Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1882 — A Dog Story. [ARTICLE]

A Dog Story.

A canine tragedy dbcorred on Chestnut street, above Fortieth. A young lady, daintily wrapped in fan, was tripping along toward the park, and at her heels was an exceedingly handsome pug dog, with a snout of exceptional tiptiitednees and a tad of corkscrew perfection. The petted animal was amply protected from the weather by a warm body-ooat of thick cloth, trimmed with blue, while a collar of silver, with jingling bells, adorned bis bull-like neck. A. large dog of the retriever species approached in the opposite direction. He had a particularly blackguard demeanor. His back was coated with mud and his eyes gleamed with general depravity. He looked what he evidently was, a vagabond, ownerless dog in search of a bone, He, however, made friendly overtures to the aristocratic png, which were repulsed with a growl and a disdainful snap. The vagabond lost his temper. He seized the dog by one of his minute ears, and a chorus of barks and growls from the canine and screams from the fair owner filled the air. The vagabond evidently bad fell and sinister intents; he relaxed his hold on the png’s ear and took a firm grip of the png’s tail, and before he could be driven away, by a valiant Praia reporter who came to the rescue of the wniling young lady and her pet, the cannibal canine bit off the curled caudal appendage of bis tiuy victim, and ran at full 6peed with the lopped limb in his month. The unhappy damsel lifted her wounded dumb friend from the ground and hastened toward a neighboring drug store. The reporter, seeing that his services could be of no further avail, got into a street car driving in the direction taken by the villainous retriever, and in a few minutes he drove pnst that disreputable animal crouched in a well-pro-tected coruer, with the remains of the pug’s tail between his paws, upon wliioii he was finishing his New Year’s dinner with evident relish. — Philadelphia Press.