Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-01-15
Dufy's Dog.
From peck's Milwaukes SUM

From Peck's Miiwaukee Sum-
"What is the trouble with the minister?n
said the grocery man to the bad boy. HE
was in here this morning with the tail of his
black coat sewed up, and when asked him
to sit down he said he was standing up al
most entirely now, and when Iasked him
if he had seen you lately he said he had, to
his sorrow, and he never wanted to see you
again. I hope you have not done anything
you will be sorry for?"
sit wasn't me at all. It was Duffy's
dog" said the boy, as he broke out with a
laugh. ''You see, the minister felt as
asked the questions of him, and he met me
on the street and apologized. and said here
after he would try to show Christian spir-
it and would answer any questions might
ask him. 80 began to ask him how he
thought it was that Daniel had such control
over the lions when they cast him into the
den told him thought Daniel had chic
reform on his handkerchief, when the lions
got a sniff of it they didn't want any Dan
iel in theirs, but he said that wasn't it. He
said it was the power of man over the brute
creation, and showed the efficacy Of prayer.
He said that Daniel prayed three times every
day, and then looked the lions right in the
eye, and a lion wouldn't have gall enough to
eat man that looked straight in his eye. To
illustrate, he said he could look vicious
dog right in the eye and the dog would turn
tail and run, and just then we passed DUFF
fy'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 Butfy's yard.
Well, knew that dog, cause Duffy used to
raise melons, and | went up a tree. didn't
hot 20 frvi m, nile
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, SO
got up on limb. The dog looked at the
minister O. minute, and the minister looked
at the dog, and when the dog began to lick
his chops / says to myself, Daniel, you bet.
ter be getting hence;' but Daniel didn't ge;
hence TIL it was everlastingly too late. But
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 de
liberate man, but when the dog began &c
tangle his teeth up III his coat tail he fell
that it was good to be somewhere else, and
he begun to go away to look some other dog
in the eye. | guess Duffy's dog is not the
right kind of a dog to look in the eye.
think some dogs is different about being
looked in the eye. The minister looked
came over that fence. They needn't tell me
our minister never belonged to gymnasi
um, cause he couldn't get over a fence tina
way and always have been 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, bu
he woke up and came out and called the
dog off, and the minister went Oft, ano
when Duffy chained up the dog l cams
down. 1 am not yet convinced about tina
Daniel business, and until the minister
demonstrates it / shall hold to th.
ehloroform theory. And SO the ministe
wouldn't sit down? l thought that dog
teeth had been fled"