Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-02-05
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always springs up about this time i'm
the year sometimes, they have their
poems published, bound i'm white velvet.
and send them 10 their friends; aud
then their friends become theii enemies.
II is asking a great deal TO ask people
20 read your poetry; il is almost as much
os asking them to break IN dog.
"A NEW COON IN TOWN.
That's what | am doing now. He is
young. he is tender. a foX-tcrricr. He
comes from the great aud glorious West,
and his name is Buffalo Biz, which name,
being much bigger than he Is, is degcne-
rating into Bun His intentions are good
and he can drink more milk than any
dog l ever met. He is decidedly pugi-
lisuc. Being newcomer he has the
impudencc 70 feel thut he Is monarch
of the mausc: and so he fights the other
dogs, who were In power before he was
born. just now they look az him mildly,
aud forgive him his impudcnce; but /
foresep a time when he will get good
thrashng, aud become a WISER and less
aggressive dog The other dogs snuff nc
him, and forgive him for existing But
you know they are not going TO keep
that sort of thing up II isn't dog nature.
We miserable human beings are inclined
To bC down on the young of our kind;
while the dogs, wiser in their generation.
forgive them their folly. and after al
lowing them 90 gain a little knowledge
of the world, thrash their ignorance out
of them.
A LESSON FROM DOGS.
II always makes me laugh 10 see how
q littlr dog viii come In, claim the chair
Of the rciguiug fayonte, get the most
To eat. drink ont Of the best cup. and
sleep i'm the softest place: all the other
dogs sit around aud nod AZ him, aa much
as 10 say: You poor littlr dogsin;
you don't know whit the world means.
aud, because of that, we will just let
you have your way for little while
What a lot of good lessons the dogs
could teach us! / never saw any dog,
no matter how fine he was, 20 back ON
the FREUD that was shabby and poor.
! have seen dog rush wildly into the
street, and dance around a dlsrcputnhle
specimau, who had once been friend
of his, and 20 back and look up In his
masters eyes, as much us 10 say:
Won't you help him In his trouble
! never saw II big dog fight little dog
and | have seen little dog worry big
one, so YOU wouldn't have blamed HIM
III he had turned Ia and literally wiped mp
the earth with him
GOOD FRIENDS AND SQUARE
ENEMIES.
/ never saw dog of any kind forsake
people whom he loved when poverty
came, and have known dog TO br as
hungry as possible and TO sit ana watch
% baby and see TINT nobody took the bit
of bread from lis hands ] tell You, we
are not half as appreciutlNe ui dogs 4s
We ought 10 be. They are good friends
and square enemies and there is So much
about them, that we people who cali
them brutcs might copy to good adWn-
tngp Did you ever see dog fool enough
10 get drunky He may have done By
once in his life, but never again, aud All
the persuasion ia the world couldn't 49,
duce him 10 take drink Of luilk that
had whisky IN IT, IL Is very seldom thar
N dog eats TOO much. When he Is sicf
II is much more apt 10 result from the
fact that ne had been given food thnt
was tnO rich for him. than that he over
ate himself il Is true that at very
early stage in the game be loses all Inc
terest IN hi puppies, uLd lets theu 20
ON and face the world, but he j. not
very unlike humhn beings in that; thty
turn out their puppie, 90 face the world
pretty sOOn pOor1ittle puppies ihat sulIer
In mind and body. a heap more Than tue
dogs do and these human puppies have
30 learn miserable tricks tricks 81 9tcep-
ton. tricks ~ mauner tricks Of wing
Yuu Gun never teach these Go dos
You may beat him into waltziug when
Won play tune, hut he won love you
for H. you have made BIN lose ms dignl-
~. You may cnjole him into walking on
his hind legs for biscuit, but he would
love Won ten times as much ana ENJOY tue
biscuit deal more &c hp didn't feel that
he was being made a fool Of a dog
tenches himself no end Of pretty coune-
sizes II he loves you. but he don't love YOU
III he thinks you are using him as
source Of amusement, making him wear
the cap aud bells
THE STORY or A PARABLE
Way back IN some Old book, there !
story 81 how the dogs usel % br ~
those DAYS when they could talk, ana
were mons advisers. Ohe DAY = sisAi
prince u,et beautiful woman, and, de