Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-11-19
CHASED BY MAD DOGS.
HAIReREAorH ESCAPE or A CLUB
MAN AND HIS BEST GIRL.

MAN AND HIS BEST GIRL.
A Yarn which Goes 20 Prove That Bark
ing Dogs Do Bite sometlmss-stin
some Savage Brutes Don't Waste Much
Time In Barking When Out for Blood.
No one had spoken at the club for
about an hour when a raconteur rose to
the occasion. Laying aside his pipe with
look of regret he began:
''It's a popular saying that barking
dogs don't bite. Like other popular say
ings this is a fallacy and misleading.
Barking dogs do not bite while they are
barking, but there is only one species Of
canine that snesks up TO you and takes
hold without saying q word. That is
the Scotch collie, which inherits its habit
of silent biting from sheep nipping an
cestry."
"Storyi storyF called out the pres
ident.
"Storyi God bless you'll have none
to tell, SIR" quoted the raconteur, re-
membering his classics; "this is only a
memory of two dogs, accursed brutes,
that lived with an unfriendly man on a
hill, over which the postroad was laid.
This man, who was Cain among his
fellows, kept two savage mastiffs, who
not only barked but bit whenever it was
possible. / was courting my first wife
up there in the Cumberland mountains
In British North America where this
happened, and had to pass the house
regularly. drove blooded mare that
went like bird, and the dogs were no
match for her, but it was very annoying
to have them follow me down the hill
for mile or more barking and yelping
like demons. They would bark at the
stage coaches and run long distances
after them, but the passengers were safe
inside and the driver and those on the
outside were too high for them to reach.
But heard frequent stories of their at
tacking men, and being beaten off with
sticks and stones. asked why they
were not killed and my answer was
always the same, shrug Of the should
ers and the remark: You don't know
the kind of man their owner is 1t
seemed that he lived alone with his
dogs, and people feared him so much
they dare not go to him to complain
or call in the provincial laws to help
them.
A TERRIBLE CHASE.
"a crisis came, when one day took
my sweetheart out for sleigh ride in a
low pung belonging to her father, to
which was harnessed my own sure and
swift footed mare. 1t was lovely day
and we expected to make safe and
rapid descent of the mountain, dis
tance of ten or twelve miles. The air
was crisp and cold, the sleighing fine,
and we SKINNED up the ascent and
reached the landing before we knew we
had started. There we were met by the
dogs | think it would have been less
difficult to have gotten rid of pair of
wolves. dare not give my mare her
head going down that long, steep declivi-
ty on frozen snow, and the dogs, en-
boldened by the cold or maddened by
repeated lashings from my whip, jumped
at my companion and tore her cloak and
her dress in mouthfuls. | dubbed with
my whip and beat them on the head, but
they did not even seem to feel my blows
Their great black and yellow frames
quivered with .ferocity. The hair or
their backs stood up like names; theil
eyeballs cleaned red and angry, and the
noise they made was deafening and dis
tracting.
"Ohr exclaimed, why haven't 4
pistolp
"Look in the box under the seat,
cried my companion, whose face wa
blanched.
81 looked quickly, and found rusty
double barreled horse pistol of make O
forty years ago.
"'Is it loadedT l asked.
"'Yes, but don't shoot. II you do tina
man will kill your
TWO SHOTS FIXED THEM.
81 remember thinking how like
woman it was to tell me where to fin,
the pistol and then ask me not to shoot.
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back and away she went like the WIND
beyond my control now, and | knew SD
would never stop till she was mile be
yond the level ground at the foot of th
4 hill.
: IF the pung held together; If nothin
made the mare swerve from the diret
line; if, in fact-if Providence kept a
q eye on us, and the breeching didn
+ break, we might escape breaking OF
q necks. / looked back and saw the dos
i gaining ON us, even at that mad gait
ia then | took aim and fired. Bang! Ban
| There were two dark objects lying pro-
# on the snowy road, and as quick as 81
II could gather her feet under her my ma
,f stopped in her tracks. She was traln
II to the use of gun.
"But my companion urged me to hu
n. nv on, and we were soon down the
ID cline and beyond the reach of recogl
g. ton or pursuit, and strange to say
oe one but our two selves ever knew w
ne killed those dogs We heard the mt
m marvellous accounts of the slaughter, t
Dis weapon varying from a Queen An
Ii. musket to a cannon, but dead they we
~ as door nails, and their reign OF teri
"a over. imagine their owner did not CT
to venture out to avenge their death.
ne drove boldly past the house every d
Mt but was never molested or even suspe
as ed. But often heard their unkno
ia slayer praised and applauded for
,g- deed which rid the neighborhood OF tn
ed hateful presence" Detroit Free Pres
Cleaning Fish Described.
- The first time my little Marie, al
twentv-six months, saw the girl dress