The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-02-25
Some Good Dog Stories.


kindly cared for by many who pitied him.
At length one day, dragging his mu-
tilated legs behind him, Indifferent to
suffering, he sought the nearest pond
and deliberately went into deep water
until the water engulfed him. Unable
to endure his misery, the poor brute had
deliberately committed suicide.
A r, triever dog, whose owner was
working in the garden of the Bath in
stitution, lately killed favorite cat, a
frequenter of the same grounds. Hav-
ing committed this unprovoked murder,
the dog deliberately took the cat in his
mouth, carried it some distance, dug a
deep hole behind some bushes, and at
ter depositing the cat therein carefully
replaced the earth, and had he not been
observed there would have been no evi-
dence of the crime.
Philip Gilbert Hamerton never told a
more beautiful story than the following:
"a dog was bereaved of his master and
became old and blind, passing the dark
evenings of his existence sadly in some
corner, which he hardly ever quilted.
One day came a step like that OF his
lost master and he suddenly left his
place. The man who had just entered
wore ribbed stockings; the old dog had
lost his scent and referred at once to the
stockings that he remembered rubbing
his face against. Believing his master
had returned after those weary years OF
absence he gave way to the most ex-
travagant delight. The man spoke. The
momentary illusion was dispelled; the
dog went sadly back to his place, lay
down wearily and died."
A Radnorshire lady, who was mar
ried in March, and came to reside in
Yorkshire, England, recently paid WIS.,
it to her father, who, before she was
married, had kept two or three sheep
dogs, of which she was very fond.
Since then he has retired from business
and disposed of all but one dog. This
one met the lady with demonstrations
of great delig hit upon her arrival at her
fathers house, and that night the dog
went distance of seven miles to a farm
house, where one of the other dogs had
been sent (the latter was blind, but kept
as being an old favorite). In the MORN
ing when the lady went to the door she
not only saw the dog which had given
her such glad reception the day previ-
ously, but also the old blind one, which
had evidently been brought by the 9th
er dog to welcome her. When the sec
ond night came the old blind one was
taken back to its home by the same dog,
which afterward returned, having trav-
eled distance of twenty-eight miles to
give pleasure to the old blind one.
If being in possession OF the ''signs' >
known only to the Brotherhood of Good
Templars, and observing the essential
qualification of total abstention from all
Intoxicating liquors constitute 'broth-
err Mr.. J. Leake's Newfoundland
(assuming of course that he does not in
: dulge in other than the usual canine
! beverages), according to the Newcastle
!, Dasly Journal, would seem to have a
right to the full benefits of membership
of that brotherhood. This dog, it is
stated by the above journal, having fo1
some time past attended with his mas
ter at the g Pride of the Tyne" Lodge
, of Good Templars, at Haltwhistle, ap'
, pears to have found out their mysterious
rap for entering the lodge-room during
their meetings. On the last lodge night
, he seems to have fingered by the way.
r out him and closed the door. "a short
+. time after the inner guard and part Of
3 the members heard the well known
r knock at the inner door, when the guart
. arose and opened it, and the black
brute walked majestically in, greatly tt
D the surprise of the vigilant guard, caus
: ing no small amusement to the whole
company
Who carries the mail from Os-tra
gou-nosh, away up on the Minnesots
line to the nearest frontier settlement II
Dakota? Why, Boss, a mongrel kint
of dog, an apparent ultimate result o
!; the mingling of every kind of dog fount
in the Territory. Boss master yea
ago was drunken half-breed who wa
: paid 50 trip in summer and S5 in win
!, ter for taking the mails distance o
: some sixty miles. Boss master wa
= J honest, and never purloined letter
!, but he had way drinking on the road
: and the mails were often deferred. Las
I January the mail-carrier never reache
his destination, but was found froze
! stiff in a snow-bank, three miles beyon
: Jobley's Run. Boss was keeping guar
: over his master and the mail. Nov
J Boss runs the machine in bad weather
J All that has to be done is to take Bos
and secure the letters round his neck i
= an oilskin wrap, and away goes Boss
the end of the mail route on the bigge;
= Z kind of lope. There is no use OF star1
e e ing Boss, like people do pigeons, to g
= y him to work, though he does expect
! ! feed at the conclusion of his journe,
u No one as yet is intriguing for Bos
= Mace Sixtv-two miles as the crow file