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A Death Struggle

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Parent Issue
Day
20
Month
August
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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Dr. John Kapp had an exciting ime wiili fiis 100-nouml bull-dog, 'lince, last Friday niglit. The dog is i r.-uluT feroeious beast and ís uaurüy kept chained up in the barn, wh „e be doctor kept hin; to seare aw.iy he thieves wlm have been stealing tealing hls oats and harness. The log is a fighter, but has not beeu us-jd ■(ir iliis parpose to the doctor's wnowledge, although he had been taken out and fought geveral times wheu ie did not know it. Frlday aftemoon a l):y who works for Dr. Kapp lel the dog looso to eateh i rat in the streel and did aoi tie liijn '1' again. In the eveuing the doctor vent out to the barn and i'ouinl '1h log standing over the rat and aetingr ery strailgely. The doctor valk-l nro the stall where cue of liis horsss s kept, the dog Collowlng. in acrne way the animal disturbed the liorse. which was lylng down. The horse i ved a little and in an instant the bull-dog fastened his teech in the horse's foreleg. -Then eame such a ftght," gald the doctor, " as I have rarely seen bèfore. The kieking, serêaming horse and the dog made furious by the taste oí blood, plunged a round the stall like wild animáis. The bull-dog was worth throe times as oiuch as the horse, but the latter h'ad earried me many miles duElng tlie years tlrat have gone by ;ni(i. I couhl uoi siand by and see hi-n killed before m.v eyes. 1 went to the house and got my Winchester. On m.v return the dog liad the horse by the neck and 1 saw that I nnist biio h qirlekly. Raislng my rifle, .vid holding the lantern where I eould et the 1 ; ■ t sijdit. n the brute. I !et hei go and the dog dropped, shot tiirough the heait." Huntin.ff in the north wooils has given the doctor a. good eye and a sieady band. It was somethmg of a to piek off the dog hauging so close to the horse's neck in the dark stalile but the bullet went trae to ;ln mark.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Democrat