The Osceola times., 1886-04-24
THAT WALLER PURP.
The sad and Tragic Tale OF Canine
with MayOnnaise Hair.

with Mayonnaise Hair.
When moved into the country. some
time ago. came TO the conclusion that l
must have dog to be happy, so l got
one-an old-gold dog with one ear and
no tail He was a gift dog, and never
stared him in the mouth wnen he had
no muzzle on.
/ had rot owned him more than two
days before l began to understand why
the man who gave him to me parted
with hin. so freely. 1t was because he
was such miscllievous dog. He was
the kind of dog that you could be fond
Of stuffed, under glass case.
When got him he was shedding his
hair with the swiftness and prodigality
ofa cheap tooth brush, and every time
he saw me with velvet ulster on, he
would make it point to jump on me
and cover me with his awful mayon-
naise hair. Everything in the house
that had plush on it, from the chair
cushions to the family photograph al.
bum, had more or less dog hair on it; in
fact, there was hair enough lying around
to cover four dogs.
He shed his hair SO fast that stopped
worrying, in the firm belief that he
would be entirely bald in cay or two.
For every hair that fell out four new
ones seemed to come in to keep up the
aftermath.
He had many unpleasant babits
When | wanted to go anywhere alone
he would insist on following me and
when called him he would turn and
run for his life, under the impression
that he was going to be cIffed and
beaten.
He had no virtue as watch dog. lie
wouldn't watch anything I iat he could.
MT eat, and he would only watch that
long enough to get chance 10 steal it
He had great habit of burying his food
in my bed. He would carry all sorts OF
bones upstairs, and get under the
clothes with them. and leave them
there. Then, in the middle OF the night
would roll over and get al, those bones
right in The small of my back, and be
madder than ever ! was since | SLEPT
with my lesser brother, who ate cracker,
in bed.
Another unhappy trick of the dogs
was to rush into my room in the morn
ing, and jump on the bed, and commence
walking and running on me. would
| frequently wake as from a nightmare
and find the dog walking on my eyes
After yswning and wiping the dog ou
of my eyes, would hurl him on the
floor with dull, sickening thud, and
that would be the last ofhin until break
fast-time.
! called him Arthur after King Ar
thur of the Table Round, because he
was always round the table.
The most difficult thing ever under
night. | could push him out through
the door, but he would always rush bach
before could cl,se it, and be under thu
table looking at me TO see what l wa
going to do next. The only way coulc
get bin out was to carry him, close the
door after me, deposi, him on the ground
and climb in through the window. TheI
Arthur would set up a howl, and keep l
up until | was glad to let him in for SAX,
OF peace.
was very difficult to catch him wher
he didn't want to be caught. | hav,
+, tished for him with a meat -covere,
pickerel hook, and chased him with
] soap net in vain.
! One day set large raj trap for foxe
out in the hennery and covered it will
straw. 1t was baited with mutton. Ar
taur smelled it in his rambles, and pu
his nose down on it little too hard
for, before he knew it, the saw-edge,
semicircles jumped off the floor, grabbe,
him behind the ears, and asphyxiate'
him on the spot.
He now sleeps beneath the ox-eye,
daisies, where The muzzle, the brick, an,
the small boy bloom not. Puck.