The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1905-04-28
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which there was such II great QUERY
on the part of dog owners not So long
ago, has already become Virtually II
dead letter. enforced more in the breach
than in the observance. n good many
persons who do not possess dogs
themselves and are therefore not To he
considered dog partisans are rather
glad that the ~dog-mu22ling ordinance
has thus lapsed.
TIL" ordinance caused tragedies N
hcirtbreahs among the canine htut ton.
IL spread diSmay and grief among the
jeunesse doree of doGdom. The ordi-
nance. in its practical application, gave
the roaming cur II palpable edge on the
patrician dog. Had Julius Caesar been
hucked and gagged. ne We're no better
warrior thin the most loutish water
carrier among his legions. Had Ma
poleon'S olive Countenance been lifted
With Il strap. the noisiest braWler in
his hrasgart battalions had been as
Willy in counsel and magnetic in action
us the Corsican. Nature provided dogs
with teeth. just as it provided pugi-
lists With tongues and typewriters, OF
barkeeperS With bungstarters. as
Weapons of defense. And it gave all
dogs teeth alike and inpartialIy-mon-
Srels and thoroughbreds. III the
mighty hand of the law-to employ u
fraZzled Observation-Disclosures in and
took away the ~high-srade NUTS only
method of defense. thereby giving the
hobo dog, that remained unmuZzled. be
cause. being n nomad, he WAS pos
sessed by nobody. a cherished opportu-
nifty TO lick the patriciau dog right out
Of his hoofs and hide.
In Washington. however. there are n
n,nber OF ownors of high bred dogs
who, because the dog-muZzling ordi-
nance still stands, co~nscientiously muZ-
Ie their dogs. if only for the purpose
of cleaving to the line of %scrupulous
citizenship.
One of these still-muzzled dogs is a
bull terrier. the domicile of whose eX-
eeedinslS conscientious owner is on S
street. between Seventh and Four
teenth. which is precise enough. BEL
fore the doS-muZzling ordinance came
along this bull terrier used to be the
bully of his ~neighborhood. His pedigree
is spread on the Almanac de Gotha of
Dogdom in extra heavy-faced type. He
is Il hummer OF a fighting dog. and as
soon as he turned up on S street a few
years ago all of the dogs in his princi-
pality made obeisance to him and
tacitly acknowledged that he was their
overload and the entire works.
In return, the bull terrier let them
alone. All that he demanded was their
unpuestioning fealty, and he got it. OF
course, however. this nabob among bull
terriers required exercise. He got ii in
Il mild, comfortable way, by eating UP
all of the stray, unpossessed. hobo dogs
that happened to stink by his front
gate
He would sit on his front door steps
licking his chops and summing him-,
self and waiting for something soft to.
paddle along that would permit of hisl
taking a nice, easy constitutional. Then,
some Wretched, Skulking cur, unaWarei
of the danger lurking in that neighbour
hood, would come nosing along the
sidewalk. The princely bull terrier
/ would rnn1lNr hon tho y,.N,,t To,,-. 30
move q few pounds of pelt from the
outcast. and then jump back to his
yard, lie down and blink complacently'
in the sun, entirely satisfied with him
self.
one day the bull terrier put this trick
over the plate on the unoffending car
cass of a dog of any old breed-a little
Newfoundland, some shepherd, per-
haps a soupcon of mastiff-that UNI
warllN happened by his gate. The out
cast took his thrashing meekly. AND
went his mournful, directionless way,
! limping.
Not very long after that. the dog
muZZlinS ordinance came i'm. and the
5 street bull terrier had to stand for
he facial strap. his owner being a
conscientious man, as stated. The dog
has been muZzled ever since. i'm spite
of the non-enforcement of tie muzzling
law, because the owner of the terrier
believes that ordinances were made to-
stick, and not to be smashed by nom
{ believers in them.
One raw morning last week-just
about two years after the date of the
thrashing he had administered TO the
monSrel that had a little of New
foundland. son shepherd and n bit of
mastiff in him-the S street bull terrier
sat on his front steps, trying to wipe
his muzzle off with his paws and look
ing poignantly unhappy. The muzzle
| was on To STAY and Wos moi 10 ba >Ni1,a.l
off. The dog took a gloomy front-paw
stretch and walked out of his front
gate With his tail down.
1t happened that just as the bun
terrier walked out of his gate the part
Observation-Disclosures : collie
hobo that he had filed his teeth ON
nearly two years before peeked eau
tiouSlN around the corner fence. At
his first glance the hob dog only got IL
rear view of the bull terrier, and he
looked as if he was going to bolt for it
right quick.
The writer hereof lays claim to only
the lowest possible order of imagina-
ion-but If that wayfaring dogs eyes
didn't seem to twinkle with ghouliSh
glee, and if he didn't appear TO pull
himself together and to lick his chops
with r%evengeful anticipation, there's a
mistake somewhere.
For half a minute. While he peeked
around the corner of the fence, to
make perfectly certain that the bull
terrier was securely muzZled, the out
cast might, from the joy that glowed
In his eyes. have been thought to be
saying unto himself. Here's where I've
got a pat full to that %stuck-up NUTS
two pairs. and what I'm a-going to do
to him-well. watch me. that's all!"
Then the hobo dog took it on the
run. making three jumps of it, and lit
square on top of the bull terriers back.
r'lhn Al ntsyinp W. I 10
but recovering wasn't the thing.
He yelped and growled and tried to
put up the old sc%arifying bluff, but he
didn't have the cards.
/. The wayfarer with the long memory
took it comfortable and easy, and in
side of something less thar two min
'utes he had made the bull terrier look
like ten tin taels of Tientsin.
lie removed chunks from the bull
terrier. 1t was all in-fighting. with the