Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1868-08-19
STORY OF A REMARKABLE DOG

4 gentleman residing in a N arket town
of England had valu BILE Newfohhdiahd
dog which once preserved his life Inc
animal, which was called Rover, having
run thorn into his foot, during the tenn
porary absence of his master from home,
the family had taken no further notice Oh
it than to observe that it was lame. by
the time his master returned the poor
creatures leg, as we'll as foot: were IN
most infamed state, and he could nos
walk. Alarmed at his situation, he took
the dog 10 surgeon, who attended to the
foot and in short time Rover was able
to limp about tolerably we'll His mastery
aware Of his sagacity, turned him out at
the time of the morning when he used to
be carried, and the dog regularly went to
the surgeons, scratched at the door TIL
admitted, and then walked into the doc@
tors office, where his foot was dressed as
usual, until it was perfectly cured.
Notwithstanding this, however, habit
prompted him to continue his visits at the
regular hour, when he used, good hum
oredly, to take the foot in his hand and
say: "WeA, Rover, your foot is well how;
you need not come any more" But, SO
long as some notice was taken of the foot,
Rover thought it was professional service,
and departed we'll satisfied but, not un-
derstanding the words, he continued his
visits for fortnight longer. At length.
one morning. the surgeon was surprised
to find that he did not depart after the
customary handling of the foot, but that be
whined and fgetted, making toward the
door, then returning and staring the doe
tor in the face, and still whining and
wagging his tail, till, finding he was not
understood, he took the doc tors coat
shirt in his teeth, and endeavored to pull
him along. The doctor, concluding
there was some reason for this, followed
him to the door, against which Rover
scratched-opened it, and 10 there stood
another lame dog which Rover had
brought with him, and which the servant
had shut out, not considering him cons
panion of Rover's. The good natured
doctor, from the whimsicality of the thing,
performed what was necessary to his leg,
and Rover and his friend went away, but
returned regularly every day at the same
hour, until the strange dog was cured.
Nor was this the only dog which he had
to cure, Efor every lame or wounded CAM
Inc creature, with which, Rover became
acquainted, he regularly accompanied to
the doctors, who, from humanity as we'll
as the amusement of the thing, cured
them all; until gratitude-yes, that is
the word-attracted them ali to him, SO
that whenever any of them saw Linn they
were sure to follow him, sometimes three,
and even six together Now, as dogs
generally run to the places where they see
a number of their own species, strange
dogs joined them, until at last the doctor
became SO we'll known to all the canine
race in the town that the moment he
showed his face outside his door his re-
tinue began to attend him, increasing as
he went along until sometimes he had
two or three dozen followers, so that, in
the end, it became a nuisance, rendering
him an object of observation and laughter,
and he went by the name of the "Dog
Star" But his humanity, as all good
deeds do, brought its reward he was the
theme of conversation, his business in-
creased, and DR.. Dog Star, rose in his
profession.