A PLEASANT NIGHT.

Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1199, 4 August 1874, Page 3

A PLEASANT NIGHT.

One night last winter young Mullen, of New Castle, who feared that the lady he loved was entertaining another admirer, determined to climb a tree in the yard, from which he could see into the sitting-room in the second-storey, where the young woman was supposed to be. Just as lie got himself fixed in a comfortable position commanding the Window, some one upon the inside pulled the curtain down. Then Mullen made up his mind to descend. It was very dark, and just as he began to slide down the Irunk Mullen heard a dog barking furiously beneath, and looking down he saw a large animal capering about apparently very eager to nip Mr Mullen's legs. Then Mullen suddenly climbed up the tree again, and endeavored to drive the dog oil", but the more he spoke to the brute the more it darted around and barked, Then

Mullen came clown as low as ho dared, and tried to coax the animal, but this made him hop about and howl more furiously than ever. So it became apparent that Mullen would have to spend the night in the tree. lie fixed himself as comfortably as he could in a crotch of the limbs, and kicked his legs and moved his arms to keep himself from freezing to death. Several times when he thought the dog was asleep he attempted to descend, but each time the brute began to caper about. By the time daylight arrived Mullen was so benumbed with cold that ho could hardly use his hands ; but, as the sky grew brighter, he leaned over to examine his persecutor, and to Lis amazement he found that it was his own dog, which, unknown to him, had followed him to the tree and had barked and capered only to express its delight at the prospect of Mullen's coming down and going home. The suddenness with which Mullen reached the ground is said to have been remarkable, and the language used by him bad. Pie has some of the rheumatism which he got on that night in his bones yet.

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