The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-17
WENT TOO FAR.
The Dog in the Upper Story Could
 Stand it No Longer, and Then it Hap

Stand it No Longer, and Then it Hap
 pened.
 T was walking along Seventeenth stree> the other day. said a war de- Sartment clerk. who takes constitu-
 tional at the noon hour in lieu of lunch con, when saw, perkily sitting on the
 second-story outside window sill of a fine house, a clipper-built fox-terrier dog. The dog was just airing himself and
 taking in the passing show. He looked like the boss of the plant, and he had the manner of an overseer, watching out for the neighborhood and seeing that the game all around was being conducted according to Hoyle. He didn't appear to have bother on his mind, and I couldn't help but envy him
 the lead-pipe cinch that he obviously had on life and luxury.
 Then something happened. Another fox-terrier came hopping along the street, rubbering. The dog on the sec ond-story window sill saw him, and he
 got nervous all of sudden I could see the hair rise on his back, and he began to whimper with anxiety to be on the street for the purpose of taking fall ou of, or at least becoming acquainted with, the fox-terrier that was loose down below. The latter dog didn't pay the slightest attention to he whimper- ing of he dog above. but traipsed around, jingling his tag in manner that clearly meant to imply his scorn for dogs that were kept in the house all the time.
 ''The loose dog then calmly stepped on Ito the fine lawn of the house to which the dog above belonged and began to smell Of the flowers in the most exas- perating way maginable-to the dog up above. The dog up above took to bark ing tremendously, but the dog down be- low never even gave the other one the satisfaction of looking up. He just went around poking among the flower beds and enjoying his freedom.
 But dogs. like men, have a way of
 going too far and of pushing a good
 thing along too swiftly. When the
 loose fox terrier got on to that part of the lawn that was directly underneah the window os the dog above the latter was so dead sore with envy and wrath that he couldn't hold himself any longer. He made several times as he were go- ing to jump out of the window. I didn't think there was a. chance in life of his doing that. but stood and watched the performance, anyhow, for there was something exceedingly human about it. I remember how, when was a kid, the other kids used to love to come around in front of my house and tantalize me. Finally, the loose dog raised his head and looked up squarely at the barking dog on the window sill, and I'll swear
 that there seemed to be more than a
 half sheer or1ttte face of the dog down below.
 The dog above couldn't and wouldn't stand 1t any longer. He just gathered himself together for the jump, and l jumped. If he had lighted on the lawn,
 he'd unquestionably have broken some of his legs. But he didn't He knew where he was jumping. He lit squarely on the Well-padded back of the amazed dog down below. Both dogs grunted with the impact, but neither of them
 was hurt-7just jared And the perfor-
 nance began instantly.
 sThe dog that had been tantalized into jumping was Jeffries, compared to a rnixed-aler, with that other dog, and he proceeded to lick the stuffing out of the intruder. He danced around the mutt that had been rubbing it into him from the lawn like a cooper does around
 a barrel, and the thing hadn't been in progress half a minute before the dog that had done the gloating from down below tried to turn tail and execute a scoot for 1t. But he couldn't get away with it, and every time he tried to run the plucky little devil that had jumped herded him up and took few more hunks out of his pelt. The black gard cher from the house from which the dog
 had jumped had to pull the terrier off of. the intruder and hold him with all of his might while the loose dog made his escape.
 T passed by the Seventeenth street
 house again this noon. The fox terrier was experimenting things from his window sill again-but the window was
 down. But I'd be willing to bet that if the other dog had, come along and re- peated his tantalizing performance, taking advantage of the closed window, the nervy ki-yi would have jumped for him just the same, taking the glass and the sash along with him. Washington Post. {