Scaring A Dog

Bill Jones, of Happy Valley, carne into the office the other day and said he liad found out a good way to scare a dog, says the Fairhaven News. He said he didn't see any sense.in wanting to shoot a dog or be cruel to dumb brutes by poisoning 'em when there were ways enough to just scare 'em and in that keep 'em from bitin' j'ou. He said, just to show his good faith before we printed the recipe in the News, we might go down street past Oldfeller's place and try his dog once. So we started out with him. Jones took his umbrella and as we walked along he showed us how the oíd thing worked. He asked us to walk just ahead and he played we were in the position of the dog and wanted us to growl. When we made a noise he rushed at us with the umbrella, opening and shutting it in rather a startling manner. By and by we reached Oldfeller's place, but didn't see the dog. Then Jones growled like and shouted, "Sic 'em. Towser!" In about a second and a half Towser carne flying around the fence corner and Jones Just had time to lower hls umbrella when the charge was made. Towser made a rush like a trolley car a half block ahead of you. Jones parried and worked the slide on the umbrella handle. The next instant the dog had a mouthful of a four-dollar umbrella cover and two ribs out of the same. Jones expectorated a mouthful of tobacco juice in Towser's eye and then told him he could have the remainder of the water cover, his remarks all prefaced with adjectives never used in prayers. We didn't return to the office together and Jones said if we ever printed the recipe or made any metion of the experiment the A. O. U. W.'s would lose a couple of thusand on us and have a day off for a funeral.