The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-07-06
OLD DOG THAT
-EQyGHE0I#EDEAIH
The Passing of Pero And the Loss of a F~dend-ALe Leaf Out of
FsyefievHIe's Old History.


through his ugly. Scared body by farm
e-s and farmers r,,da kinds xho xan.
avn ~ =" "-D -
loaTeS. scythes anu pltch toTAs' All
h sobbed ou- his weary life alone t2r
f-on his master and hIS homo hi,
- 49, "
LINUS VI i ounca o. I"AAeAi IL al "'@
field. Poor Eide OChiltree. the Kings
bAieman in Sc,tf's r~Antiouarv. ntr-
- r,r.f
1870
II jAe cave III . KUN :, >10 " piss
ing awaT. Few folks Ken o this
ploce.'' said The old man TO <ne h.st
r,r t.rorlas .h.~- ;,,s, ~, ~
- "a
ing DE IL! 9T--, AZ t4a1 ; J-H5'Ns ~~@
and the Long L,nher. nave Aad many
a. thoucEt.tha IA hen I found rlyself
-,,a.,x *t.i ~ .ot,.
-
500 : pressed Az any o-Ase1@ / -
drag myself here we d pickle att-Inea4
and, see, there's a bit ponny trapping
we'll -that popplrs that seIt-saiAe gait
winter anu SUMMER -eHa "au ToSn
streek myself L here and abide n
removal. like, an auid dog that TRAITS
lbs useless. ugsome carcass into some
bush Or 0Tacken not 10 gle h'Ih-
things a sumner WI the 7lsht OF
when its dead. Az. ana jhel' %Aeh
the dog barked az the lone tarmSteal,
the guide wife Wad cry. MIST sllrFa'
that'll be auld Edle. ana the DIS Q
means Wad II" pulr tntngs, ana lod-
die to the door, to pu on the auld oioe-
gown thai mends a their DounE-u1tS-
but there Wad be nae mar "oTd y
Edie, | throw"
Ny dog friend had not a a
spot on nina h~eaVy-rodleu 0noAL.
limbed old gladla or among MS htao
a thoroughbred with a white hlde.
spotted heavily with oiach'a Dig SUI
born head, and the na1F ON MS nee"
h~affruned as II ne was always iTans
for the .wOst-and }er l heEel
lOked at him WhlCoO( tAlhhAns VI
BarrleS "RabD, OF tAR htash'hhHI'
dog hero in Jack Cail OIL ~
Wild HIS name was zero y" '1''
caught drifting out 01 the iNISts -
logged current OF ClasSh history ahh
he was the property or COi. JosePh D
Shaw. .t-..
Peroas predominant Ch&racterlslte9
were fdility which lasted 4Hnp'uf the
last gasp of life IN his manned oodF-
and pugnacity. for be was as sruh ano
grim as Diogines; as GuaTrtiSome a
Thessites, as .peppery as oycoTaA. -f1if
life, was divided nghllns am
walking insedate,, dignited procession
For the first half OF the time
which. made Up ais career
Of the time which made up his caTee:
mv-where would do for an arena 10,
him-Green street, Market SQUARE.
- backward, or a stall IN the I~ivery"sta
&. bic. His antagonist had only 70 sh'F
toomap, and Pero went. His pro
> cession was a dinoual parade or TWO.
. his master. a hale old septuageparla'
with grizzled. close-cTOpped hair am
. erect from. leaning on his cane, an
,,.t;no his hand to his ear The
ma acoosted him-a reproducing.
: from copper-plate of a French FRS
Fmnire officer. who knew Messena 0
:. marched. over the Alps behind n
. "Titt,a CornoraI." Behind him trOtte
. pa-o-no ne never ~cDndescendei
rro+. he walked-away from the pl2eS
on+ home ON Rowan street: over Eccle
bridge where Pero would pause !
,o.,k contamplatively al the water lusr
inc over the dam, or perhaps scen1in
mEkrats in the dark eddiesi then :
the Office, where, # the weather va
cold, he ~ensconced himself IN a %
: near the store: and if warm lay II u
shade under the ouler Wal - 49, ~,
: Last spring, Pero's master alo Dy ~
: what .Pero mad never oone ~ u
: a: home, ana going of on a. a isp b.,
=. outing to Moore,s CREEK. bID To- H.
loosed himself-is there anEJnlhs -
- than cnaln. a .o ;if cnnane ~ anglo,
= steeL-ceHl haL w ~ go over + /.
80 57a;r+anc IF his ma
came on Two acqualn' .ha aoore
" ter, ABOUT 20 lea'e ~ 49, aog Ena
~ Creekfshing overland. ne ro5
his men, guessing . ~ a+ion a.
70 intuition 1neL .6o nartv II
" s1ralsntHaS -Jolneu - to.r ng-sonns
Of WINE L t od1heu Raj i~ndividna
Ha TofTISPn 10 IL uSL u AlA~A