Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1892-03-19
In THE NICK OF TIME.
AN OLD HORSE PISTOL WHICH
PROVED USEFUL.
Thrilling Adventure OF a Man sleighing
With His northumberland by
Savage Dogs-Two Very
Good Shots.


10 the occasion, according TO the De-
.roit Free Press Laying aside his
pipe with look Of regret he began:
'lt's popular saying that barking |
logs don't bite Like other popular
sayings. this is fallacy and mislead-
ing. Barking dogs do not bite while
hey are barking but there Is only
1ne species OF canine that sneaks up
10 you and takes hold without saying a
word. That is the Scotch collie which
nherits It's habit Of silent biting from
a sheep.nipping ancestry.
Story! storyr called out the presi-
lent
STORY? Bless you! / have none to
ell sir" quoted the raconteur, re-
Wondering his classics; this is only
memory OF two dogs accursed
9rutes that lived with an unfriendly
man on hill over which the post road
vas laid.
This man was a Cain among his
fellows kept two savage mastiffs who
lot only barked but bit whenever it
was possible
II was counting my first wife up
here in the Cumberland mountains in
British North America where this
happened, and had TO pass the house
regularly. | drove blooded mare
hat went like bird and the dogs
we're no match for her, but II was
very annoying to have them follow
ne down the hill for a mile or more
barking and yelling like demons
They would bark at the stage
coaches. and run long distances after
hem. but the passengers were safe in
side aud the driver and those on the
outside were too high for them 70
-each. But ! heard frequent stories
II their attacking men and being beat
IN OF with sticks and stones
Il asked why they were not killed
and the answer wns always the same
! shrug or the shoulder and the re-
mark: You don't know the kind Of
: nan their owner is II seemed that
ne lived alone with his dogs and peo-
9 pie feared him so much they dare not
9 70 10 him and complain or call on the
9 provincial laws 70 help them.
. "a crisis came when one day ] took
e ny sweetheart out for sleigh-ride In
e A low pung belonging TO her father, 70
n which was harnessed my own sure and
: swift footed mare.
8 III was lovely day, and we ex'
oected 20 make safe and rapid de
l. scent Of the mountain distance o
n zen or twelve miles The air wa
| srisp and cold the sleighing fine, ant
y Re skinned up the ascent and reached
The landing before we knew we haC
% started.
IS There we were met by the dogs
= think il would have been less Difficult
u 10 have gotten rid OF pair of wolves
u dare not give my mare her head go
1t ing down that long steep declivity o.
y frozen snow, and the dogs emboldene
ct oy tho cold or maddened by repeate
D. ashings from my whip jumped at IN
/ companion and tore her cloak and he
at dress in mouthfuIs
ir Il dubbed with my whip and bea
in .hem on the head, but they did nc
ID even seem TO feel my blows Thei
ne great black and yellow frames quiz
a. sred with ferocity. The hair on the
backs stood up like names; their eye
d calls cleaned red and angry, and h
10 noise they made was defeaning an
listracting.
d Ohg / exclaimed, "why haven't
~ 3 pistol?'
In ...Look in the box under the seat
'ir cried my companion, whose face WI
cd blanched.
Il looked quickly and found a rus
ZIP double barreled horse pistol OF
tut make OF forty years ago.
OF :, lis il loaded? asked.
to "Yes; but don't shoot II you
PC that man will kill you
II remember thinking how like
woman IL was TO tell mo whore to I'll
the pistol and then ask me not
shoot
Il laid the reins loose on t
ore mares back. and away she went Ii
the wind, beyond my control now a
h knew she would never stop till $
ian was mile beyond the level grou
ird AZ the foot OF the hill.
got ..If tho pung held together;
md nothing made the marc swerve fro
lat the direct line; IT, In fact--it Pro
eN. lenCe Kept an eye on us ana l
ard breeching didn't break-we might
cen cape breaking our necks. look
/ in back and saw the dogs gaining on
,es even at that mad gait-theu &c
po- aim and fired Bang! Bang! TIL
de- we're two dark objects lying prone
mo- The snowy rond. and, as quick as {
could gather her feet under her !
wn mare stopped in her tracks She '
her trained to the use of gun.
rte "But my companion urged me
ned hurry on. and We were soon down
tho incline aud beyond the reach of l
TO ognition or pursuit and strange
alter say, no one but our two selves g
site knew who killed those dogs.
I'VE heard the most marvellous
she counts OF the slaughter the wea
as varying from Queen Ann muske
canon; but dead they were as d.
den nails and the roign of terror over.
rom imagine their owner did not care
and venture out to avenge their del
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