Year: 1864

From The Baton Rouge Comet.l


There is friend of ours at the club in
Florida street, who has fancy for all kinds
of pets, especially for small dogs. With a
sagacity common to dogs, they seem to
know this, and when one of these service.
able animals happens-in the confusion in
cident to the times-to lose his master, or
to be turned adrift on the charity of the
world, because of the high price of beef
he makes his way round to the club, in
Florida street, where G. at once collars him
that is to say, invests in collar and adds
one more dog to his retinue. A few days
ago very shabby specimen came to the
door, asked the other dogs If q. was at
home, and being answered in the atfirma-
tive, walked in, stretched himself on the
back piazza and made himself comfortable.
When the club met in the evening, among
other things, the new dog became the topic
of their conversation. All the members
averred, that in their varied experience and
observation of dogs, they had seen nothing
like this. Neither his maternal nor paternal
parent could be agreed upon, and it was at
length determined he must be "a cross on
several crosses" The front view of his
face presented scratch between the weazel
and wolf, with moustache. goatce and side
whiskers, such as Mr.. Crank Leslie would
put on q Broadway swell. Part of his
shaggy coat has the nap turned ait and the
other part leeward. Still it is well nature
has made it so, and very proper and SER
viceable no doubt. The dog himself feels
in no way responsible for it, and one OF
the wise points attained by nature in this is
identity; he seems fully aware of the fact
that he is not the first dog laughed at, and
it is by his personal appearance he is known
in a crowd or among other dogs in general
Has not every "man" some mark OIL
mole whereby he is distinguished from
other men? Yea, verify. What a sad world
if all dogs and all men were in point oi
fact alike! Confusion itself would be con-
founded. The great could not be separated
from the small. The moral aspect of the
thing, however, we leave for others, as we
have no fit for moralizing now. What we
want to say is this: The new dog walked
out the other evening alone to take an air.
ing aud look at the ''purlieus" of this in
teresting city. In Third street, some mid
dle-aged gentleman, who had invested in a
new brand of Christadora's dye, and de-
sired to give the liquid practical test be-
fore applying it to his own face-inveigled
or rather wheedled G.'s new dog into a
back room, took the collar off and by an
application of the villainous compound
converted the dog into regular striped
hyena. After the elderly gentleman had
tested the quality of his compound, he
turned the dog loose to make tracks back to
the club room, in Florida street. Some OF
the smaller dogs seeing him coming, got
frightened, lowered their caudal append
ages and ran bowling into the next street.
The larger dogs being braver and having
just grounds to be so, by virtue of superior
strength, pitched into the painted animal,
and after making the fur fly, acknowledged
themselves acquainted with him; members
of the club came in and kicked the nonde-
script out; and it was not until G. himself
walked in that any solution came. He at
once recognized his lost pet, victimized by
conspiracy. The animal was held to a
glass that he might see himself as others
see him. We need hardly say the poor
dog was Mortified, could with difficulty be
restrained from fighting his own shadow
and has taken refuge under the house
where i'll seclusion he is no longer the sub.
ject of criticism. AS soon as G. can fine
the elderly gentleman of Third street, it |:
his purpose to prosecute him unless he had
permit of authority for his barbarous
conduct