Morning journal and courier., 1884-10-10
GrP AND DANDY.
How Dogs are stolen in New York.

the seasons Anything edible was disposa-
 ble. That peddler struck the early tide of mackerel, the food of strawberries, and was 1 doated on with the final wave of bananas. l He was rather polite peddler, and his stock was better than the average. I might be- speak the day beforehand what wanted, and the quality of the goods delivered was always fair and at about market rates. had | had very sick child, and once my wife, with her chi1d's illness on her mind, told the ped | dler of it, when he said that one of "his kids l was pretty poorly" when my wife sent him | out some jelly for his sick child, which l tion on her part he seemed never to forget. never ceased wondering why this man 1 changed horses so frequently. It could not l have been for the reason that the animals 1 wore out from dragging the light loads in his wagon. One day l saw our peddler driving l fast horse When he stopped at the house 1 day or so afterward l complimented him on his turnout
 ''It was fair horse," he told me, land it I costs me no more to keep 8 good one than 9 | bad one They never eat their heads off with me. I can take vicious beast and work him l in my wagon and take the devil out of him. l He learns to know my voice, and I can do l most anything with him; or, for that, l can tame any kind of beast. That horse ! there now was most a give-away. He smashed up a dude two months ago and liked to kill his groom I lowered his feed for two weeks 1 and now he's as gentle as lamb" 1 E'Then you trade in horses?"
 sEYes, and most anything. When that scar on his knee has the hair growed out
 over it shan't take less than two hundred dollars for him. It he can't make mile in three minutes you can shoot him."
 But he may break somebody's neck.
 That isn't my lookout"
 1 Just then my little dog Clip, as pretty a 1 Skye as ever was seen, bounced out of the 1 house and, as is his habit, began barking at | the horse. Clip is peculiar little brute who
 makes few friends. I fancy because he snapped at the fingers of one of the judges at the late dog show that that was the reason 1 why he was given only third award, while l ill all justice first place should have been
 accorded to him, for between my Clip and l Dandy, dog belonging to a friend of mine, it is a toss up. Clip kept on making circles 1 around the horse for awhile, when he 1 changed his tactics and parked at the ped l dler I don't know exactly what the peddler 1 did, but Clip, as if alarmed, gave one sharp 1 yell and shot back into the house with his 1 tail between his legs. Now Clip is bravery 1 itself, and for seven and one-fourth pounds has more pluck in him than any dog of his size. I had bought Clip year before ill l Newark of a dog fancier at price am l l some fourteen months old. After few
 more words with the peddler my servant made some purchase and the man left. l I began then to notice at once certain amount of uneasiness the part of Clip. Whenever l the peddler approached the house the dog I was alarmed. The sight of the greater part | of these small dogs is defective, but their 1 sense of smell is wonderfully acute. The | dog whenever the peddler was outside, | would run up stairs and whimper and seek ! his little mistress. After while Gip's l combativeness got the better of his eau l tion, and he would fly in regular fury I whenever he saw the peddler.
 l I have had great deal to do with dogs, and have been in the habit of making a mental note of their actions. I am as l much believer in their emotional instincts 1 as is M. Romanes. Somehow or other l associated the peddler with Clip. Now, as 1 the end of fully fifty per cent. of the pet dogs in New York is that they disappear l at one time or another, l kept a very sharp 1 eye on Clip. Sure enough, one day the l dog could not be found. The family were l in despair As to myself, I was quite con 1 fident that the peddler had something to l do with Gips disappearance. I did not want to spend money in advertising for him. What I thought I would do would ] be to act my own detective. Next time { the peddler came to my street l would e1- 1 ther follow him myself or one of my sons would do it. Probably if the man kept l stable the dog would be there. It was pre- l sumable that in addition to horses, macke- l rel and peaches he traded also in dogs. 1 l was exceedingly annoyed, Apart from the 1 dogs value, what distressed me most was l that little daughter, sad invalid, was crying her eyes out over Clip. Would the 1 peddler come next day on his beat: 1 l ensconced myself in window up stairs. l I was ready to follow him if it took all day I soon heard his rancous cry: 'He- ye-ah-r-re fine grapes" was astonished
 when he came straight to the basement
 door, rang the bell, then hurried back to 1 his wagon, and opened a basket, out of l which Clip was produced, l at once huF- 1 ried down stairs. I did not know exactly how I should act. I felt morally certain that the peddler had something to do with the dogs disappearance. thanked him for Gip's return. I offered the man five-dollar I bill, which, strange to say, he declined. l ''The dog must have known me-" said the l man. ''I ketched hlm up most a half mile from here He would follow me. l could not return him yesterday, because I had to 90 to market for a fresh load of stuff. Don't
 ax teo many questions. Anyhow, you are a good customer of mine" He did not seem to want to talk was delighted to get Clip
 back, though the dog seemed very much cowed.s
 The incident never quite passed out of my
 mind. This happened about a year ago. It | was last month, when friend of mine, the 1 owner of Dandy, lost him. Dandy, l have
 said before, is the only rival Clip has in the
 United States An English expert told me
 that without a doubt Clip and Dandys moth
 CT was stolen from her grace the Duchess ot S., at Pau, in 1881. Anyhow there are pc
 culiarities about this breed-hereditary traits 1 "a singular dew-cIaw-which belong only to
 this strain of dogs. The owner of Dandy 1 and the writer of this were always bantering l one another to the respective merits oi
 their two dogs, and as to Dandy's master, ii l anything, he was more of caniphile than
 the writer. At once my friend informed mo
 in person of his loss. He would pay fifty
 dollars-one hundred dollars for him and ask
 no questions.
 | 'EWhen was he lost?" l inquired. Yesterday"
 stYou live how far from heres'
 "You know-fully three miles"
 'sAny peddlers in your neighborhood:'
 FFThat is like when 8 man asks about a
 crime Is there a woman in the case!
 E'Find out from your policemen the ped
 dlers, fruit and vegetable hucksters in your
 part of town. Send their descriptions at
 once. may or may not find the dog. You
 give me carte blanche as to the reward"
 My friend left me, having, however, but
 little confidence in my ability to secure Dan l dy. As soon as got home sent Clip over
 to Brooklyn Now the two dogs were. as
 much alike as peas in q pod. We, the mas ters of them, could sometimes hardly tell 1 one from another As soon as Clip was in Brooklyn I pretended he was lost and made inquiries all over the neighborhood about him.
 The pedd1er did not turn up for three days. | When he did come I at once stated my loss 1 to him.
 Hadn't seen him." was his curt reply.
 'EHave any peaches?"
 'I don't want your peaches, but the dog. l Come now-an old customer"
 "'When did you lose him?'
 'FFour days ago."
 'sWasn't in the city then. Take my Hum phry Davy was at the races.''
 1 fEGip wasn't lost here. He had been sent to friends house." I mentioned the exact
 locality. "Get the dog back and it's twenty five dollars for him."
 Don't know anything about it. With such nice dog as yours, why don't you take
 better care of him? Any nice peachesp
 ordered a peck of peaches, but could get
 nothing more out of the man. Next even