Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1883-05-05
, \ WATCHDOG.
Devoted to His Master, at the Expense Of
Every Cne Else.
ApARTY or GENTLEMEN WHO
COULD not GET THEIR COATS,

A hen will sit on a porcelain egg
three weeks or more, supposing she is
doing perfectly right; and a watch
dog will sometimes from a sense OF
duty watch where he is not wanted,
and make things uncomfortable about
him. Here is an amusing experience
of some seaside visitors who found a
''faithful' dog of this kind consider
ably III the way:
One of the delights of our expedi-
ton to Marblehead was an experience
with dog. A gentleman living
about half mile from the beach came
to sec what the party had to eat. and
brought with him sixty pound bull
dog.
1t seemed to be. n good natured
beast and frolicked playfully during
the day. About six o'clock the gen
tleman went home. and everybody
supposed the dog went with him.
We found, however, that we were
mistaken. The day being warm, every
man of the party had taken off his
coat and had hung it in the garnet Of
little shanty where the cooking was
done.
As evening came the air grew cooler
The breeze came off the water as the
sun went down, and | concluded to
put my coat on. l quietly slid into
the shanty and started up the steep,
narrow and rickety stairs. AT the top
/ found the dog Furthermore, L
found that he objected to my coming
up. In the dim light | could see
blood in his eye. OF course, went
back without my coat.
Presently the chief of the fire de-
partment went in to get his coat and
he came back without it, too. But he
said nothing, and several others tried
the experiment, and came back the
same way. But finally one gentleman
couldn't stand it, and spoke of the
dog. That broke the ice, and we de-
cided to get the dog down.
We threw things at him and tried
W SCuIc llui away, cuo ho my
growled savagely. Then one of the
party stood at the foot of the stairs
and lied like a pirate, saying:
Mice dog! Good old fellow! Come,
Towserw but Towser was q proof
against hattery.
1t had grown quite dark and the
breeze was quite strong, and every
body was shivering. Meat was of
fered to the dog to get him away, but
he wouldn't touch it.
Things began to be blue. The
handsome yachtsman asked if some
body present couldn't use some bellig-
erent terms. The chief of the
department, being fireman, of
course, didn't know any such terms,
and neither did any of the rest of us.
The doctor said If anybody would
go up and throw the dog out he would
cauterize the bites free of charge, and
our friend of the legal fraternity said
he'd give his services in suit for
damages. But no one seemed inclined
to volunteer
The very heavy gentleman said that
if he could get on the roof and drop
through on the dog he could break
the animals back, but before saying
this he took care to observe that there
was no way to get on the roof.
There was only one thing to do,
and we did it. We sent half a mile
to get the dogs owner While we
waited for him we sat and shivered,
and chartered our.teeth, and told each
other it was funny, and inwardly
thought of things that wouldn't look
well in print
OF course, we treated the owner OF
the dog very politely till he had sent
the dog home and we had got our
coats. Then if we didn't tell him
what we thought of the brute, no mat
ter Youths Companion.