The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-03-17
OUR DOG.
BY KIZER.


two. but one is of the feminine gender. Ny
wife, in feeble and unguarded moment, ad-
mired the dog of dog man, and now we are
paying up for it. don't mean to say that
the man has dog blood in him, but he is one
of these fellows that always has a troop of
dogs at his heel, comes into your Office with
his pack, they smelling around you and
sticking their noses into everything, while he
talks dog, and is unable to see anything ex-
cept their fine points.
Well, as 1 said, my wife was unlucky
enough to make a remark about his dogs
that pleased him, and he at once volunteered
to obtain her one. About two weeks after
wards he came to me, and said he thought
he could get dog for my wife, as he had
promised. discouraged the idea, as we al
ready had little midget of the dog kind
that my wife had taken in out of pity; and
we were beginning to become attached to
her. A day or two after he came hustling
in and said he had the dog he had prom
ised my wife, and if would
get collar and chain we would
go right away and get him. I
was not very enthusiastic, and intimated
We had been, but he said the dog was of
very fine breed, coming over its pedigree,
and said the opportunity was too good to be
lost, and he had been at great trouble to get
the animal, and he was very lncky indeed TO
have been so successful. Seeing no other
chance, i went with him, and stopped at a
hardware store to buy collar and chain.
supposed the pup was small and small
chain would be all that was necessary, but
nv friend began to look at some the size of
trace chains, and said / had better get
strong one and INQUIRED how large the dog
was, and he replied that he was small now,
but would grow. / did not want to get a
chain large enough for an elephant, and we
compromised on a medium-siZed one, for
which paid fifty cents, and as / am not a
millionaire, this was heavy outlay to start
with.
This done, of we went for the prize. A
| few minutes walk brought Us to the place.
| The walk was enlivened by my friend telling
me of the "fne points of dogs in general
| and of this dog in particular. We wendell
| our way into backyard a foot deep in mud,
1 and from the number of dogs there one
might conclude it was either dog hospital
| or factory. The owner of the wonderful an
| imal that my friend had secured was there,
| and he pointed it out, and instead OF it be-
ing small puppy, as L had supposed, it was
| as large as cub bear. After some maneu-
| vering il was captured and the collar and
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| deg man wanted me to get large chain.
| All being ready, took hold of the chain.
/ gave a whistle and started of, expect
| ing the dog to follow me, but he
| had no such expectations, and sat
/ down in the mud in snch a way as to indi-
cate that he was satisfied with his present
| clearinghouse and had no desire for a
change. The two gentlemen remarked that
| / would perhaps have to carry him out of
the yard and out of sight of the other ca
mines. Obeying The suggestion, l gathered
| him up and lugged him out TO the street.
which is one of the principal thoroughfares
of town, and sat him down on the walk and
| gave him few hints and invitations to fol-
| low me, but the more l limited and pur-
suaded the more he didn't take it. He
stuck to the ground with as much tenacity
| as an OfficehOlder clings to office. / pulled
at one end of the chain, and he pulled at
| the other. / thought L would flank him,
| and get in his rear and make him back to
| nv house, but he was not to be deceived.
| He stuck to the one place on the ground as
If he had been glued there. Quite a num-
| Der of kind, sympathetic people gathered
around, who were not backward in offering
| suggestions as to the best mode of pro-
| ceedure. At last, seeing no other alterna-
tive, gathered the muddy brute in my
| arms and walked of, feeling that L was
the owner OF more real estate than ever
| possessed before. Before reaching home
| numerous acquaintance whom l passed on
the street wanted to know if / wanted to
sell that dog, or where in the world did |
| get such a fine animal, and many other such
| pleasant remarks. When l would stop to
rest the passing crowd would look at me
| and my charge as if they thought L had a
trick animal and was the proprietor OF a
travelling dog show. | reached home at
last, tired and muddy, and my wife,
seeing me coming with great black
load III my arms, opened the door
and l tumbled the animal into the hall and
told her there was the little pup that her
friend had promised TO get her. She was as
much surprised as / had been, being led to
believe that she was to get dog about the
| size of ground squirrel. a council of war
was held, and we concluded that we must
keep the thing until we got chance to give
him away. When he was let loose he darted
for a hiding place, and could not be coaxed
out except by physical force applied to the
| nape of the neck. We thought he would
| get over this and become friendly in a day or
two if he was treated kindly. So we fed and
petted and coaxed, but it was all lost. 1
| would carry him back and forth from the
wood-house, thinking by use could make
| friends with him, but without avail. One
| evening when it was time for me to take him
out he had crawled under the bed
| and had located himself about
the center. No amount Of coaxing or push
ing would induce him to bulge an inch.
| not ours; we live in furnished rooms.
could not reach the dog from any direction,
| and rugged pry formy wife to raise the
bed with while / crawled under. When
had Just got my hand on the dog the bed
came down on me, and 1 thought the house
had caved in. / could see million stars,
and thought j was looking at the heavens.
| Ny wife managed to raise the bed up and 1
| came out with the dog. She declared 1t was
accidental in her letting the bed down, but
| have my suspicious that it was done with
| malice aforethought. When left the dog
in the wood-bouse that night mentally re-
solved that ne might stay there until he
rotted, unless he walked out. The next
| night thought would try new scheme.
| got a box and put it in the back yard, and
carried the dog out and put him IN it,
thinking that before morning he might be
| stolen or take a notion to run OFF.
About the middle of the night was awak-
ened by noise at the front door as of some
one in distress, and on opening the door my
| protege darted in and took position in one
| corner of the hallway. 1 concluded to let
him remain there till morning. A he old
! maid rooms across the hall from us, and he
wanted to know the next morning if we
were going to turn the house into dog ken
! mel He said il the dog was left in the