The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-02-15
DO DOGS TALK TOGETHRRp
A Whipped Dog Gets "Chum" and
Defeats His Enemy.

A Whipped Dog Gets "Chum" and
Defeats His Enemy.
In recent edition of your paper, says a
correspondent Of the Kansas City Star, l
read with much interest, "A Bovine Don
Quixote," written by Dan Quin," which is
proof to me that the animal kingdom has a
language Of It's own, or some means of artic-
ulation among themselves not understood
by man. To more fully illustrate my candid
belief, will relate an instance of animal
sagacity which came to my personal obser-
walton few years ago.
At the Box hotel in Crookston, MIMI,
some six years ago, my attention was more
than once called to two dogs that were
allowed to loiter about the hotel office.
These dogs were the greatest of friends; in
fact, SO "chummy" as to call forth admira-
ton from the various hotel guests.
One afternoon one of the dogs which had
been basking in the sun on the floor Of the
Office suddenly gave a bound and started
for the door. / Immediately stepped to the
door aud opened it, and the dog passed out,
going in the direction of the Manitoba
depot, where l observed some ten or twenty
other dogs holding a pow-wow. Then
closed the door and resumed my seat.
Immediately heard terrible commo>
ton in the direction in which the dog had
gone Stepping to the door observed that
full-hedged dog-fght had begun. Arriv-
ing on the scene of the battle l found that
my dog friend Of fow minutes previous
was the under brute in the big fracas.
He was bowling with pain, while a big
Newfoundland stood over him making the
fur fly. A blow on the CANNES Uranium
from ball club in the hands OF small
urchin who stood hard by soon put stop to
the Newfoundlaud's ferocity.
The under brute started for home pell-
nell, and when l arrived at the hotel l
found the poor brute at the office door
bleeding and bruised awaiting ingress /
opened the door and passed into the office,
the dog following me.
Lying on the floor, in close proximity to
the Office stove, reposed the sleeping carcass
of my little bested friends companion. He
was large brute of the mongrel species,
cross between bulldog and mastiR. The
poor conquered brute, upon entering the
office, proceeded in the direction in which
his dog friend lay stretched upon the floor,
and, going up to him, commenced to smell
him from head to foot.
Presently the sleeping dog rose to a sit
ting position, and gazing at his conquered
friend some two or three minutes, seemed
to take in the situation at once-that his
dogship had but lately received terrible
After a little more smelling on the part of
the conquered brute, both dogs started to-
wards the door. l stepped to the door,
opened it, and the dogs passed out. Both
dogs sarted in the direction of the depot
platform, some 400 or 500 feet south of the
hotel, where they espied several oogs,
among their number being the big New
foundiand, the object OF their vengeance.
Going up to the big Newfoundland dog,
my little conquered friend curled up his
tail and commenced to growl, the big New
foundland doing likewise, each dog going
round the hound in q circuitous route while
thus parleying, the big hotel dog in the
meantime standing hard by watching pro-
ceedings
Presently the big hotel dog gave a spring
and landed good hold on the jaw Of his
big opponent Both dogs reared in the air,
the Newfoundland coming down the under
dog, and the chewing he received in that
fracas I suppose he never forgot, my little
conquered friend nipping the big rascal
from behind at every chance presenting
itself.
To be candid about 1t. the hair from the
hide of that poor martyred Newfoundland
actually filed the air, and worse whipped
dog never skunk from the field of battle
After the fight was over both hotel dogs
returned home, and from their manner after
their arrival there l should judge they
never allowed the matter to worry them to
any great extent.