Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

Extraordinary Effects of Whiskey upon a Dog.
An unfortunate dog, while prowling around the market square lately, took it in his noddle to put out of sight one of those beef boluses, a few of which were carefully thrown around for the especial benefit of the canine fraternity-those without muzzles. The incautious individual had only gulped the tempting piece of meat down a few minutes before the strychnine began to work. A crowd soon gathered round to watch the dying throes of the animal, feeling that his end was near. One man in the crowd, however, thought different. Dr. Bullock, a gentleman who has given “the dog” his most carful study, made his way forward, and ordered a pint of whiskey to be brought at once. Ginger-this, we believe, is the name the animal goes by, and is also the property of Mr. George Gordon, commission merchant-was compelled to open his mouth, and down went the tangle-leg.-it had barely reached its terminus before Ginger began to show signs of renewed animation; this was the signal for another dose, and down went another pint of the same stuff. The repeater had the desired effect, for in a second afterwards the dog gave a bark, got on his legs, made a bolt through the crowd, many of whom considered him insane, and off he galloped, to the astonishment of everyone, the owner not excepted, who tried all in his power to call him back, but no go. In a few minutes afterwards Ginger was found quietly reposing at his master’s door, but how he had found his way there nobody knows, as he must have been laboring under the effects of intoxication. To make the matter doubly sure, a third pint of whiskey, and this, too, his dogship was compelled to swallow; he was then carefully put to bed, and to-day he is as well as ever he was. Who will say that whiskey may not be devoted to a useful purpose after this? What will even Dunkin say? The same effect would, we presume, be produced on the human system in a similar case,-London,(C. W.) Prototype.