Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1881 — Ornamenting a Dog. [ARTICLE]

Ornamenting a Dog.

Once a man had a dog which dident have no tail, the dog dident, cos it was cut off wen it was Itttle, but Franky, tliats the baby, he is little, too, yes indeed, like puppies. So the mans dog grode up without no tail for to waggle, ’ but one night sum notty boys they got a > peece of old rope out of a ship yard, and sum pitch, and fastened the rope onto the end of the dogs back with the pitch like it grode there. Then that dog was prowd like he was a new dog on a old tail, an he went swellin around a mung the other dogs, a tryin for to waggle it til he most broke his back. But he cudent lift it of the ground, and after' a wile it was drug acros a cigar wich a. feller had threw away, an it got a lite, the tail did, and had a smoke its own self. Then tbe dog it lied down like it was a goin to sleep, and it said to the other dogs: “There wasent never any pup wich cude be so cool and callum like me wile his tail was a house afire. I ot to be hired out to teech fortitude to Cristion marters. Just wake me up wen its ol hurt of, cos I have got a important engagement.” But when it was ol of, and the fire was got hold of the cake of pitch onto the end of his back, he dident have to be woke up, cos he woke the hwole town up hisself.— Little Johnny.