Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1894 — Defense of the Mongrel. [ARTICLE]

Defense of the Mongrel.

The cur has never been in fashion, but ho, nevertheless, like any other low-born creature, sometimes geta into the best society. There are curs and curs. The plantation “coon dog,” the mongrel hound that is really afraid of a good-sized possum, and the country sportsman’s “bird dog,” a cross-bred setter thafc points meadow larks and walks over coveys of quail, are not of much use in the world. But the goad cur, the good-natured, ugly old nondescript, that wins his way to your esteem in spite of his plebeian origin and simply through his good qualities is not to be despised. A great lover of dogs and one who has lived among them all his life was heard to make the confession the other day that in all his experience with dogs the noblest one he had ever known was a mongrel car.—[New York Journal. j Pennsylvania is more closely grid ironed with railroad tracks than GsrmanrFranoe or Holland. '!"•? •:* ' <■s ■: .‘Hsr - V- •’