The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-10-05

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"1Mal dogF * nat hazard in some direction
or another, and many AID stringent are
the police regulations put in force tn
guard against tie ptiils OF hydrophobia-
More than = unhappy dog, innocent OF
anything except fright or thirst, panic at
being hunted, or having lost his way or
his master, has fallen a victim to mistaken
zeal.
One day during last summer n peddler
woman walking along the road obsergeda
dog belonging to the neighborhood trot-
ting before her. She knew who vas the
owner and also that the animal was not
far from home.
A grassy bank was beside the f~ootpath,
and in this bank WIS & wasp's nest. The
dog in passing must have disturbed the
insects, which few out upon him. cluster
ing round his head, and singing him
about the ears, eyes and nostrils. The
poor animal, frightened and in pain,
sprang forward, rushing ON with wild
co%ntOrtions Of agony.
4 policeman coming mp ut the moment
saw him fly past, his tongue hanging out,
his eyes protruded. Mad dog.' he cried,
and the poor beast WAS shot dead before
the screaming woman, running breath
lessly to the rcscee, could explain what
she had seen.
And a sore pity it was, she said. AS
honest ard faithful and As handsome a
dog MS ever stepped before its own tail.
Not so mad, indeed, as the man that was
in such Il hurry TO shoot him.
OF all the changes which modern and
more enlightened times have brought
about, there is none happier than that
affecting the treatment of sufferers at
tackled with h~ydrophobia.
The wriTerof this is old enough to re-
member bygone tragedies connected with
those victims that make Il shudder.
There was no hope for the unfortunates.
Death was the doom; and at the first
symptoms the hapless human victims
were ruthlessly Observation-Disclosures
between feather beds the usual mode!
An occurrence in humble Irish life, re
WONDERED still in the parish where it
took place, and for the truth of which
many can vouch, will illustrate painfully
the above.
The narrative viii be best given in the
words OF one Of the family present at the
time.
Myself was in tho house when it all
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the mistress. A comfortable farm it was,
and she well to do; with cows and other
stock in plenty, and good land. Ryan
had been dead some years, and she man
aged il all; q clever, brisk, stirring
woman. She'd be up and out in her dairy
Mt three o'clock in the summer mornings
to get the butter off the churn in the cool
Of the day; and then away with her across
the fields to visit the cattle and oversee
the laborers ut work.
Many a smart young fellow would
have been proud to help her, and right
glad to step into RyaG's shoes il he WAS
let. For size was pleasant to look at; as
comely as she was industrious; tidy M
trim, wonderful ut making and laying by
money. But although she had u gay
word for them all, and was blithe and
CHEEKY as the day, they soon found that
coming counting to the vsinsome young
widow was only wasting their time.
She wouldn't listen to man or mortal.
Herwhole heart and life was bound up
in her one child, a lovely boy. 1t was
easy to see by the look that would
come into her face, and the light and love
in her eyes, as they followed him where
ever she went, that she hadn't Il thought
to give any beside. He was the entire
world to her. Every penny she could
make or save was for him, and late and
carly she worked to keep all things about
the farm in the best order against he was
old enough to take it up.
a fine handsome child he was: merry as
a child, full Of spirits and fun. He dotted
oil his mother, and maybe she wasn't
proud Of him! Every one loved him,
ever the dumb animals. he was so good
natured and kindly-joyous and bright
like sunshine in the house. There's
something in the young and their ways
that the heart warns to, natural.
As time wore on, young Ryan grew to
be handy and helpful about the place, and
knowledgable concerning farm business.
He was rising sixteen years old, a good
scholar, and a fine well-grown active lad,
when there came a wonderful hot sum
mer, and umor were rife about mad
dogs seen going through the country. and
of the terrible mischief they did. Cows
were bitten, and pigs; Christians were at
tackled, and a neighboring farmer lost
two valuable horses, that went mad after
being bitten, and had to be destroyed.
People were everywhere in dread and on
the watch.
One morning just after the hay was
gathered in and safe, herself and the boy
were together in the yard, working away
as busy as bees. They were seldom asun-
der now; for he had done with schooling,
and they always kept one another com
pany just like q pair Of comrades. There
was only nineteen years difference be-
tween the ages Of the two.
Talking merrily they were over their
work and laughing-he was full of his
jokes-when a man came tearing into the
yard, crying out that a MAD dog was in
tie place, and was making straight for
the field the cow were in.
Quick as lightning the boy caught up o
pitchlork and away like a shot into the
field. His mother flew after him, Shrek
ing out to him TO stop, and shouting out
TO the men to follow. But he was as
light Of foot and nimble as the deer, and
before ever q one could oyertake him he
had come up with the dog.
The great animal faced savagcly round
upon the lad when he made at him with
the ~pitchfork, and bit and tore with fury.
But the brave boy grappled with him and
had him pinned to the ground B. thetim
the men ann up and gave she finishing
stroke.
Now, mother dear, " lie cried in glee,
''thc cows are safei Another minute and
the brute would have been into them"
But the poor mother wasn't needing
the cows, when her darling son, for whom
she'd have given all she was worth in the
wide world, was there before her eyes all
bloody and covered with foam from the
beasts mouth. She washed and bathed
the bites, the boy laughed at her the