San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-08-17
UPON THE FENCE.
A Mana Dog, and Expsrl.,..

'e "A' "au' young man on On.
side Of the parlor and his girl !, ~
straight backed chair on the otbs,a;,'
hs looks wise, winks at his dauob,s'
yawns and goes off to bed. But .;s
last Sunday night he has turnd ovs,'
new leaf, and made a rule tba,
young man shall visit there with a A..
1t seems a young man who has call,
several times owns large NewfounS
land dog, and thinking it would !.
safer to go home late at night protest.,
by dog, he had allowed the old dos,s
go along, and he left him on the i,or,
step to wait. About ten o'clock n n
the father arrived in front of his hons.
with bandbox under ZONE arm, cor
tanning new bonnet, and in the Other,
market basket containing turkey u,
Sunday dinner. When he got abou,
ten feet from the verandah, and va.
going along quiet, SO as not to distu,b
the family, the dog gave two short
barks and long snarl, that fairly
caused Mr.. Skeezicks' hair to lift hi,
hat. He stopped suddenly, turned pale
and, "pretty doggy" though it was 50
dark that he could not tell whether bs
was lying about the appearance Of the
dog or not. Mr.. Skeezicks is a brave
man generally, but he is afraid as death
of dogs, and while he couldn't see the
dog, he felt by the long continued snar,
that seemed to be coming nearer all the
time, that the dog meant business. he
knew he had got to act suddenly, if he
acted at all, SO he dropped the mar.
ket basket and with one bound he
grasped the top of high board fence
and stuck in his toe nails to coup. As
soon as he turned to jump the fence
the dog, evidently taking him for
tramp, started on hop, skip and
Jump, and barking as loud as a fog
whistle, and Mr.. Skeezicks thinks the
dog was very near him when he arrived
at the top of the fence, because piece
of his coat was gone. Once seated on
the fence, he Strengthened out the
dents in the bandbox. which he had
saved from the wreck, and thought the
matter over. With his legs on the
other side of the fence, where there
was cross piece, he felt that he could
stay there in comfort until the young
man came out to go home and called
his dog off, but it was cold, and he
not cavalryman enough to enjoy riding
q fence.
He heard a cracking noise, dasthe
moon come out from behind cloud he
could see the outlines of the dog, and
The animal was eating the turkey. This
was too much and he called the dog
names, and told him to got out, but the
dog looked up at Mr.. Skeezicks and
simply showed his teeth and growled,
rs much as to say, "You stay up there
On the fence and you are all right"
We suppose there never was a man
that said any more quiet cuss words IN
half an hour than Mr.. Skeezicks did,
He could hear the boys and girls in the
oarlor having q good time laughing and
chatting, and he decided to attracttheir
ute alton, but he did not want to yen
ana make them think the house was
ire, so he took his pocket knife ana
threw it against the door. All was
quiet, but they did not come out. Then
le took a bunch of keys and threw them
against the window. At this point the
loor opened little and ayoung mans
voice, evidently full of emotion ana
ce cream said, "Take him Tlge!
rige let up on the turkey and proceeded
o climb the fence, to obey instructions
yhen Mr.. Skeezicks dropped the band
,ox on the dog and yelled to his daugn'
er, and very soon they all came to the
loor and called the dog off, ard Inc
gentleman of the house pick up the traps
nd went in, leaving the turkey ior 'nS
he visiting dog to associate with; "a.
"Did you make any fuss about IL,
re asked as he was telling us about III
Sunday morning after church.
"Fuss?" said he as he looked mao,
What could I say? I didn't want !"
.urt the girls feelings, and L am lOO
much of a gentleman to be discout
eous to any Que in my own house,
hough when went through the ioeI
nd the girl asked me if my coat.~i
Iad got caught in q swinging pnas.,