The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-07-05
Johnny's Essay on Dogs.
New York Iutige.t


 The Dogs is great Sourse of national wealth but the Buffalows is nearly ex- tincted. The Dog is domestic animal like the Wolf and Fox but most dogs wont stand it if you tramp on their tale he is knockternal in his habits bu. he don't squeel like the Mules & pig. We have three dogs and Uncle Ben says all :, ain't worth damp plug of tobacco to miss. If you don't give dogs enough to eat he becomes so avaricious that he will attack Human people, and on aceoun, of his great Fidelity to Man he is called the King of Beas:s. The dogs are rumi. hating animal and if he had horns he would chaw his quid. You can know he is dreaming when he wants to bark and can't get his mouth open, but if some thing 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 faith full Companion Of lonely traveller and when our Watch sees a peddler or some body going apast our house he lays low till he gets past then he slips up behind and bites his legs-Every dog has his day-Bill Thompson says that's the Law and you can't get over it and he says the Dog Days vas made so that every dog could have their days all at once, our Teacher belongs to the Wolf Family but Uncle Ben he laughed, he said he knowed better than that with his one eye shut, for he said he bets a wolf would be doggoned nice Family Man. This Faithful Animal Guards the house at night while all the house is Raped in Peace full Slumber and Bill Thompson he says if dog has wool in his tech the next morning its sign he teared sheep that night And dog aint no Beast of Pray, but our teacher she says tha, don't mean that he's worse than other people for she says it don't mean that kind of Pray-but the New Found Land dog is the hayries, of the whole Lot who can swim more than a week before he As cends to the surface to Breathe, he is therefore called the Ship of the Desert. And fnglish bulldog is awful onery to look at-Cncle Ben he says if a lnglisa bulldog looks like that he would like to see a Dutch one. Bill Thompson he says they are called Inglish Bulldogs be- cause he says in lngland the people use them for bait when they want to ketch bulls. and that kind of ketching fish IS called Bullbaiting, and Bill Thompson, he says if full bloody lnglish Bulldog ketches Holt of Steers nose he is 50 sagacious that he wont let go even if you cut of one of your Hine legs. Dogs is like other creatures and can't talk, but Bill Thompson h. says in Old Times be- fore the war Dogs could talk Latin bu, now no body can talk any more Dog Latin except the professors in the Col. lidges The dogs il Up on the hole the Canniest animals that ever was and Prof. Daisyhead made an address in our school he said if he had knowed as much about Scientif Animals as us Boys he would had show to De President too but he said in them Dark Ages where he was born boys had no show to be Presi- dent but Jo Simmings said he would sooner run a Engine than be President because Garfield killed him, but Bill Thompson says Jo hasn't got back bones enough. Our teacher she learnt to talk french at Miss Krautschwanger's Boarded Schyol and she says if you want to make a dog stand on his Hine legs in french and make Rough, you just say o Reservoir Mon Chair.