The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-10-25
DuTY's Dog.


"What is the trouble with the
Minister" said the groceryman 70
the bad boy. "He was in here
this morning with the tail of his
black coat sewed up, and when asked
MIN to sit down he said he was stand
ing up almost entirely now, 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.
nope you have not done anything you
Will be sorry for?" at wasn't me ut
all. 1t was Dutfy's dog" said the boy,
as he broke out with laugh. You
see, the minister felt rs though he had
been cross to me when l asked ques-
lions of him, and he met Inc on the
street and apologiZod, and said here
after he would try to show a Christ
ian spirit and would answer any QueS-
lions | might ask him. 80 began to
ask him now he thought it .MS1S that
Daniel had such con rol over the Lions
when they cast him into the tA,e
told him l thought Daniel had
chloroform on his handkerchief.
and when the lions got sniff
OF IL They didn't want any
Daniel in thtirs. hut he said that
wasn't it. lie sdId it WAS the powrr
OF man over the brute creation ard
showed the efficacy of prayer. lie
SAID Daniel prayed three times every
| day, and then locked the lions right
In the eye, and Il ION would II hava
gall enough To cat II man that l,oii.l
straight in his eye. To illustrate, he
said lac could look Il vicious doG right
IN the eye and q q dog would turn
TAU and run, and just then we passed
Duffy's, and the dog barked and
growled, and the minister said he
would demonstrate to me the power
OF the human eye over the brute, and
he went right into Duffy's yard.
Well, knew that dog, cause Duffy
used to raise melons, and went right
up tree. l didn't want that dog 20
think | was trying to play any Daniel
business on him, because every little
while Duffy has to take file and pry
pieces of pants out Of that dogs teeth I;
so 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 1 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
he hadn't tried to pull the dog over
the picket fence. The minister is
usually very deliberate man, but
when the dog began to tangle his
teeth up in his coat tail he felt it was
good to be somewhere else, and he be-
gan to go away to look some other
dog in the eye. l guess Duffy's dog
is not the right kind of dog to look
in the eye. l think some dogs is diff
ferent about being looked in the eye.
The minister looked like flying
trapeze performer when he came
over that fence. They needn't tell
me our minister never beloged to a
gymnasium, cause he couldn't get
over a fence that way and always
have been a good little boy who never
stole melons. could tell by the way
he got over the fence that his neigh
borS used to raise melons when he was
boy. Well, Duffy was taking nap
but he woke DIP and came out and
called the dog off, and the minister
went off, and when Duffy chained up
the dog l came down. am not yet
convinced about that Daniel business
and until the minister demonstrates il
| shall hold to the chloroform theory
And SO the minister wouldn't sit
down? 1 thought that dogs teeth
had been fled"