HUMOUROUS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3942, 8 March 1884, Page 6 (Supplement)

HUMOUROUS.

JIMMY BROWN'S NEW DOG. I've had another dog. That makes three dogs that I've had, and I haven't been allowed to keep any of them. Grown-up folks don't seem to care how much a boy wants society. Perhaps if they were better acquainted with dogs they'd understand boys better than they do. About a month ago there were lots of burglars in our town, and father said he believed he'd have to get a dog. Mr Withers told father hod got a dog for him, and the •nexl day he brought tho most beautiful Siberian bloodhound you ever saw. The first night wo had him chained up in the yard, and the neighbours throw things at him all night. Nobody in our house had a wink of sleep for the dog never stopped barking, except just long enough to yell wnen something hit him. There was mor'na scuttleful of lumps of coal in the yard in the morning, besides seven old boots, two chunks of wood, and a bushel of broken crockery. Father said that tho house was the proper place for the dog at night •' so the next night we left him in the front hall. Ho didn't bark any «11 night, but he 'got tired of staying in the front hall and wandered all over tho hovse. I suppose he felfc lonesome, for he camo into my room, and got on the bed and nearly suffocated me. I woke up dreaming that I was in a mpllon patch, and I had to eat threo hundred green water-melons or be sent to gaol, and it was a gfeat comfort when I woke up and found it was only the dog. • He knocked the water pitcher over, with his tail .hi the morning, and then thought he saw a cat under my bed, and made such an awful noise that father came up and told mo I. ought to bo ashamed to ;disturb the wholo family so early- in the morning. After that the clog was lockod up in tho kitchen at night, and father had to come down early and let- him out because the cook didn't daro to go into tho kitchen. •;■ >.[<:-' i '■■■'■:■ ■. ■. '■■d'u ; ■ Wo let him.run loose in the yard in.the, daytime, until he had an accident with, Mr ■Martin..' We,d,all beetl out to take tea andspend the evening.with;theAVilkinsons, and when we got home about .4 o'clock, there was Mr Martin standing, upon the..piazza,; with tho dpgholding on to his cork: leg. Mr Martin had .come.to tho .hotiso to make ' a call at about 7 o'clock, and as soon us. ho stopped, on the piazza the dog caught him by the leg without saying a. word.; Every, once in a while the dog would ,-lcfc, go just long enough to spit put a few pieces of cork and .take a fresh hold, but Mr Martin didn't daro to stir for fear ho would t/xke hold of tho other log, whsphy ; of> course, Would have hurt-more than.. the, :cqrk one;, Mr Martin was a good deal tired and dis-

couvoged, and couldn't bo made to understand that the dog thought he was a burglar and tried to do his duty, 33 wo should all try to do. . The way I came to.lose the dog was this— Aunt Eliza came to see us last week and brought her little boy Harry with her. Harry is six years old, and he isn't sobad as might bo, Considering his age. The second day after they camo Harry and I were in Tom M'Ginnis' yard, when Tom said he knew where there was awoodchuck downinthc pastui - e,aiid suppose we go and hunt him. So I told Harry to go home and get the dog and bring him down to the pasture where Tom said the woodchuck livod. I told bira to untie the dog—for we had kept him tied up since his accident with Mr Martin—and to keep tight hold of the rope, so that the dog couldn't get away from him. Harry said hod tie the rope round his waist, and then tho dog couldn't possibly pull itaway from him, and Tom and I both said it was a good plan. Well, we waited for that boy and the dog till : G o'clock, and they nover came. When I got homo everybody wanted to know what had become of Harry. He was gone and the dog was gone, and nobody knew where they were; and aunt Eliza was crying, and said she knew that horrid dog had eaten her boy up. Father and I and Mr Travers had to go and hunt for Harry. Wo hunted all over tho town, and at last a man told us that he had seen a a dog going on a run across Deacon Smith's corn field. So we went through the corn field and found; their track, for they had broken down tho corn just as if a waggon bad driven through it. When we came to the fence on tho other side of the field we found Harry on one side of the fence nnd the clog on the other. Harry tied the dog's rope round his waist, and couldn't untie it again, and the dog had run away with him. When they came to the fenco the dog had squeezed through a bole that was too small for Harry, and wouldn't come back again. So they were both caught in a trap. How the dog did pull! Harry was almost cut in two, for the dog kept pulling at the rope all the time with all his might. When we got home Aunt Eliza said that either she or that brute must leave, and father gave the dog away to tho butcher. He was tho most elegant dog I ever had, and I don't suppose! shall ever have another. —Harper s Young People.