Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1874 — A Faithful Dog. [ARTICLE]

A Faithful Dog.

Metcalfs grocery store in our place has been closed for a week or so. Metcalf was perfectly willing to have it open, but circumstances rendered it necessary for him to suspend business for a while. There had been a good many burglaries and Metcalf bought a dog to keep in his store at night. The man that sold the dog said that its one strong peculiarity was vigilance. That dog would watch that store closer than the Genius of Liberty watches the destinies of America. So the man turned the dog loose in the store and Metcalf locked up and went home. When he came down in the morning the dog flew at him as soon as he opened the door and attempted to breakfast on Mr. Metcalf's legs; whereupon Mr. Metcalf suddenly shut the door and sat down to think. Then he went after the man who sold the dog, but he had gone out of town to see his aunt, and wouldn't be back for a month. Metcalf then undertook to coax the dog through the crack of the door, but the animal still manifested a resolute determination to chew Metcalf’s legs, and so Metcalf closed the door again and began to wish he had bought a dog less attentive to business. Then he procured a double-barreled gun and spent the remainder of the week shooting slugs and bullets down the chimney, and through thq doors and windows, and up through the cellar ceiling, and still the dog held out, until finally Metcalf got a section of wire fence, placed it across the doorway, opened the door and banged the obnoxious animal into eternity!" Then he entered and found that he had shot holes through the molasses cans and the coal-oil barrels, and had blown all the china ware to atoms; so that the store looked as if a fifteeninch shell had burst in it. Metcalf cleaned up and resumed; but he is anxiously awaiting that man’s return from his visit to his aunt’s. He wants to see him about something. —Mar Adder, in Danbury News.