Tonto and Silver are only pups, but as sure as slugs have slime they’ll be two boxy bundles of muscles before you know it. That’s how pit bulls are. (Course, fancy folks call my kinda dogs American Pit Bull Terriers, but like I’ve said before, I don’t much care for fanciness.)
Matthias—he’s my friend whose always got his nose in a book—said he read somewhere that pit bulls are kin to English sport dogs, those used to pull down bears and bulls, to hunt wild boar, to guard the cattle, or fight other dogs. I reckon that’s true, ‘cause Fury, the pups’ Pa, is one fast, strong dog.
Matthias said he read that Thomas Edison and Mark Twain both had pit bulls, and even President Teddy Roosevelt! Maybe I’ll gander a picture of those two in a newspaper. Speaking of newspapers, did your Ma or Pa save one of those 1903 newspaper clippings about Jackson and Sewall who traveled across the entire United States from San Francisco to New York City in just 63 days, taking along Bud, a pit bull they found in Idaho? (Bud looked quite handsome in his goggles that matched the fellas, but don’t you tell Sarah I said so.)
Do you have a story about a nice pit bull you know?
Billy
Matthias—he’s my friend whose always got his nose in a book—said he read somewhere that pit bulls are kin to English sport dogs, those used to pull down bears and bulls, to hunt wild boar, to guard the cattle, or fight other dogs. I reckon that’s true, ‘cause Fury, the pups’ Pa, is one fast, strong dog.
Matthias said he read that Thomas Edison and Mark Twain both had pit bulls, and even President Teddy Roosevelt! Maybe I’ll gander a picture of those two in a newspaper. Speaking of newspapers, did your Ma or Pa save one of those 1903 newspaper clippings about Jackson and Sewall who traveled across the entire United States from San Francisco to New York City in just 63 days, taking along Bud, a pit bull they found in Idaho? (Bud looked quite handsome in his goggles that matched the fellas, but don’t you tell Sarah I said so.)
Do you have a story about a nice pit bull you know?
Billy
