Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1875 — To Oblige a Friend. [ARTICLE]

To Oblige a Friend.

, Mr. Keyser dropped in at Statesbury’s store the other day, and after some preliminary conversation he said: “Jim, are you fond of apples?” “ Well, yes, if they are good,” respond Statesbury. “ Well, Jim, how are you on chmbingafence, a fence about eight feet high? How are you on climbing it all of a sudden ?” “ I dunno. I might get over one if I was excited about something.” “ Yes. And, Jim, you ain’t much afraid of dogs, are you? You don’t skeer much when you see a dog kinder comingat you, savage like? How would it strike you now if such a dog as that was to grab you by the leg?” “ Why, I wouldn’t let it, of course.” “ Well, Jim, I come around to ask you a favor, as a friend. J iin, I've just bought _a new dog,, a. sorter .bull-terrier, and the man said lhat he'd fly at almost anybody, and hold <>n until he was dead. Now, I have an idea the feller was lying to me, and I thought maybe if youd come around and help me give that flog—well, give him a kinder trial trip, I might find out about him. - “ What do you mean by a trial .trip ?” “ Why, I thought I’d see if you wouldn’t go into mj‘ garden and pretend to steal apples, and I d sick this dog on you, and then we’d see if that man misrepresented the facts to me.” “ Certainly I won’t.” “ Oh, come on, now—just to try him! You may have all tlie apples you can carry off with you.” “ Why, you must be crazy.” “ Won't go? Not to oblige a friend? Not to ascertain the value ot what may be a splendid fighting dog?” “ Of course I won’t.”. “ Oh, very well, then, don’t; but the first time 1 see you anywhere near my place I’ll try him on you anyway, I don tmind a man being disobliging, but when he’s ornary mean the way you are, he disgusts me.” Mr. Keyser is still looking for a person for his pet to experiment on.— Max Adder, in N. Y. Weekly.