The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-31
MAD DOG SCARE ]!
TlHIbIs Excitement in (qI Thriving TOWn--- Nobody
 Killed Dead!

Last Wednesday morning about 9 o'clock a. m. the shril1, derisive cry of Mad dog !" Mad dogr r' rung out on the air of Bingville. It was Tb Perkins, who hollered 1t. Everybody run out of there houses and sure enough there, coming up the street was a yeller dog frothin at the mouth and yeiping and apparently trying to bite hisself in two, The ex. sited citizens of Bingville at once recog- nized this dog as belonging to Ras Slo- comb. Ras got this dog when he was a pupp (not Ras but the dogl from Bale Hawkins. down Snake Bend way Ras traded Bale a old pair of boots for the pupp, which has not been much good ever since but to chase cats and go into houses when nobody was looking and steal things ofEen the table. This was probably be- cause the dog wasn't brought up right Ras he ain't so awful well bred hisseli and how could you expect him to make Ia gentleman out of a dog?
 1 We'll, the dog come a-runnin up the street like all Sam Hin and the crowd pi our most respected citizens took up thC cry of Mad dogl'' Ike Henderson. whC was asleep settin on a nail keg in Her | Weathersby's store, woke up and wanted | to know what the dog was mad about | Eph Higgins, our acomodating F. M, rar out into the street to see what was thu matter, but when he saw the dog coninl Eph cIim up a lamp post ana holleret help.
 Miss Amelia Tucker. the belle of Bing vile, was just crossing the street iron the Tucker residence to the Widow Skin l ner's to borrow a settin of east to raisl l bread when she saw the dog coming With great presence of mind she startet
 to run but slipped and fell where sh
 laid gasping and panttng until the awfu
 beast had went past Nothing was hur |. |
 dignity.
 As good luck would have 1t Seth Dew
 berry, our brave town constable, was ol
 his way down street to get a package O long cut smoking at Hen Weathersby'
 store. and when the people saw Set
 coming they hollered to him to kill tn
 dog and save them. With characteristic
 courage Seth hid in a alley until afte
 the dog had went past him about
 quarter of a mile, and then he emerge
 and struck out after it as hard as h [ could tear He said later if he had onl , of caught up to the dog that either hi1 , or it would of had to bit the dust Bu
 Seth didn't ketch the dog because
 turned around and started back down th street again, and when 1t done this Set } he cllm a tree in front of Deacon Bui ? terworth's residence, and as the dog wer q past him he yelled bravely "Git out, yo z dodgasted craven cur! '"
 By this time Bill Hepburn, our sta t wart and artistick blacksmith, left hl ? forge and got out Into the street just s n the dog was coming hekety-spllt bac down the street. Bill he jumped rigl ' out into the road in front of the dogI Every person held its breathl a They thought Bill would surely be b e by the mad dog and so mad hisself! - But Bill he only said to the dog, in 1. coaxin voice, Here doggie. here doggie
 poor doggie!'
 r Queer as 1t may seem. that yalI,
 dog stopped runnin and went right u
 to BiH and Bill he stoops down ar
 springs open a steel rat trap which wa
 fast to its tail, and then the dog turnpe
 all over Bill and licked his hands an e done everything 1t could to show ho much obliged it was to him.
 The crowd gethered around Bfl an congratulated him on his extren l- bravery. Bill would be a awful uaae b citizen in case of a emergency It's C n bad he gets drunk every week ragala !. Everybody was wondering how
 come the dog happened to have a ri 7 trap to it's tail when Ras sloeombs wl . owned the dog land does yeD come alor I. and explained. It seems Ras had 8
 the trap for rats beside his fireplace
 the settin room and that the dog com