gold. Indeed, money would
not buy the brute. He isn't very
large dog, but he is good what there
is of him.
This particular dog has pedigree
as long as a law suit, and can run his
genealogical tree back several hun
dred years beyond that recorded of his
owner He can also do cunning tricks.
His hair is Of all colors, including red,
green and blue with the prismatic
hues of the rainbow thrown in as the
French say for lagniappe, which
means for nothing or for
compliment as you please.
This dog has a love for rats. He loves
to scrunch them like old Talkleonts in
the Cricket on the Hearth used to
scrunch crickets. He becomes costa
tic. whenever be gets a chance to
crack the bones of good healthy
rat, gets wild when a trap is put before
him, and if rat is on the inside he'll
jump out Of his skin, through himself
or anything else which a dog can
jump through; indeed like steamboats,
which sometimes run through
themselves, this particular dog will
run though himself in minute.
The animal is not amphibious, nor
would he eat hog, but he'll climb to
the top of man quick; provided
there is trap on the mans head with
a mouse or a rat in it. The antics of
that dog are wonderful, and the neigh
bors Of the owner 80 from far and
near to examine him.
TO man who has no use for dogs
nor for people who act doggish this
story will not be very interesting.
For those fond Of dogs, either alive,
roasted or ready to send to the dump,
the yarn will be an absorbing topic.
Never having studied the dog kind
to any remarkable degree, the
superior qualities of the breed
are not entirely familiar to this
chronicler, but that the dog under
consideration is a dog to make any
fancier'S mouth water, is a patent
truth too firmly established to admit
of dispute.
The pet is a resident of Linden
street, where his owner resides in all
the pride of his heart, surrounded by
his family and this dog. They call
him Bulge" aud he is of the York
shire terrier persuasion. He has many
admirers. In fact, you couldn't strike
a man anywhere, who ever saw that
dog, who could help but admire him,
And now prepare for a head swim.
ming description Of his pedigree,
which runs back through forty gener-
ations Of dog life. Is there a human
being in this community who can run
down his genealogical line that many?
Well, to begin, Bulge was whelped,
that's polite in dog parlance for
birth-whelped in July 1879, which
makes him two years old; you'd think
him thousand to judge by his Gun.
ming ways.
Bulge had brother like Toodles,
and he had father known to fame as
Cavanagh's Dreadnaught. The record
doesn't say what was to be dreaded
about him, but that's the way it is put
down. Then we run back to HoFs-
falls Sandy and Lees Lady. This is
going back on the male end of the
genealogical course. The female is
reserved for closing tit-bit. Next
back of Sandy and Lady comes Binn'i
Spring and Tindale's Gypsey. Then
Hundersfeld's Ben Binn's Venus
(strikes on the muses. here); Rushton'l
Fisk, Whitneys Bazoo and Lilly; AL
bert by Old Soldier, Youngs Kitty
Parsons Teddy and Pink. All thii
carries US to 1863, when this country
ragged and quaked in civil war. Thinl
Of dog knowing who his fathers wert
as far back as that.
Well it is set down among othel
odds and ends that this Ben Of Hud
dersfeld performed" it tdon'tsay what
but of course it means tricks Of SOM
sort. He performed at Manchester
England, in 1869, Crystal Palace 1870
and won seventy-fve prizes besides
Among them was Jumaine's Benson
Fosters Little Kate, Emperor, Mo
} zart "a musical dog, perhaps), Sand!
and many others. Ben's pedigree wa
most astonishing. 1t runs along
line including RoscOvitch's dog, Rams
den's Bounce, Young Dolly "a play
thing Of a dolly, Of course), HudderS
} fields Sandy, Huddersaeld's origipa
; Sandy and old Dolly, Harg's Teddy
J Walshs Kitty, Swift's old Crab anc
Kershaw's Kitty, Healy's house do
! ! aud Walsham's Pink, and he cOul,
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