St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-11-06
AN EVENING BATH
Made Into a Terror by an Unsym-
pathetic Beast of Dog.
Chicago Times.

palmetto Beast OF Dog.
Chicago Times
u had an experience the other night
which came near being the end of me-"
said one of the members of the Column
bia Yacht club during a post-prandial
seance on the clubs wharfboat. He
didn't look as though he had gone
through any particularly narrowing eX-
periences, but the Columbia fellows are
a good audience till tale is done, and
so they listened, and he continued as
follows:
'Pd been out sailing with a certain
member of this club, whom l won't
name, but who is the only man in it
capable of keeping bloodthirsty bull
dog on his boat"'-and the raconteur
directed a fierce glance into the for'ard
starboard corner of the club barge
land, as we were ort-handed, I'd
worked like foremost hand on lum-
Der hooker all afternoon.
I'VE got into the basin late, unfurled
sail and made all snug, cooked US bite
and sat on the afterdeck smoking and
resting. That Internal dog was faWning
around me in the most friendly manner.
and | was feeding him scraps Of meat in
the fond belief that l was sealing a
friendship that might some day prove
convenient if not valuable.
"Well, the gentleman who owned the
ship and the dog-being too lazy to row
ashore-decided to stay aboard all night,
and asked ME to stay likewise. / live
away out south, and [ was tired and the
friend does have comfortable quarters
in his cabin, and so | consented. At IL
O'Clock we decided to turn in. 1t was a
beautiful night. 1t had been bit cool
all day, but south wind had blown up
and it was case of August Weather
again. l got about ready to turn in he
was already under blankets and snooZ-
ing like cooks boy when l looked
out the companiOnway and over the
water. 1t looked awfully inviting-so
inviting that forgot how chilly it had
been all day and for several days past
and forgot several other things, includ-
somewhere up tor'ard and gone TO sleep.
Anyway, with the spell of the beauti-
full night and the convenient water be-
side me, chucked off my clothes, put a
rough towel on a seat in the cockpit,
turned up the blankets of my bunk,
then went on board amidShipS and took
q header off into that seductive blue
water shimmering in the moonlight.
''Weil, say, I've fallen through the ice
while skating. but the sensation wasn't
in it with that l experienced when L
! landed in old Michigan and my cutlcle
nerves had chance to communicate
sensations to the rest of my system.
Cold? 1t must have been near the
freezing point! came up and struck
out for the bobstay about as lively as L
! ever did anything, and when | grabbed
| the ratlines and hoisted myself out of
the water that balmy south breeze
seemed to have changed to norther.
didn't lose any time climbing up to
the bowsprit, can tell you, but just as
l stepped on deck there was a rush and
a growl, and that cursed dog made a
dash at my bare shanks with his mouth
wide open and all the bristles his
neck on end.
81 was freezing by this time. Ny
teeth were chattering, and the wire
stays were cutting into me like knives.
There was only one thing left to do.
had to yell to my late friend-under-
stand, say late-to come and call his
dodgasted dog off! Oh! he came out
after I'd had responses from dozen
different vessels around, and the life
saving crew were burning blue lights
to see where the agoniZed bowls came
from. Yes, he came out and went into
paroXysm Of that insane, drivellng,
blithering, idiotlc laughter that betokens
primary paresis. He had siege of it.
1t lasted half an hour or so. Then, as
he heard the sailors on the Michigan
called to quarters to rig search-Iights
and lower boats, he caught his breath
and called his id dog off.
what do l want? Whisky; lots of
1t. Pve got the quinine in my pocket
and plasters all over my person. If
escape pneumonia | mayn't have any
thing worse than intiammatory rheuma-
tism, but either of ems preferable to
hydrophobia, and that's all the choice [