The Washington herald., 1908-05-24
MAD DOG SCARE!
!EEiibIe ESSitement in OuI
Thriving Town. Nobody
Killed Dead!

Last Wednesday morning about s
CLOCK a. m the shTill. derislve cry OF
Mad dog! Mad dog, rung out on the
air OF Bingville. 1t was Eb Perkins. who
hollered H. Everybody run out Of there
houses and sure enough there. coming ,,n
the street. was a yeller dog frothin a,
! the mouth and yelping and apparently
trying 10 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
pupp (not Ras but the dog) from Bale
Hawkins. down Snake Bend way. Ras
traded Bale old pair OF boots for the
pupp. which has not been much good ever
since but 70 chase cats and 20 into houses
when nobody was looking and steal things
often the table This was probably he
cause the dog wasn't brought up right
Ras he amt so awful well bred hisseIF
and how could you expect him 70 make
a gentleman out OF a dog?
Well. the dog come a-rinnin IN The
street Ike all Sam Hill and the crow6 OF
our most respected citizens took up the
cry OF Mad dog" Ike Henderson. who
was asleep settin on a nail keg in Hen
Weathersbys store. woke UP and wanted
TO know what the dog was mad abou,
n
out Into the street TO see what was .ba
mattsc. rlt when he -aw the dog cor,tns
Eph elm up lamp post and hollered
help.
Miss Amelia Tucker. the belle OF RJrg-
Vile, was just crossing the street from
the Tucker residence TO the Widow skin
ner's ID borrow a settin OF east 10 raisa
bread. when she saw the dog cor,yps,
With great presence Of mind she started
10 run but slipped and fell where she
laid gasrsnS and painting until the awful
beast hao wens past. Nothing was bur,
about Amelia except her feelings ana
dignity.
AS good luck would have II Seth Dew.
berry. our brave town constable vvas ~
his way down street to get a package %
long cut smoking at Hen Weathersbv's
store. and when the people saw Seth
coming they hollered to him to kin the
dog and save them. With characteristicLr
courage Seth hid in a alley until after
the dog had went past him about q
quarter OF a mile, and then he emerged
and struck out after it as hard as he
could tear. He said later II he had onIr,
OF caught up to the dog that either hIro
or II would OF had 20 bit the dust BI,t
Seth didn't ketch the dog because 90
turned around and started back down tbo
street again. and when It done this Seth
he elm tree In front OF Deacon R,,t-
terworth's residence. and as the dog wen,
past him he yelled bravely, "Git ont ven
dodgasted craven cur :"
BY this time Bill Hepburn. our r,o,-
wart and artistick blacksmith. left nj.
forge and got out into the street inst as
the dog was coming lickety-spIIt hack
down the street. Bill ne Jumped r,gbt
out into the road in front OF the doei
Every person held its breath!
They thought Bill would surely no btt
by the mad dog and go mad hisselft
But Bill he only said to the dog. In a
coaxin voice. Here doggie, here dogrie-
poor doggier'
Queer as It may seem, that vaua-
dog stopped runnin and went right I'm
70 Bill and BIZ he stoops down and
springs open a steel rat trap which was
fast to its tail. and then the dog Jumped
all over Bill and licked his hands and
done everything It could to show how
much obliged It was TO him.
The crowd gethered around BIZ and
congratulated him on his extreme
bravery. BIZ would be a awful useful
citizen in case Of emergency. It's too
bad he gets drunk every week regular. /
Everybody was wondering how It !
come the dog happened to have a rat
trap TO its tail when Ras Slocomb, who |
owned the dog (and does yeti come along |
and explained. 1t seems Ras had set /
the trap for rats beside his fireplace in ]
the settin room and thGt the dos come,