The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-11
CLEVER DAGHSHUND.
Was of Irish Descent and Fooled
His Adversaries.
(New York Press

| There is a little dachshund over in
Second avenue" said the man whose
fancy runs to dogs, "who gets more
plain, unassuming deviIment out of life
/ in going around as a wolf in sleeps
clothing than any one 1 am willing to
wager, who has ever attempted that
| historic makeup. The dachshund, you
| know, is one of those long, low, ramb-
| ling English basement dogs that was
designed originally in Germany and has
since spread pretty much all over the
world. Aside from his lOOse-J Ointed
Doric architecture, the most prOnOunc-
ed characteristic of the Dutch dachs-
hund is the attitude Of profound sorrow
with which he contemplates the uni
verse. He wears a perpetual apology
on his face for his unwilling audacity
in being alive, and if you ever notice
him closely you will see that his eyes
are always gazing upward in a sort Of
| a heaven-is-my-home expression.
why, sir, he is so everlastingly meek
and lOwly that if an ordinary Yankee
dog comes along and makes a few
good humOred remarks the dachshund
will turn his other cheek before the
Yankee dog has thought of saying any
thing offensive. It's a fact that I've
seen two of these Dutch dOgs-stran-
gers to each Other-meet in the street
and curl up on their backs like a pair
of caterpillars before they came within
twenty feet of one another; each afraid
the other would excel him in courtesy.
well. this little fellow am speaking
of conformed in his physical makeup
| to the made in Germany model in
every point except one. His coat, in
stead of being short and smooth and
| oF n 1RIv fuT a III
wooIly and of a dirty buff color. In
| every other respect he was an excellent
| specimen; his legs had just the right
! FrankfuTter curve to them, and his
| body looked as much like that of a
/ prosperous lizard as anythink but his
/ buff-colored jacket marked his depar-
| ture from the true type. u was the
| outward and visible sign of the inward
and lowly grace which he did not pos
| sess.
Somewhere back in his ancestral
! tree there had been a mesalliance. The
( sweet and gentle strain of the Father
! land had been crossed with the wild,
( boisterOuS, riot-loving blood of the Irish
/ terrier, and my young friend was the
result. OutWardly he favored the Faith
| erland, inWardly he was consumed with
an unqUenchable thirst for trouble.
/ Sometimes as l have sat watching him
/
/ pavement on the opposite side ri the
street from my window for his morning
constitutional have about come to
the conclusion that he understands the
| capital joke nature has played with
I him and thoroughly appreciates it.
| His little affair with the janitor's
cat went a long way toward strength
| ening my belief in this theory. This
cat lived in the basement of the big
/ fiat house in the middle of the block
/ opposite, and was the janitor's one
/ source of pride and amusement. She
was a large and unusually handsome
/ cat, with a coat as smooth and glossy
as sable, and a set of claws which she
/ carefully honed each day on the little
/ scrub Of tree growing in the front
/ yard. And she was somewhat of a jes-
/ ter herself.
Her favorite game-and the one in
which the janitOr found unfailing de-
! light-was TO perch herself upon the top
rail, behind the pickets. of the iron
fence Enclosing the yard. and there
with spit calls and other native re-
marks, lure her natural enemy into am
bush. The moment an unsuspecting dos
needed her challenge and approached
the fence she hurled herself upon him
+ and before the enemy hal time to un-
snarl himself from the binding gray
streak of fury she had done her work
and was sitting bumped up out OF
reach in the top branch of the little
: scrub tree. Many is the %unwise doe
I've seen retire in disorder from heI
ambush with his colOrs struck and
wearing on his nose and ears copies OF
her savage trade mark. Naturally
enough as soon as she spotted my
friend the Dutchman she picked hin
! out as a good thing-a ludicrous good
| thing-and every morning for days sht
/ employed all her prettiest strategy t.
entice him within range, but always in
vain. The melancholy foreigner was no
to be enticed. In fact, I soon noticed
that, although he continued his sad
eyed promenade over the same ground
he had taken to describing a wider
and more cringing circle around the
dangerous ambush each day. The ca
also noticed this, and, growing holder
as his fears became more abject, she
took to chasing him off the sidewalk
into the street. Each Gay the pursuit
was heightened a few feet and the dis
lance from her retreat increased.
"One morning the cat, emboldened GU
of all her native caution, chased thC
enemy far into the middle of the street
hopelessly cut off, that little piOus, mel
anchOly wienerwurst dog, instead OF
continuing his fight as he had al
ways done before, suddenly stood his
ground, and with a fierce, unholy bark
"a bark that, coming from him
seemed as shocking and out of place
as though a Methodist parson had sud,
denly offered to deal faro-he snatcheC
that poor deluded cat by the nape Of
the neck as she shot past him. and al
the science and briIliancy OF his Irist
ancestors, backed up with the strength
of the Dutch side of the house, was put
into each individual Shake. When his
victim recovered from the first SHOCK
of surprise and chagrin she fought
with all the courage and valOr of hel
tribe, but against that elongated cy,
clone she stood no more chance than 6
field mouse. 1t took two women ana
the janitor to get them apart-Or, rath-
er, to pry the dachshund lOose-anf
when the cat was carried back to tbs
fat she was about as near a tota
wreck as any cat could be and live
"a few moments later the daohs-
hund came trotting h0meward on my
side Of the street. To all appearances
he was as demure and sorrowfuI az
ever, but as he passed under my win
dow l saw him licking his chops com
placently, and as he gazed at the scene
of the late encounter out of the cornel
of his bright, eager little Irish eyes