Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-10-24
The New York Evening Post, a. the Dog
ig) Noble.

The New York Evening Post, a. the Dog
ig) Noble.
The persistent cutlery of the New York
Er,uing Post on the subject of the Mul-
ligan letters, recalls to Il Trihluc cor
respondent the funny article of Mr.
Beccher's, ON the Dog Noble" Some of
the POSTS falsehooiS are certainly quite
equal in 'utter''n ness and barren ness, to
those of the Fremont campaign, and its
barking at the Mulligan hole is quite rs
persistent and ineffective a. was that of
the New York EJprtS> at Frcmont's
Catholicism. The article is still good
reading and none the less 50 because
Mr.. Bcecher has lately himself been doing
some barking at an empty hole
The Dog Noble and the Empty Hole.
The first summer which we spent in
lcnON. we had along very Intelligent
dog. named Noble. He was learned in
many things, and ny his dog-lorc excited
the undNing admiration of all the chill
drcn. But there were some things which
Noble could not learn Having on one
occasion seen Il red squirrel run into Il
hole in Il stone wall, lac could not lie per
~uaded that ne was not there forever.
several red squirrels lived close to the
house and had become familiar, but not
tame. They kept mp II regular rump with
Noble. They would come down from the
maple trees with provoking GOODNESS, they
would run along the fence almost within
reach. they would cock their tails and sail
across the road to the barn and yet there
was such well timed calculation under
all their apparent raShnesS that Noble in
Variably arrived at the critical spot just a.
the squirrel left il.
On one occasion Noble was so close upon
his red backed friend that, unable to get
up tine maple tree, he lodged into a hole
IN the wall, ran through the ChiukS,
emerged AT Il little distance and sprung
into the tree. The intense enthusiasm OF
the dog ut that hole can hardly be de
SCribcd. lie filled ii full of barking lie
paused and scratched us if undermining IL
( DaStiun. Standing at a little distance, he
would pierce the hole with Il gaze as in
tense and fixed rs if he We're trying mag
nctNm on it, Then, with tail extended
and every hair thereon electrified, he
would rush at the empty hole with a pro-
dIgiouS onslaught.
The imaginary squirrel haunted Noble
night and day. The very squirrel himself
would run up before his face into the tree,
and, CrouChcd ina crotch, would sit silent
IL watching the whole process OF lombard
ing the empty hole, with great Subricty
and relish. But Noble would allow of no
doubts. His convictions that that hole
had squirrel in it continued mistaken
for six weeks When all other occupations
tailed, the lOlc remained 10 MN. W men
there were no more chickens To harry, no
pigs To bite, no cattle to chase, no children
To rump with, no expeditions to make with
the grown folks, ana when he,had slept all
his dogship would hold he would walk
out of the yard, yaWu and stretch himself,
and then look Wistfully AT the hole, as if
thinking to himself, well, there is nothing
else to do, / may rs well try the hole
again.
We had almost forgotten this littlrtrait
until the conduct of INC NCW lOb FIR
press, in respect Col Fremont : religion,
brought it ludicrously to mind again.
Colonel Fremont is, and always has been,
as sound Protestant as John Knox ever
was. lie was bred iu the Protestant faith,
and has never changed. He is unaCquaint
ed with the doctrines and ceremonies of
the Catholic Church, and has never attend
ed the services of that church, with two
or three exceptions, when curiosity, or
some eXtrinsic reason, led him rs wit
ness. We dom state this ON vague be
lief We know what we say. We say 1t
upon our own personal honor and proper
knowledge. Colonel Fremont never was,
and is not now, n Roman Catholic. lie
has never been wont to attend that church,
Nor has he in any way, directly or lnulrect-
", given occasion for tins report,
1t is gratutous falsehood-utter, bar
rem, absolute, unqualified. The story has
been got up for political effect. III Is sun
circulated for that reason, ana, IKE other
political lies, it is Il sheer INSCRIPTIONS
falsehood from top to bottom, from the
core to the skin, and from the skin back to