Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1879 — Played a Joke. [ARTICLE]

Played a Joke.

Rockland Courier. When a Rockland man went homei the other evening, he saw his dog lying just inside the gate, and thinking to play a joke on the animal, he stole softly near, and with a loud whoop jumped in front of the dog’s head. The dog didn’t skurry away, yelping with affright. He had been raised another way, He merely stood up on his hind end and simply put his "teeth into the nearest part of the man that he could reach, and shut his eye*, sighed gently and hung on. The startled man, with a vivid impression that he had inad verdently sat down on a red-hot paper of very large Government tax. emitted a yell like a fog-horn, and dashed through the gate and down the street, with the heroic dog clinging to him like » curse. When the procession passed the corner there seemed to be something waving from it behind, and as he got under the.'gaslight, a policeman observed that there was a black-and-tan train attached to it reaching nearly a block. When the crowd finally caught up, after hard rutfning, ? they discovered a very much exhausted and profene man, leaning up against a tree and holding on to himself with his hands, while near by was a dog with a quiet smile on his countehanoe, busily engaged in pulling shreds of broadcloth out oihis teeth with his claws,