Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1884 — An Astonishing Story. [ARTICLE]

An Astonishing Story.

A dog belonging to the B—s, which was a great favorite of theirs, and regarded as of thoroughly irreproachable training, was charged by some of their neighbors with worrying sheep at night. The family rebutted this charge, on the ground that the dog was fastened up in* their kitchen at night, and was never let out until the servants came down in the morning. The farmers, however, persisted that they knew the dog well, and had seen him going from the sheepfold, though he had managed to escape them. When this was urged so strongly as to make it imperative on the B—s to take some further steps, one of the daughters volunteered to sleep in the kitchen and watch the dog’s behavior. When they made up the young lady’s bed the dog seemed very restless and stragge, but by and by he settled down and all was silent. A little after midnight he got up, came to the bed, and sniffed about until he was satisfied himself the lady was not awake. Then he the window seat, lifted the catajf of the abutters, and opened them.jragaflgifffij undid the kteh of the he opened, tM^isanoeared. g -interval le; came back, closed and ffftH shutters, and 'flnishM by licking his own feet and the marks which he had left by springing on the fk or. To the terror of the seefniog sleeper, he row came and closely scrutinized her; but she kept still, and he at last crept off to his own bed/ As soon as she heard the servants

stirring the lady rose softly and slipped through the door. But the guilty dog had marked her. He sprang up and made a dash at her with most undisguised fury, for he saw that his secret was discovered and his character blasted by one whom he now regarded as a hateful spy. Fortunately, she got the door fast just in time, and at once alarmed the house. But the dog was now so furious that no one dared go into the kitchen, and at last a gun was brought, pointed through an aperture, and he was shot dead. —Petland Revisited .