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Show Dog Was Not Impressed "Nearly all my life I hnvo heard If )ou would look n dog In the c)0 when he Ktnr'ta nflcr )ou It would Intimidate In-timidate him nnd quiet hi rlilng lorn-'per," lorn-'per," aald n man who takoa an interval in-terval In pet thcorlea and old d renin a, nccordlng to the, New- Orleana Time-Democrat, Time-Democrat, "but I do not take much Mock In Ihn Idea, The fact la that nil thin talk about cowing any kind of nil animal b) looking hi in squarely In the. o)o li nil 'blarnc)' nnd hodgepodge. "I hnvo trleil It on the dog. I never met n lion on nn) thing like equal and unreatrnlncd tcrma. and consequently I linve nocr had n chance to look a linn squarely In the e)c when ho waa nppriMrhlrg me In n ihrentcnlng manner. man-ner. To be icrfrcll) frank about it, after in) exicrlenco wllh tho dog, I would rcl) more on ni leg nnd lea on my c)ea, If I ahould meet a lion under condlllona at nil threaleniiig "Somo ) ear a ago n friend of tnlno In Arkanaaa owneil n cry lcloua dog, nnd It fell to my lot one nflcrnoon to try Ihe theory of looking tho told do? squarely In tho eye In order to Intimidate Intimi-date him. I went about tho thing In deliberate fnahlon I locked my teeth, knit in) brow a and trained in) light on tho dog when he en hie bounding nnd barking Inward inc. "II wn all no quick lbit really up In this good day I cannot Way whether I looked Ihat dog squarely In Ihe c)e. About tho only thing I remember clearly li n yellow atrenk which seemed to bo coming my way. That dog landed rqnarely on my parapet, tunneled under my counterscarp, bombarded bom-barded my brlakct. executing a few Jlit -Jit atti atunta while promenading on my neck, nnd cut other caper which complete!) bewildered me. If that dog had any o)e concealed about hla lierann I never found them, and If my own o)oa were of nny particular ser-Ieo ser-Ieo lo me 1 never found It out. "Since that experience I hate hnd llltle reaped for nnd no confidence In the Iheor) of checking and cowing n vicious dog by looking him In tho e)o. Othcra inny reaort to thla method If they please, but aa for me, my lega nnd a hickory slick aro tho only weapon t shall rely upon when tho bad dog slarts In ray direction." |