The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-26
TAKES A BLACK MAN
1 TO MAKE A REAL DOG
A Proposition BY the Brooklynite
Who Has the Care of Brace5
Up Terrier to Prove L.

I wonder what there ia in the make up
Of plain, ordinary. everyday black man
and brother that tends 10 bolster up the
character Of a dog?- was the inquiry. ling
for no reply, submitted ny the Brooklyn
man.
I'm the owner Of a dog whose whole
nature and temperament have been revo-
lutionized by two months Of contact with a
black man, and I'd like to know what the
game Of the black man ia in handling dogs,
20 that in case my mutt ever hackslides
III be able 70 brace him up gain in accord
ance with the black mans method.
This mutt Of mine h. a fox terrier about
years old. I've raised him from a two
weeks-old pup. He's a nice, clean, hand
some dog, and I'd be afraid 10 name in
dollars the enormous valuation that my wife
puts upon him.
But, all the same, that dog was a keen
d aappointmsnt 70 me up TO a very recent
date. Why? Because he DIDN'T appear to
have any spunk. be wouldn't fight. He
wouldn't get his dander up. He wouldn't
show me how cute he could raiqa the hair
on his spine and look mad and vicious.
II was a moment Of anguish when first
discovered that that dog had no grit, as
did And Il out even before he'd got any
thing like his full growth. He d four flush
around with his tan up and cheerful look
In his eye as long a. no bother impended
but Just as soon as he perceived that another
dog that he met up with was even a teenchy
little bit on the fight, that terrier OF mine
would begtn to look as II four or five hired
men had been trying to beat him TO death
with hoes. His tail d fop down. and
hie ears would droop back on his head
and he q crouch and stink along In a manner
that made me sore.
He grew into a muscular and we'll filed
out mutt, capable Of putting up any old kind
OF q scrap with a dog Of his weight II he'd
had the pluck, but the truth waa that he
didn't have any more sand than a cater
pillar. My wife considered that this waa'
an admirable trait IN the dog, and asked
me n ] wanted 70 have for n household
pet bat-eared bully Of dog that "a BE-
biting the beads on Of smaller dogs in the
neighboThood and chasing cats and finally
getting himself poisoned by a neighbor.
Nope, told her. didn't want any such
COG az that around my premises. But
did want dog that wouldn't crawl through
the fence every time he saw a measly
half starved vsller dog coming down the
street don't think any man likes 70 have
a dog on his stan that won't give trouble a
HE way.
i tried 70 arousa a sense of shame In that
dog, but / couldn't get by with IL. There
wasn't any shame in him.
i came pretty near sourinR on him for
good and all when, last summer he per-
mitted a common, shopping little r1Int az
black-and-tan dog u hop him one even
ing when ] had him out for a walk. and
nail him to an alley fence and rive hiu,
all Kinds Of sass and back talk in the canine
language. Nary a move did that dog N
mine make 20 put up his mauiiea end make
little sparrinR match Of IL, He didn't
even show his teeth, He Just took thar
miserable hlack-and-tan's slack without a
Word until felt like kicking him
We'll, whom the medical man ordered nv
wife 20 Florida = coople Of months AGO
and she persuaded me into ACCOMMODATING
her, We had 70 hunt up somebody 70 taks