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"Miller, will you take a shot for the first prize, which I was about to award to Jonathan?" said Col. Zane. "No. I am a little late, and not entitled to a shot. I will take a try for the others," answered Miller. At the arrival of Miller on the scene Wetzel had changed his position to one nearer the crowd. The dog, Tige, trotted closely at his heels.
"O, he did n't mean so," replied Oscar; "he was mad when he said that, but he 's got over it now. Besides, I don't let Tige stay in the house much." "A good dale ye cares for what yer father says," remarked Bridget, who was never backward about putting in a word, when Oscar's delinquencies were the subject of conversation. "You shut up, Bridget, nobody spoke to you," replied Oscar.
Tige obeying sullenly, to the extent that he crouched where he was and still growled; his master rested his elbows on his great, bony knees, sucked at a short-stemmed clay pipe and waited developments. "How d'yuh do?" Dade, holding Surry as close to the belligerent Tige as was wise, tried to make his greeting as neutral as the attitude of the other. "Tol'ble, thank yuh, how's y'self?
Tige leaped the wall, and came back to the gate, barking and yelping for the men to come and shut the steer in. They shut the gate and petted Tige, and bought him a collar with a silver plate." The boy was loudly cheered, and went to his seat. The president said he would like to have remarks made about these two stories. Several children put up their hands, and he asked each one to speak in turn.
They were three white-faced young men who stood there, abashed before the tragedy they had uncovered. After a little, they filled the grave again and stood back, trying to think the thing out and to think it out calmly. They drew away from the spot, Dade leading. "We don't need to open the other one," he said. "That holds Tige, of course. I wonder "
SO boy! sick him, Tige!" and away the sow would go, squealing most horrible, with a dog or two swinging to each ear, and three or four dozen more a-coming; and then you would see all the loafers get up and watch the thing out of sight, and laugh at the fun and look grateful for the noise. Then they'd settle back again till there was a dog fight.
"Excuse me while I climb a tree," he exclaimed, with a comical intonation. "There comes Lion and Tige, and I 'm afraid it's another horrible case of 'They're After Me." "Oh, they won't touch you while you 're with us," laughed Sadie. "Here Lion, here Tige, good dogs."
"Curse you, I'll knife you for this!" grated the baffled villain. The next instant a keen blade gleamed in the air, just as a voice called: "Tige, come off." The dog was used to obeying his master's voice, and so he released his hold just in time to avoid the knife of the maddened Barkswell. "Here, Tige." The dog came bounding up the bank.
The youthful Filgee, taking advantage of it, opened in a higher key, "Tige ith" but the master's attention was here diverted by the searching eyes of Octavia Dean, a girl of eleven, who after the fashion of her sex preferred a personal recognition of her presence before she spoke.
A M. Tamisier did something toward removing the former difficulty by cutting very shallow grooves on the ball itself. The other called forth the ingenuity of the now famous Minié, who made his first appearance in 1847-1848, and whose name has attained the same kind of lethal immortality with the names of Shrapnell, Congreve and Rodman. M. Minié abandoned the tige entirely.
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