The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-06-20
JoHNNy,s ESSAY ON DOGS.
The Habits and uses Of the Canine Family Fully
Discussed.

The Habits and Uses OF the Canine Family Fully
Discussed.
The Dogs Is great Sourse Of national
wealth but the Bufialows Is nearly ex-
tincted. The Dog is domestic animal
like the Wolf and Fox but most dogs
wont stand II If you tramp on their tale
he il knookternal in his habits, but he
don't squeel like the Mules & pig. We
have three dogs and Uncle Ben says all
3 amt worth damp plug Of tobacco to
hiss. If you don't give dogs enough to
eat he becomes so ayarlolous that he
will attaot Human people and on ac-
count of his great Fidelity to Man he is
called the King of Beasts. The dogs are
a Illuminating animal and II he had horns
he would chaw his quid. You can
know he is dreaming when he wants TO
bark and can't git his mouth open. but If
something makes our dogs awake at
night Uncle Ben says they make sich
Racket like If all the Hall was broke
loose. Dogs Is a source OF great Pleasure
as the Faithful Companion OF The lonely
traveller and when our Watch sees ped
dler or somebody going apast our house
he lays low till he gets past then he
sneaks up behind and bites his legs
Every dog has his day-Bill Thompson
says that the Law and you can't get over
IL and he says the Dog Days was made so
every dog could have their days all at
once, our Teacher she says the dog be-
longs TO the Wolf Family but Uncle Ben
he laughed, he said he knowd better
than that with his one eye shut, for he
said he bets wolf would be a doggoned
nice family man. This faithful animal
guards the house at night while all the
house is raped In peaceful slumber and
BIZ Thompson says If dog has wool In
his teeth the next morning its sign
he feared sheep that night. And dog
amt no beast of pray. but our teacher
she says that don't mean that he's worse
than other people, for she says IL don't
mean that kind of pray-but the New
Found Land dog Is the hayriest of the
whole lot who can swim more than
week before he asoends to the surface TO
breathe, he Is therefore called the ship OF
the desert. And a lnglish bulldog is awful
onery to look at-Uncle Ben he says II
lngllsh bulldog looks like that he would
like to see Dutch one. Bill Thompson
he says they are called Inglish Bulldogs
because he says In lngland the people
use them for bait when they want TO
ketch bulls and that kind of ketchig fish
is called Bullbaiting, and Ben Thompson
he says If full bloody lnglish Bulldog
ketches n Holt of n Steers nose he Is so
sagacious that he won't let go even If
you cut off one OF your Hine legs. Dogs
Is like other creatures and can't talk, but
Bill Thompson he says in Old Times be-
fore the war Dogs could talk Latin but
now nobody can talk any more Dog
Latin except the professors in the Col
lidges. The dogs is Up on the hole the
Caninest animals that ever was and Prof.
Daisyhead made an address in our school
he said II he had knowed as much about
Scientif Animal as us Boys he would a
had show to be President too but he
said in them Dark Ages where he was
born boys had no show to be President
but 10 Simmings said he'd sooner run
Engine than be President because Gar
field killed him, but Bill Thompson says
10 hasn't got Back Bones enough. Our
teacher she learnt to talk french at Miss
Krautschwanger's Boarded School and
she says If you want TO make dog
stand on its Hine legs in french and make
Bough, you just say o Reservoir Mon
Chair.-T The Judge.