The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-06-25
AN IMPORTED DOG.

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| AN IMPORTED DOG.
| This is the story of an imported dog
and OF all the names used only one is
genuine. for from causes which will APP
| pear, IT is not exactly safe to mention the
| other men by name. The one real name
| is Tom Mahan. II there Is one thing
more than another that Tom Mahan loves
to do 1t is to take some hounds and chase
a jackrabbIt.
An Englishman living near Wichita has.
or had. a very fine imported English fox
| hound, and Tom Mahan had seen said
hound and admired him. Not long ago
the EnglIshman left for trip to the tight
little isle across the Atlantic. and before
going called on Tom. Tom said: while
you're gone I'd like to have that foxhound
OF yours
The Englishman h. STATED.
I'm take good care Of him." said Tom.
The Englishman still hesitated.
"I'u tell you" said Tom: ''let me have
the dog and IL anything happens 10 him
while you are away I'll give you $50 in
cash.
Under that agreement" sal. the Eng
lishman, you can have him."
So the Englishmsn. just prior to his de-
parture for London. brought the hound in
TO Tom and Tom walked around him and
admired his canineship very much.
The dog sized Tom up and resolved TO
do him the first opportunity that offered.
Tom was afraid to keep the dog in town.
50 he decided to send him out to his friend
Bill Bottles Cfictitious) and let him remain
there on the farm until he could use him.
Now Bill Bottles is an old friend OF
Toms. and understands dogs, and Tom
felt that Mr. Foxhound would be perfectly
safe there. He wrote Bill Bottles .etter
telling him that the dog was a very fine
one. as he could see: that the dog was not
his property: that he had $50 up for his
safekeeping.
Bottles told Tom to send the dog along.
and go Tom called in Henry Huffaker
(nctftious) and told him to take the hound
out TO Bottles. This Huffaker did Bot
ties the first night placed the dog in his
barn. Bottles had borrowed a $40 set Of
double harness from a neighbor. That
foxhound looked around the barn in the
dead and lonesome hours OF night and pro-
ceeded to chew that harness into tidbits.
Having accomplished this. he lay down
next the door 10 rest his teeth and waited
til! dawn. The moment Bottles opened
the barn door in the morning the hound
jumped across the threshold and lit out
as fast as he could go.
When Bottles saw the harness his soul
was filled with anguish and his heart with
revenge He called the boys and armed
TO the teeth they set out after that dog
to STAY him.
They didn't catch the dog. Bottles pick |
ed I'D the remnants OF the borrowed har- |
ness and came to town and explained II |
10 Tom. who bought a new harness and |
put down opposite the dogs name on the |
ledger $40. He then bargained with Bot |
ties TO send boy out on a pony at 81
a day To hunt the dog. and TO save his |
other 80. week passed. Meanwhile |
Henry Huffaker. who originally took the |
dog out TO Bottles, had made another !
Journey on a different mission to the coun-
Try. He had not heard OF the escape OF |
the dog and he dropped into Bottles place /
and said:
bill how's the hound2"
And Bill thought Hufaker was ioshinS
him over his experience with the dog. and
ne called him names. And Huffaker said
that no man could call him names, and
they went at II then and there
HuTaker came TO town and called on
Tom Mahan and displayed hts general ap-
oearauce and demanded arn.ca and court
plaster So Tom added to opposite the
logs name on the ledger: Arnyca. -
tents: court plaster. . cents
A week has passed and the bog has not
Iound the dog, and Tom has made another
srtry. 81.
The Englishrnan has not returned.
has the dog, but Tom counts the
81 forfeit gone and today his account
stands as follows:
English foxhound-