DEFIED BY A BULLDOG.

North Otago Times, 5 December 1908, Page 1 (Supplement)

DEFIED BY A BULLDOG.

' A family druggist\in Bristol happened (o look up from his desk; and was astonished to sec tho shattered wreck of a man enter and 'throw himself upon a chair. , The wreck was in ait awful condition, bleeding, liko Colonel Jlarco Bozarris, at every vein.- ■ '

"What /in tlie name of Sir Walter Scott' lias' happened > to you ? " cried the'druggist; "Pour few quarts of arnica On me f " responded the wreck, weakly, "and I'll tell you,"

Thp draggist stitched him up, and soaked him in healing fluids, and listened for the story.: . «

'I live in Clifton Avenue," - said the wreck, "I have lately been reading up on lion-tamers,- and came to the conclusion that the human eye would, subdue any animal that walks, I tried it on all the "animals in the neighbourhood', and it seemed to work all right. For two or three weeks I went around subduing things with my eye. Then I got into an argument with a neighbour on the question. He held that a really fierce animal didn't care a red cent for the human eye. I offered to bet £2 that lie couldn't produce an aninia 1 that I couldn't conquer by looking.at it."

"I can guess the rest," said the diuggist; "he trotted out a big mastiiT with, a mouth ns large as tho Arctic regions, and you tried tq subdue it, and it wouldn't he subdued for anything; and, in the grand symposium that ', followed tho dog tried to make a record at plain and fancy chewing, arid succeeded."

"That sounds reasonable enough," replied the wreck weairil£ "but it wasn't the way it Happened. My ■neighbour 'took me into n strange yard |iy meonltghtr-nnd"'aSkcd"tnc to hypnotize a big brindle bulldog that was sitting on the porch. • Several strangers wero there to see tho experiment, and I went to work. I stared into the orbs of that beast for fifteen minutes,- and it didn't 1 seem to move a muscle;. then, to show that it was thoroughly-subdued I went up and placed my hand on its head. It was a cast-iron bulldog, and was subdued! when cast. While the spectators were laughing I sailed into my neighbour, determined to whip him all round the place, and up and down an alley, and you can sec the result, I wish that you would pour pint of oil ot sassafras down the back of my neck."