The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-03-23

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IE5 E1i E.s.. $780,. ra....' with an.
lsS.Ll.--..s....1 o..s" .ooH+ rgu what S.,
looHaLIy lC.'ynj ID ot rsiupc Gu,
plan for establishing ourselves cDm.
fortably. We were thea saiesman in
one of the g"ea, stores n Boston. We
were not al,ogeihcr happy ia our oc-
cupation. Tor We liked out-Of-ioor lie.
As we had been prudent enough to
save a little money. va thOighr We
might look about. Luy some old farm.
stock it with sheep. ana live laisurpiy
and beautifully on our mutton aud by
the sale of our wool.
We talked the scheme over through
out one entire winter and spring. aud
spent our two weeks Of summcr vara-
ton driving through the nOrthrr.y
counties Of Vermont. Now Hampshire
and Maine. in quest OF old rarm prop
erty. At last we found in Maine what
suited MS pretty we.l--foGr run.Jut. up
land adjoining homesteaGs o: aboat 100
acres each; and we were abl, to pur-
chase all 70. $500
As there was much similar farm
property near by, We could. if our eX-
pertinent proved a success. add 10 our
territory and increase our stock Al
the outset ana during the succeeding
autumn ana winter. Va purchased 100
sheep which we divided into four
iOckS
on one Of tue four farms was q far
ly comfortable old house. and in the
spring we went there 10 live. having
engaged as housel:ecppr an elderly bat
very energetic woman We called Aunt
Deborah.
Our npighbDr, were seven or eight
families, none wholly prosperous, some
sloyenly and sAifuoss; ard they all
kept dogs.
Within a radius oi two miles of or
sheep pasture there were, as we soon
had occasion to reckon. seventeen or
eighteen dogs. including four hounds
and all exceedingly dear to their own
ers. There were "ottt- dogs" and
'bear dogs and partridge dogs" and
a great many ycry valuable wood
chuck dogs" and many OF these pre-
cious aulmals were fond of mukn"
nocturnal raids into our sheep pasture
Now, our legislators have not left us
III darkness as TO what steps may .e-
galIy be taLen against mischieyous
dogs Whoever win examine the s,a-
lute books OF almost any State viii
una articles iInitlh- GJTs strictly. ana
declaring that Il dog uahSIre'Ses the
pdictS he NAV lawfully - killed For
MaSsachlseits me conclusion is thlt
any person may laN'u.!F XII lreS'
passing dog whenever ana wherever
found.
In me hrSt Sh'IhG ol'T we had tax
Nh up our sheep ia'm We had 40
,aH'Ds Wheh inc sH'ap we turned o"i
10 pasture on the tAifd d"% o. May.
tour days iateF SIX l'IlDS "AN two
sheep were missing H.i' ~ wool.
bones ana tue remains OF On" SHe1p. ad
louhd IN SeclHdrd PAGES. Show! 'H't
some animal had t.!.ed a&d c2,'a
them.
AS bears or W'.d1a.6 were no. nrin-
erous IN that !1'a.'iy we fe't morally
certain that dog had done the mis-
,hlet' ana We particularly suspected
two dogs E2p, hy H'.slbor named
McFaddcn, lF'E- mile dIStaIt. one
was bulldog, The oihor large mon
grel cur, one OF IN" -'ch'? esteemed
woodchuck doSs.
My partEcr and fellow shepherd.
Ward. carried two buffalo skins TO the
pasture, hid himself In clump Of low
hemlockS. ana watched dur a2 the fol
lowing night with a gun resolved "a
shoot any dog that came near tar re-
mains Of the sheep. He saw none. al
though a lamb was .:ii.Cd during tho
night in another part Of the pa lure
When dogs 90 sheep killing they seem
90 revert to the ,unnin3 and slyncss oil
'hcir Wild ancestry.
In all these yeNations had warm
sympathiler n aunt Deb She hat.
ed dogs on general principles. and for
the special reason that on uUr!ber
Of nights when The 1ulkhead door
ehanced to be left open, some animal
stole into the cellar and raided her
pans of d0uehnuts. cUstard pies and
other catahles
Now. boys, iast YOU let me try my
nand on those dogs" she said, at the
breakfast table IN fla 'cm FOR you
when II comes nisi. you Just go n
bed ani sleep. I'll answer for tho
dogs
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