Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1883 — Boasted Dog. [ARTICLE]

Boasted Dog.

An ex-soldier, who was captured during the late war by the Confederates, relates the following incident of prison life on Belle Isle: One afternoon in December, as some eight or ten of us were sitting on the ground within our tent, in gloomy silence, a pretty, little fat dog of the terrier species came into the tent. We knew sjbhe dog belonged to the Lieutenant commanding the prison, and was highly prized by the owner. Being a great friend of dogSf I, without a thought oi harm or wrong, called the dog to me. While holding him by the gold band his neck, my ears caught the words, “Kill him; let us eat him.” A glance at the cadaverous faces of my companions convinced me that doggy’a doom was sealed. Gladly would I have spared him, but, knowing that he would never get out of the tent alive or unhurt,' also being fully aware that il the dog was hurt and yellfed all in the tept would suffer even to death, my resolve was quickly taken, and instantly my long, bony, skeleton fingers clasped his throat, and the struggle soon ended in death to the dog. With the aid of an old jack-knife he w*s quickly skinned and dressed, the hide and gold band buried, a little fire kindled inside the tent and the meat roasted and eaten.