The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-12-02
AMONG THE CANNES,
Essay Caigh's Instructive Lit
tie Parable.
NOT TRYING TO POINT AMOBAI,
They Fight among Themselves
The Big Ones share.

Dogs are of three Elm 1s-good, bad
and merely useless One enthusiastic
writer goes SO far as to say that some
of them are noble, ard be may be right,
If the human race is the criterion, it
being thoroughly demonstrated fact
that the nobility among our species are
a lot of lazy, sponging, incompet ent
sons and daughters of guns, only toll
Grated because majority of those they
rule oyer are az spiritless as so many
fes-bitten ours. Many dogs would lie
slande1ed by comparing them with
su ch nobility. One thing can be said
in favor OF the grown-up pup, if he
takes a liking to you he sticks to the
last. A bull terrier once took a fancy
to FRIEND of mine, and stuck to MIN
till red-hod poker was brought to bear
on his (the pups headquarters. This
caused him to think of something else
Just then. But digress.
Dogs are also knowing. l never saW
one that didn't know himself from any
other dog, or that couldn't tell stale
UlCdO 11Oh 11lO4 CulChCus DOI0G VI
them can talk-so [ have heard Some
of their midnight contain
about as much good 8 nse as ANYTHING
that was said by the Republican
highbinders during the Campaign.
(fhey call themselves "SpelIbinders,"
{ but have got hold of the wrong word).
: Sometimes a dog, whose brother or
other near relative has been captured in
the meat house and gone the way of the
dishonest canine, will give vent to his
feelings IN prolonged and subdued notes
of quiYering anguish for hours at a
stretch when you are trying to sleep.
If the cook has happened to have left
the kettle full of water on the kitchen
stove, you can most generally always
sorthe the grief OF the bereaved with
! th 1t article.
[ know an incide Mt in which dogs
! figured as the hero, the villain, the
walking gentleman and the singing
chambermald. 1t is real cute. The
way of it was this: A friend of mine,
whose habitation was on the pneumonia
side of the Sixth Ward Canal, had g
meat cellar at some little distance from
the residence. The flesh in that cellar
was the only thing of that nature IN the
neighborhood that DIDN'T have some
kind of i'll or ache hitchsd on
TO it, aud was naturally nigh
ly priced. besides, having a lib
eral stock of it on hand made
necessary for him to run feet-footed
and fas:.growing bills at the shops up
town. For some reason or other mex
plicable to the neigh Oors, he kept dog
at the door day and night, good dog
and a faithful one, but dog with sharp
teeth and led eyes. People in that
i vicinity are sometimes heavy on the
borrow, but it hardly ever goes beyond
a DRAWN Of tea or cup of sugar, and
not even then without the owners per
mission. If ever there was good and
faithful dog, one that had fewer faults
and heas than any other. this was the
cTitter. ItWas named Blinker, g name
suggestive of the male gender, in which
respect it was improper, as Blinker hal
a large lot OF growing dOglets, her own
production, near by, and these did as a
great many who walk on two feet do
lived off their mother. She was permit
ted to enter this store house twice day
and help herself to meat from certain
place, and she never traasgressed the
rules. She seemed to take as much real
pleasure in guarding the surplus as in
her seml-quotidian repast from j..
Other dogs had essayed in vain, by
making love to her, threatening,
ETC., to effect an entrance, but
it didn't work, until the time
of which am bout to speak. Envy
of her fortunate situation grew among
the canine population, and swapping of
teeth and even direct assault with rein
forcements became common. 1t was
evident that the fort was becoming
every day less and less impregnable; the
owner had occasional glimpses of this,
but on his appearance the whole pack
would disappear, each in a different
direction. 1t looked as though they
came from ali over the country. One
OF them was g sheep-dog and therefore
republican in his ms tiDcts, as illus
trated by his actions after being de-
tected IN an attempt to steal; he would
sneak home through the back fence,
and il he discove; ed any children in the
yard would pranCe around them, bring
sticks, bark when they told him to, and
act generally as though guile had never
entered his brain, and make the family
believe that he was such good beast.
We'll, the plotting went on. 1t was
determined to overthrow BIinker and
get at the hidden treasure of that meat
house by some means. One day
strange dog dawned on the scene. He
was one of the biggest brutes that ever
impover!sht d a family or created
desolation in a hen coop. He was
about the size of a yearling cali and had
hide on him like crocodile. One eye
was in mourning and there was not a
square inch OF cuticle on him that
didn't have some kind of an abrasion,
scratch, scar or wound on it, The pa
tives conferred with him, and he tum-
bled like the price of genuine diamonds
at shop where We aggomodade de
beople." He could afford to engage in
desperate enterprises, because he had
everything TO gain and nothing to lose.
To him was delegated the post of honor,
said p. of b being leading the van across
the morass, through the fence and en-
gaging in a life-and death struggle
with Blinker, who must be captured
and crippled, her pups scattered and
the way to the treasures of the cave
left unguarded. The work began.
These asterisks represent family what
followed, II was nasty risk cor tt at
leading dog. The expedition had