Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-11-11
CHASED BY MAD DOGS.
hhRsREAoTH ESCAPE OF a CLUE
Man AND HIS BEsT GIRL.


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No one had spoken Mt tho club for
about an hour when raoonteur rose 10
The occasion. Laying aside his pipc with
hlook Of regret he began;
ITS popular saying that barking
dogs don't bite. Like other popular say
ings this is fallacy and unloading.
Barking dogs do not bite while they arc
barking, but therc Ia only one species Of
canine that sneaka up to you and takes
bold without saying n word. That Is
the Scotch collie. which inherits Its habit
Of silent biting from q sheep nipping an
cestry."
"storyi storyr called out tho pres
iient
story God bless youl have none
~ tell, dr." quoted the raconteur, re-
membering his classics: "this Is only a
memory Of two dogs, accurscd brutes,
that lived with an unfriendly man on a
bill, over which the postroad was laid.
This man, who was Cain among his
fellows. kept two savage mastiiis, who
not only barl,cd but bit whenever It was
possible. was counting my first wifo
up there In the Cumberland mountains
m British North America where this
happened, aud had to pas tho houBo
regularly. drove FLOODED mare that
went like bird, and the dogs wore no
match for her, hut IL was very annoying
TO have them follow mo down the hill
tor q milo or more barking and yelpine
like demons. They would bark ut the
stage coaches aud run long distances
after them, but tho passengers were safe
Inside aud tho driver and thoac on the
putside were too high for them 10 reach.
But heard frequent stories Of thoir ut.
lacking men, aud being beaten Oft with
sticks and stones. | asked why they
were not Killed aud my answer was
always tho same, a shrng Of the aiould.
,rs and the rcmark, You don't know
the kind 81 man their owner Ia II
seemed that no lived alone with his
dogs, and psorle feared him 90 much
they dare no, 20 10 him TO complain
or call In the provincial laws 10 help
thorn.
TERRIBLE CHASE.
"a crisis came. when ono day took
my sweetheart out for a sleigh ride IN a
iow pung belonging to her father. TO
which was haruesscd my own suro and
,wift footed MARI. II was n lovely day
aud We expected 10 make a safe aud
rnpid descent Of tho mountain, dis.
lance % ten or twelve miles. Tho air
was crisp asd cold, tho sloighing fine,
md we sklmmed up tho ascent aud
reached the landing before we knew we
lad started. There we were met by tho
logs. think Il would have been less
iinlcult 10 have gotten rid Of pair "
wolves darr not give my mare her
head going down that long, steep dccliyi.
~ on frozen snow. and the dogs, en-
boldoned by the cold or maddcned by
repeated lhshinga from my whip, jumped
% my companion aud toro her cloak and
her dress IN mouthluls. / dubbed with
NY whip and beat thcn on tho head, but
hey did not even seem 10 feel my blows.
Their great black and yellow frames
auiverod with fcrocity. Tho hair on
their backs stood up like manosi their
tyeballs CLEANED rcd and angry, and the
uuise they made was deafoning and dis
tracing.
"Ohr exclaimed. why haven't ] a
pstolf
:" Look In the box under tho scat,
cried my companion, whose face wna
blanchcd.
u looked quickly, and found rusty
double blTfeled horse pistol OF a make OF
forty Year. ago,
"'ls II loadedF asked.
eyes. bu, don't ahoot II you do that
man viii Kill You?
TWO siori rtNED THIN.
81 remomber thinking how like q
woman II was TO tell mo whore 10 hne
the pistol and then Ask mo not to shoot.
II laid the roins loolo on the marei
back and away she went like tho wind
beyond my control now. aud know shI
would never stop till she was mile DO
You'd the level ground at the foot OF th'
hill.
III the pung held together; II nothing
made the mare sweryo from tho direo
line; n. in faet--if Providence kept ~
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