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dogs, and behaved in such a dignified way until he was 

 attacked, that they as a rule .left him alone and went away. 

 When a number of big dogs rushed out at him from a house 

 we happened to be passing, he would sit down in the middle 

 of the road and look straight before him, allowing them tp 

 come up all round him, and never moving, and their pace 

 would usually get perceptibly slower as they got near him, 

 and they were very often satisfied with a look at about 

 three feet distance ; but if they touched him there was a 

 sudden transformation scene : the nearest dog was seized 

 and shaken like a rat, no regard being paid to the others, 

 who were probably biting him behind meanwhile ; then 

 another was treated in the same way, and then another, when 

 they generally turned tail and fled. However much he was 

 hurt himself he never uttered a sound or seemed to care 

 anything about it. Booze was a splendid dog for hogs, 

 holding the largest with ease, and by keeping always close 

 alongside the hog he avoided his tusks. It was so much 

 trouble to get him off when he once had hold, that we used to 

 beat him when he went after hogs, on which he became so 

 crafty that he would drive one into a stream or pond, where 

 we could not follow him, and there he would hold the hog's 

 head under water until he had drowned him. He would throw 

 the largest bull in a moment, catching him by the nose, and 



an Irish water-spaniel, which F had brought from England, 



used to assist him by holding on to the tail, and this he would 

 do so firmly, that I have seen him dragged fifty or sixty yards 

 over the prairie before he would let go his hold. 



While at Clear Creek we had an invitation from a Captain 

 Duncan, who lived on Caney Creek, which runs into the 



