Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-04-28
ne HAD HIS REVENGE.

themselves n are therefore moi 10 DC
considered dog partisans are rather
glad that the d~og-muzzling ordinance
has thus lapsed.
The ordinance caused tragedies n
heartbreaks among the canine haut ton.
Ii spread dismay and grief among the
jeunesse doree OF dogdom. The ordi-
nance. in its practical application, gave
the roaming cur a palpable edge on the
patrician dog. Had Julius Caesar been
bucked and gagged, he were no better
warrior than the most loutish water
carrier among his legions. Had Ma
poleon's olive co~untenance been fitted
with a strap. the noisiest brawler in
his braggart battalions had been as
willy in counsel and magnetic in action
as the Corsican. Nature provided dogs
with teeth, just as it provided pugi-
lists with tongues and typewriters, or
barkeeperS with bungstarters, as
weapons of defense. And ii CAV all
dogs teeth alike and impartially-mon-
grels and thoroughbreds. But the
mighty hand of the law-to employ a
frazzled OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES in and
took away the high-grade NUTS only
method of defense, thereby giving the
hobo dog, that remained unmuZZled, be-
cause, being q nomad, he was pos
sessed by nobody, a cherished opportu-
nifty to lick the patrician dog right out
Of his hoofs and hide.
In Washington, however, there are a
number OF owners of high bred dogs
who, because the dog-muZzling ordi-
nance still stands, conscientiously muz-
lle their dogs, if only for the purpose
cf cleaving to the line Of scrupulous
citizenship.
One of these still-muzzled dogs is a
bull terrier, the domicile OF whose ex-
ceedingly conscientious owner is on S
street, between Seventh and Four
teenth, which is precise enough. Be-
fore the d~og-muzzling ordinance came
along this bull terrier used to be the
bully OF his ne~ighborhood. His pedigree
is spread on the Almanac de Gotha of
Dogdom in extra heayy-faced type. He
lis a hummer of a fighting dog, and as
soon as he turned up on S street a few.
years ago all of the dogs i'm his princi-
patty made obeisance to him and
tacltly acknowledged that he was their
overload and the entire works.
In return, the bull terrier let them
alone. All that he demanded was their
unquestioning fealty, and he got 1t. OF
course, however, this nabob among bull
terriers required exercise. He got it in
a 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 his
taking a nice, easy constitutional. Then
some w~retched, skulking cur, unawareI
of the danger lurking in that neighbor-
hood, would come nos1ng along the
sidewalk. The princely bull terrier
would coolly hop the front fence, re-
move a few pounds of pelt from the
outcast, and then jump back to his
ward fia HOurp ap6 hliaI- aa,flxy
In the sun, entirely satisfied with him
self.
One day the bull terrier put this trick
over the plate on the un~offending car
cass of a dog OF any old breed-a little
Newfoundland, some shepherd, per-
haps a soupcon of mastiff-that un-
wariiy happened by his gate. The out
cast took his %thrashing meekly, anG
went his m%ournful, directionless way,
limping.
Not very long after that. the dog.
muZzling ordinance came in. and tho
; street bull terrier a to stand for
the facial strap, his owner being a
conscientious man, as stated. The dog
has been muzzled ever since, in spite
of the non-enforcement of the muzzling
law, because the owner Of the terrier
believes that ordinances were made to-
stick. and not to be smashed by non
believers In them.
One raw morniGg last week-just
about two years after the date of the
thrashing he had administered to the
mongrel that a a little of New
foundland, some shepherd and a bit OF
mastiH 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 was not to be wiped
OF. 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 bull
terrier walked out OF his gate the part
Observation-Disclosures : collie
hobo that he a filed his teeth on
nearly two years before peeked eau
tIously around the corner fence. Al
his first glance the hobo dog only got a
rear view or the bull terrier. and he
looked as IL he was going to bolt for it
right quick.
The writer hereof lays claim TO only
the lowest possible order of magma
tion-but IL that wayfaring dogs eyes
didn't seem to twinkle with ghonlish
glee, and If he didn't appear to pull
himself together and to lick his chops
with ~revengeful anticipation, there's a
mistake somewhere.
For half a minute, while he peeked
around the corner of the fence, 10
Dihhc pcTttCjy certain IndL the quiz
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
w pairs. and what I'm a-going to do
TO hfm-well. watch me. that's. all"
hen the hobo dog took il on the
run, making three jumps of it, and lit
square q top OF the bull terriers back.
The bull terrier was quick to recover.
but recovering wasn't the thing.
He yelped and growIed and tried to
put up the old scarifying bluff. but he
didn't have the cards.
The wayfarer with the long memory
took II comfortable and easy. and In
side Of something less than two min
utes he had made the bull terrier look
hk ten tin taels Of Tientsin.
He removed chunks from the b,II
terrier. 1t was all mitigating. with the
wayfarer doing AL the business. The
only trouble was there was no gong To
save the bull terrier. He had 10 take
i as u came. with no intermission he
tween rounds.
n hobo dragged him around hv Tho
neck, the bull terrier ineffectl,auv
Kicking his legs IN the air like a turned
over cockroach. Then the nomad m,,tt
turned his victim loose, lust To- eniov
seeing him run. The bull terrie,
scooted, but the mutt WAS built het-
ter for speed, and in two jumps he WAS
ON top OF the patrician again. Rifjny
him calmly, but with diligence and
power, on both ears. and stopninr Ia
shaw some when he got a particularlv
good clutch fba hnhu yxy,~~