Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1915-11-04
A CANINE TRAGEDY
Trouble Came In Bmches With
the Purchase OF a Watchdog.
ONE NIGHT OF WILD RUcTIoN.

1t Taught the Battered Master OF thu
Wrecked Home That Under Som'
Circumstances a Burglar May b
Better Company Than Mastiff.
III man is afraid of burglars" said
Quackenbush, 'he can't have better
safeguard than a good Watchdog"
But where is he going to get the
good Watchdog inquired Clinken.
beard. "Such animals don't grow on
trees, and they are not advertised by
department stores.
''Of course, If you go around telling
that you are in the market for watch
dog every man who has chicken kill
ing pup he wants to get rid Of will
tell you that his critter is just what
you are hunting for, But you'll try
out million dogs before you find one
that will get down to brass headed
nails and do police duty.
1.-TWO or three years ago there was a
burglar scare out in our suburb. Sew
eral houses had been entered and some
false hair and things carried away. So
my wife got so nervous she couldn't
sleep at night. She was sure some
masked bandit would break In and
steal the What Is Home Without a
Mother chrome from over the mantel,
and just to give her sense of security
bought a big mastiff and took him
home and chained him to a tree ir
front Of the house.
along about II o'clock at night that
dog got to thinking over his misspent
life, and remorse gnawed at his heart
strings, and he began lamenting the
past. He had the most bloodcurdling
voice ever heard. Every yell he let
out froze the marrow In my bones.
He'd begin with sort of plaintive
wall and wind up with a howl that
would remind you Of hyena In a
graveyard on rainy night. My wife
said the uproar would have to be
stopped and I'd better bring the dog
into the house. He'd probably be quiet
there.
$50 slid into few rags and went
and into the yard. Just as
I approached the dog old Billshaw.
who lived next door, opened his bed |
room window and threw an old frying |
pan. OF course he meant it for the |
dog. but his aim was poor and it caught !
me in the bread basket and Knocked |
the wind out of me.
II sat down on the grass and gasped |
for breath, and a shower Of bottles AMI
bootjacks and stove wood came from
window, and every blamed
Item hit me in one place or another.
When l finally got my breath / yelled
to Billshaw to let up, for he was muir
dering me, and he said It was just
what / deserved for keeping such u
where it would give the
whole neighborhood the horrors.
After had rubbed my bruises for
half an hour took the dog into the
house and went back to bed. was
Just dropping of to sleep when I was
reused by the allfiredest racket II
sounded as though the side of the
house was falling in. Ny wife was
,hrieking that the dog was upsetting
Ill the furniture and ruining every
hing. So 1 went downstairs again,
quoting a few passages from Webster's
Dictionary.
Il had forgotten about the cat when
took the dog into the house. But the
log had discovered the pet and was
hasing 1t through the house. and you
lever saw such a scene of wreckage Il
Everything that wasn't nailed down ,
ad been overturned, and nearly every
hing was broken. The gas light was ,
urning, and there was the cat hanging ,
0 the gas fixtures and the dog stand
ng on his hind legs trying to reach I
er. II
my memories of what followed are
ather confused l seem to recall grab 6
ing the dog by the scruff OF the neck I
o take him outdoors, and he bit /
ample from my shin, and then we 3
1ixed things on the floor. managed {
0 stuff the pincushion into his mouth ]
0 he couldn't bite, and we resorted to 3
ireco- Roman wrestling ,
Then the cat came down from the :
as fixture and took hand and clawed I
cost of my scalp of. and my wife +
anne to the rescue with the poker
he said afterward that she was try ,
az to bit the dog. l reckon I'd have
cen on ice next day If the neighbors
admit come TN with shotguns and prun- =
az hooks and such things and pried :
p apart.
THAT experience was enough for me- :
d rather have forty burglars on the :
remises than one watchdog."-Wal
Jason in Chicago News. :
Stationers.
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