The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-12-29
DOG AND GOAT
Fought a Battle to Death on Edge of
Cliff.

From the New York Sun.
Shady Side, the little corner of New
Jersey tucked under the Palisades. just
across from Grants tomb, honored the
memory of an unknown dog yesterday.
No one knows where he came from
No one knows his owner. He was just
n numbering bull terrier, with a mongrel
strain at that.
He was neither beautiful nor kind. He
had the marks of a hundred fights on
his brindle muzzle, one looped ear and a
lame foot and a disposition to bite first
and make inquiries afterward. But be-
cause the world loves a fighter he rests
tonight in an honored grave. For, in
the sight of all Shady Side. he put up
such fight yesterday as no dog-no bull
terrier even-eyer put up before.
Dynamite Is a nanny goat, old, the
mother Of several kids. long horned for
her. sex and mighty scrapper She has
never shown the white feather. She
butts like a billy goat and she has a rip
ping trick with her horns which is all
her own. With her In these days roams
her six-months-old kid. She belongs to
Joseph Gomez, the Shady Side barber.
The path which twists up the Palisades
behind Gomez's house Is her right Of way.
mite and her kid met the bull terrier yes
terday morning. The kid was in the
lead. The path was wide enough for the
kid to pass the dog, but In the foolish
way kids have, it lodged this way and
that. The dog stopped, bristled and
growled. The kid took fright and ran
bleating down the hill.
Dynamite needed no further challenge.
She lowered her head and charged. The
dog, not yet fully reused. sldestepped,
Dynamite tore on and burrowed in the
snow. The bull terrier snarled braced
his feet and stood with his tail to the
cliff
With the keen sense Of a goat for the
location and dangers Of rocks, Dynamite,
although bleating end stamping with
rage, did not charge for fear of spill
over the cliff. Then the blood came up
in the dogs eye and he lunged forward
In the silent stiff tailed charge of bull
terrier-straight at the throat. His
teeth met in the long hair under her
chin She gave a shake and his jaws
came away with half her beard. He
sprang again. This time she stood on
the cliff edge. His 30 pounds of spring
steel muscle struck her fair In the
throat. She went down. rolled Overland
both dropped over the face of the wall
"A uOIcu ldh Stfli tiit BtEiI-
ming Of the fight Their cries brought out
their elders from the village below. Look
ing up they saw the two fall and land on
the little shelf. Dynamite fell under
most. Her elastic body actually bounced
the dog three feet in the air. He fell
with his two forepaws on the ledge. his
hind paws scratching at the face OF the
cliff. For a moment IT looked as II no
would go down. but he gave a tremen-
dous heave and recovered himself. At
the same moment Dynamite regained
her feet.
Their tails hanging over the gulf, their
muzzles not three feet apart, the two
beasts stood and faced each other. 1t
was Dynamite's own ground The watch
ing people below, whose sympathies. hui
man like. were with the dog. were won
dering II he would back down. He
didn't. While Dynamite stood dancing
from hoof TO hoof. waving her sharp