The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-10-23
A DASTsRDLY DEED.
Give me leave to speak my mind.
TCh,l,,r,

dogs owned by the editor of the
GRAPHIC. They we're poisoned Sun
day evening last, and died within a
few minutes of each other. Although
for the past few months they have
been under the constant vigilence of
their owner, and kept on the chain
most of the time. they met the fate
Of so many other good dogs in Kim
ball. In some way they managed to
pick up some of the poisoned meat
with which the street was strewn at
that time, in spite of their beng
closely watched.
The English language is inadeqate
to express a proper contempt for the
sneak guilty of this work. That the
earth should be Uttered with such
sermin, and that such wretches should
propagate their own species and in
tllet future generations with their
parasites does more to shake a mans
orthodox faith than anything we
know of. Their depravity and in
human cruelty renders them so hid
eous, that We're they known every
human being would turn from them
with the loathing and disgust a leper
always engenders. A death by some
of their own poison would be toy
good for them.
Gypsy would have been Two years
old OF Christmas next. She was bred
by NJ .McKoon, of Franklin, N. Y,
the largest breeder Of cookers i'll the
U nited States. She vas bought by
her late owner for breeding purposes
and Was never trained. She was .
very a~tfectionatc little animal and
made friends with everyone. Harry
deserves more than a passing notice
although those not lovers of good
dogs may not SO reason, if SO they
will please pardon US. He was bred
i'll Iarrytown, N. Y, from a pair of
cookers imported by S, j. Bestor, of
Hartford, Conn, and was seven years
old. His sire and dam cost up into
the hundreds, and won first prize at
the New York bench shows OF III
rs 10. Harry won first prize in the
puppy class the year following, and
was purchased by the writer shortly
after. He was considered by bench
show judges to be one of the best
cocker spanfels in the United States,
as files of the american Field and
Forest &c Stream will show. He
was thoroughly broken as a retriever
and on all game found in the East
While there he was in almost con
slant use during the open season
either by the writer or friends, tho
latter with whom he would work as
perfectly as with his owner. Those
who knew him and hunted him ii
Ohio, Indiana and Michigan will
sympathize with us in his loss. A
Monroe, Mich, gentleman, who once
saw him retrieve over folty canvass
back ducks from floating ice in Mon
roe Bay one morning, offered through
the columns of the american EieId
to match him for 500 a side agains,
any duck retriever in the United
States. II is not far out Of the way
to say he has j%ourneyed 10000 miles
by rail since we have owned him
As well as being perfectly field brok
en- he vas taught various tricks, and
we could take a column in relating
incidents Of his remarkable intelli
gence. Although repeatedly offered
a big price we could never make NJ
our minds to part with him. Since
coming to Dakota, even whore we had
no use for him, the offers have been
repeated-one by the Mayor of Mar
shall, Tcxas-but as our constant and
devoted companion for years, and as q
part and parcel it seemed of our old
home in Ohio, we could not let him
go. He is gone now, and the big
brown eyes in whose depths there
shows nothing but kindness, love and
fidelity will never again gaze up into
oar W seeking for our slightes'
wish. We are not sentimental, but
we would be less than human did W.
not keenly feel the loss of our'n, who
, in the years gone by had been ouI
companion on so many memorial oc
c~asieEs in our wanderings after til,
tinny and feathered tribe; and who
whether he shared with us the com
: forts of a home, the rough life Of th,
camp or a days outing in the field
and woods, was more than human il
bis affection and fidelity.