Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-08-05

| and planned and devised necessarily,
obstinately. The dog, which slept at
her feet, occasionally lifted his head
with a start, and howled at the empty
air. Since his master had been killed
the dog often howled like that-as if
irving to call him back, as if his in
consolable animal soul was also
haunted by memory which nothing
could efface.
Now, one night while Allegro was
! bowling a sudden idea came to the
mother-an idea worthy of a vindict-
i've and ferocious savage. She thought
over it until morning, and rising at
the first gleam of dawn she hurried to
the church. There, PROSTATE upon
| the pavement, casting herself down
before God, she prayed him to aid her,
to sustain her, to give her poor old
body strength enough to enable her to
avenge her son.
Then she went home. She had an
old barrel in her yard which she used
to collect rainwaterin. This she emp
tied, laid on its side, fixed firmly to
| the ground by means of stakes and
slaves. Then she chained Allegro to
| this extemporized kennel and went
into the house.
She began to walk backward and
| forward in her room without ever
resting glancing from time to time at
| the Sandman coast. He was there
| the murderer.
All that day and all the night fol-
! lowing the dog howled. In the morn
ing the old woman brought him a
bowl OF water, but nothing else-not
even a bit of bread or drop of soup.
Another day passed. Allegro, worn
out with hunger, slept. When morn
ing came his eyes glittered, all his
hair bristled, and he pulled crafty at
his chain.
Still the old woman gave him moth
ing to eat. The brute became furious
and barked hoarsely. Another night
passed.
Early in the morning, Mother Saw
erini went to her nearest nelghbOr and
begged for some wisps of straw. Then
she took some old clothes that had
formerly belonged to her husband and
stuffed them with the straw SO as to
initiate the form of a human body.
Planting a pole firmly in the ground
in front of Allegro's kennel, she fast
ened the manikin upon it so that it
seemed to stand. Then she made
head for it out of some old rags fast
ened into ball.
The astonished dog stared at this
man of straw and stopped bowling,
although tortured with hunger.
Then the old woman went to the
butchers shop and bought long
black sausage, which she took home
with her. She kindled a wood fire in
the yard near the kennel, and began to
cook the sausage. Allegro, wild with
expectation, mad with the odor of the
meat that entered his very entrails,
leaped and howled and foamed at the
mouth.
Then the mother made a cravat for
the straw man out of the smoking sau-
sage. She tied it very tightly around
the neck of the manikin, as if to
was done she unclaimed the dog.
With one tremendous bound thedog
reached the throat of the manikin,
and with his paws pressed against the
| shoulders. began to tear. He fell back
with a piece in his mouth, devoured it,
leaped again, driving his teeth through
the strings tore away another morsel,
| leaped again, and tore away furiously.
He rent away the head with frenzied
| hites he tore the neck into ribbons.
Silent and motionless the old wom-
an watched him, while her eyes blazed.
Then she chained up the dog again;
made him fast for two days more, and
recommended the strange lesson.
For three whole months she accus-
toned MIN to this sort of a struggle
for food-to repasts obtained only by
the strength of his fangs Then she
ceased to chain him; for she had him
so well trained that he would leap at
the manikin the moment she gave him
a sign.
She had trained him even to rend
it, to devour it, when there was no
meat attached to it, AS his reward,
she always gave him big piece of
fried sausage.
Whenever Allegro looked at the
manikin his whole body would culver
with excitement, and he would turn
his eyes to the face Of his mistress,
waiting for her to hiss the words, cat
him!" with finger pointing
When she thought the time had
come, old Mother Saverini disguised
herself as an old, ragged beg
gar, and made a bargain with a
Sandman fisherman to take both her
and the dog across the straits.
She had an immense piece of fried
sausage in a canvas bag. Every once
in while she made Allegro smell it, so
as to excite him. The dog had eaten
nothing for two days.
They entered into I4ongo-Sardo.
The old Corsican woman walked with
a limping gait. She stopped at a
butchers shop and asked where Nico-
10 Ravolati lived. He had gone back
to his old -carpentering. He
worked all alone at the rear of his
shop.
The old woman pushed open the
door and called him
"Hey !-Nicolo! !"
He turned his head she instantly
let loose her dog, and cried out: