People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1893 — A WICKED DOG. [ARTICLE]

A WICKED DOG.

It Would Not Acknowledge Its Maxtor When Sober. An enemy to the cause of teetotalism has arisen in Ohio in the shape of a dog. For years, according to the Buffalo Express, Henry Taylor, a farmer, has lived on a farm just north of the village of Van Wert. Henry was a good and upright citizen, but he would get boiling drunk whenever he went to town. He has a dog, and this dog, with the members of his household, always expected him to come home with a pronounced load. The dog met him at the gate and guided his uncertain footsteps to the house after each trip to town. One day Henry went to town, and while there experienced a change of heart. He decided not to get drunk, took the pledge and started for home in a state of painful sobriety. His dog was at the gate to meet him. Henry walked in straight as a string. Tne dog, expecting a man with a wobbly gait and a thick voice, did not recognize him and jumped upon him, biting him severely several times and otherwise maltreating him after the manner of dogs. Thereupon Henry swore an oath that he would never again return from town without a load, and he has kept the vow. It i 3 clearly the duty of Murphy or Col. Bain to bring that dog into the fold.