Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1883-10-13
SATURDAY. OCTOBER 10, 1888.
Pack's Boy and the Minister.

what is the trouble with the min
lister 2" said the grocery man. "fle was
in here this morning with the tail Of his
black coat sewed up, and when | asked
him to set down he said he was standing
up almost entirely now, and when | ask
ed him if he had seen you lately, he
said he had, to his sorrow, and he never
wanted to see you again. / hope you
have not done anything you will be sor-
~ for"
1T wasn't me at all. II was DGffy's
dog" said the boy, as he broke out with
Il laugh. "You see, the minister felt as
though he had been cross to me, when
] asked questions Of him, and he met
me on the street and a~pologized, and
said. hereafter he would try TO show q
christian spirit. and would answer any
questions | might ask him. SO | began
to ask him how he thought it was that
Daniel had such control over the lions,
when they east him into the den. ]
told him | thought Daniel had ch!oro.
form on his handkerchief, and when the
lions got a sniff Of it they didn't want
any Daniel in theirs, but he said that
wasn't it. He said it was the power Of
man over the brute creation, and show.
ell the efficacy of prayer. He said
Daniel prayed three times every day.
and then looked the lions right in the
eye, and q lion wouldn't have gall
enough to eat n man that looked straight
In his eye. To illustrate. le said he
could look a vicious dog right in the eye
and the dog would turn tail and run,
and just then We passed Duify's, and the
dog baiked, and growled, and the min
lister 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 I went
right up Il tree. | didn't want that dog
to think | 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,
20 | got up on a limb. The dog looked
at the minister "A minute, and the min
lister looked at the dog, and when the
dog began to lick his chops I says to
myself, Daniel, Jon better be getting
hence but Daniel didn't get hence till
it was everlastingly too late. But l
guess he woaid have saved his coat if
he hadn't tried to pull the dog over the
picket fence. The minister is usually a
very deliberate man, but when the dog
began to tangle his teeth up in his coat
tail, he felt that it was good to be some
where else, and he begun to go away to
look some other dog in the eve. / guess
Dufy's dog is not the right kind ola dog
10 look in the eye. l think some dogs
is different about being looked in the
rye The minister looked like a flyinc
trapeze performer when he came over
that fence. They needn't tell me our
minister never belonged to a gym
nasium, 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 neighbors use1 to raise
melons when he was a boy. Well, Duffy
was taking a nap, but he woke up and
came out and called the dog Of, and the
minister went off with his hand on
where his coat was tore, and when Duffy
chained up the dog l came down? | am
not yet convinced about that Daniel
business, and until the minister demon.
strates il ! shall hold to the chloroform
theory. And so the minister wouldn't
cit down. l thought that dogs teeth
had been fled"