Year: 1876

house, stealing the piece Of soup meat out Of the pot where it has just been put to cook for the family dinner, and let an

 equestrian ride by the house and the dog

 will know it instantly and will drop ever

 rything for the ioray. Even a mangy dog

 in Tucson would rather snap at a horses

 heels than have his back scratched with a

 patent curry comb. In our observations

 we have discovered that the dogs work up

 this matter on sort Of organized princi-

 pie. They run In gangs, each SC: Of long

 tailed, loose Iointed. slab sided CUTS hay

 ing its own trysting place or neighbor-

 hood from which To sally forth at the ap-

 proach Of a luckless steed and It's rider.

 And the different sets work in sympathet- ic succession. One gang starts 8 passing

 horse and follows it with perfect bedlam

 Of barks until relieved by a neighboring gang. when the first set drop the chase and return with whisKing tails and leer-

 Ing jaws to their native heath. Tn this

 way there Is none Of the horse or rider

 wasted.

 But there Is sweet consolation in know ing that these canine guerillss sometimes

 meet with condign punishment 4 friend Of ours has 8 horse which though he can't take . city ike the famed Trojan horse, trO~ deadJ has by long practice acquired Cuch proficiency that he can take dog on

 any part or his body by striking at him

 with one Of bis fore feet. And he doesn't

 botch any Of ilis worE either. Whichever

 part Of the dog is struck retires from &C.,

 tive business :oE life. IT Its an ear, the dog har 10 worry oCt he remainder of his days on one ear. If it's the tail, the dog counts his tail among the loved and lost.

 1T this horse strikes dog In the middle Of the back, kIs victim is spoiled for dog and had better be at once transformed in- to deviled ham or toilet soap. The way

 acquired by the horse for he wasn't born

 with it) was ss follows: Our friend, his owner, was and is very fond Of a ride on

 horse back, and while he often rides alone

 rather than not ride at all, his especial

 weakness (so considered by us) is to secure

 the company Of some lady friend with

 whom to take a horse back ride in the quiet calm Of our beautiful southern even

 ings. Several years ago he met and loved

 . fair descendant Of Eve. who was then g-ac!ng this hOmely but pleasant hamlet

 with her presence. But while burning with suppressed love. he had as yet been unable to muster up courage to avow his RvOwals and ask her to share his future slap-jacks. Her father was a distant rela- ton Of q second lieutenant In a cavalry company then stationed in Tucson, and naturally she had the run Of several gov ernment horses and had become a very fair equestrienne. So 1t happened that our friend and his enslaver had come to take frequent rides together, and as men who hesitate to do anything, frequently choose the most unfavorable Of times to

 finally to it, SO our friend concluded to draw his lottery while out riding with the lady one evening. He had put of the momentous declaration until they were entering the town on their return. The animals had fallen into an easy walk, the sun had dropped behind the hills, the low hum Of insects in the fields herslded the approach Of evening, the quiet luIl Of departing day was on all the town, as our hero turned in desperation to his mate and said, ArabeIla, have long had something in the secret antl-chambers or mausard roof Of my heart which I would est divulge tO thee. And she said, while a sigh from her parted lips melted into the twilight, 70, Chawles, how you sgitate me; what can 1t be?" They were her last words. The loving twain were at the mo- ment passing lOwly matched cottage be- hind which ran a wide, turbulent acequia, whose bed was a treacherous quicksand. This cottage was the rendezvous Of d gang oC Norty-ive Of the most notorious hood lum dogs in town. The young man knew Of this fact, but although he had some misgivings on approaching the locality. he trusted to the quiet Of the hour tO se- cure him and his partner from mOlesta- ton. But no, at the moment, the fatal moment referred to above, the dogs, who with unerring instinct had deserted the approaching party, broke for the horses heels with commingled howl Of forty i've dog power. IL was too much and too sudden for equine nerves. His horse start ed to run; her horse pirouetted on his sl- ternate hind feet for moment and then as a dog snapped savagely at one Of his legs, he let down his fore feet and lifted his hind feet with such perpendicular ve- locity that the young lady was shot straight up into the air, over the matched cottage, and coming down was driven head first into the fatal quicksands Of the aeequia. AS the young man saw the di- rection she took, and as she hung motion less for a second over the hidden deep, they both recognized that all was over and waved mutual adieus. No more, alas, no more. Down, down she plunged into the slimy depth and was lost to view forever. They damned the stream above and sunk shafts Co find the young lady, but in vain. | At a great depth they found one striped stocking, which the poor victim had prob ably shed iu passing through. The young man successfully begged the stocking Of the bereaved father as a boon. He took it home and has it yet. Upon it, immedi- atelv after the occurrence, he swOre re l veuge on the cause of all his woe, and in pursuance thereof straightway set to work to train his horse in the cause. He soon taught him SO he could kill dog at one blow Of his good fore foot, but by careful handling he has now got him where he can do finer and really artistic work, such as taking the top Of dogs head of and not interfering with him otherwise We don't approve Of this and we told our friend so, but we started in to narrate the plain facts Of the case and have to tell 1t