Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-10-10

better board around for day r
two. She tried /, reason with pn
that 1t was intended for his good.
to show him that be was making
fool Of himself; but he does not
look at it in that light Say, dc
you think it was wrong to break
him up that way9 He was going
wrong entirely"
80, l don't know. You ai d
your ma are the best judges. Bul
L would have liked to see them girls
climbing up the side Of the store.
But what is the trouble with the
minister said the grocery man
"He was in here this morning
with the tail OF bis black coat
sewed up, and when / asked him
to set down he said he was stand
ing up almost entirely, and when
l asked him If he had seen you
lately, he said he had, to his
sorrow, and he never wanted TO
see you again. l hope you have
not done nothing you will be
sorry for"
at wasn't me at all. 1t was
Duffy's dog" said the boy, as he
broke out with q laugh. "You
see, the minister felt as though
he had been cross to me, when !
asked questions of him, and be
met me ON the street aud apollo
gized, and said, hereafter he
would try to show q Christian
spirit, aud would answer any
questions l might ask him. So l
began to ask him how he thought
it was that Daniel had such con-
troll over the lions when they cast
him into the den. I told him
| thought Daniel had chloroform
on his handkerchief, and when
the lions got a sniff they didn't
want any Daniel in theirs, but be
said that wasn't it. He said il
was the power of man over the
brute creation, and showed the
efficacy of prayer He said that
Daniel prayed three times every
day, and then looked the lions
night in the eye, and lion would
not have gall enough to eat man
that looked straight in his eye.
TO illustrate, he said he coul
look a vicious dog right in the eye
and the dog would turn tail and
run, and just then we passed
Dutfy's, and the dog barked and
growled, and The minister said he
would demonstrate to me the
power of thu human eye over The
Di ute, and he went right into
Dutfy's yard. Well, l knew that
dog, Cause Duffy used to ruise
melons, and l went right up u
tree. / didn't want that dog to
think l was trying to play any
Daniel business on him, because
every little while Duffy has to |
take a file and pry pieces of pants
out of that dogs teeth, so l got |
up on limb. The dog looked at
the minister minute, and the |
minister looked at the dog, and |
when the dog began to lick his
chops / says to myself, Daniel, |
you better be getting hence, but
Daniel didn't get hence till it was
everlastingly too late. But l
guess he would have saved his
coat if be hadn't tried to pull the
dog over the picket fence. The
minister is usually very deliber.
ate man, but when the dog began
to tangle his teeth up in his coat
tail, he felt that it was good to be
somewhere else, and he begun to |
go away 10 look some other dog
IN the eye. / guess Duffy's dog
is not the right kind of dog to
look in the eye. l think some
dogs ia different about being
looked in the eye. The minister
looked like flying trapeze per-
former when he came over the
fence. They needn't tell me our
minister never belonged to a
gymnasium, cause he couldn't
get over fence that way, and
always been q good little boy who
never stole melons could tell
by the way he got over the fence
that his neighbors used to raise
melons when he was a boy.
Well, Duffy was taking a nar,
but he woke up and came out aud
called the dog off, and the minis
ter went off with his hand on
where his coat was tore, and
when Duffy chained up the dog l
came down. | am not yet con
vinced aboutthat Daniel business,
and until the minister demon
strates 1t l shall hold to the
chloroform theory. And SO the
minister wouldn't sit down. l
thought the dogs teeth had been