Morris tribune., 1881-01-06
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A WONDERFUL DOG,
The Remarkable Services for Which he was
Pensioned by the Legislature Of Nevada.

The Remarkable Services for Which he was
Pensioned by the Legislature Of Nevada.
La the Territory of New Mexico the Leg
islature by joint action recently pensioned
a dog for noble services. In that country
there are many sheep farms, and shepherd
dogs are SO well trained in caring for the
focks of their masters that it is the daily
practice to take out the flock in the morn
ing to pasture, guard them all day, and at
night return them to the fold, or corral.
This work of the Mexican dogs is SO COM
mon and SO faithfully performed that it is
looked upon as a matter of course, and
nothing more than should be expected from
a well trained dog This being the case, it
would appearthat the dog worthy ofpension
in that Territory must have performed some
very marvellous feat, indeed, and some
thing out of the common line of canine
achievement. And he did. He did not
save his mistress life from the murderous
fury of the savage, nor her child from be-
ing Drained against a doOr-post or being
choked by a huge blacksnake, for his mas
ter was not married and had no wife or babe,
but lived solitary life in his solitary ranch
in very solitary part of New Mexico.
1t CHANGED that the dog in question, on
returning of an evening with his sheep to
to the fold, discovered that his master was
not stirring about, but remained inside the
shanty and kept very quiet. The next eve
ming it was the same. The dog, when he
penned up the sheep, repaired to the shanty,
smelled through crack in the door his
masters presence, but the man was still
quiet and did not breathe. The dog scratch
ed, barked and even howled, but no response
came from within. The door remained
closed: no smoke rose from the chimney to
greet the the early morn. But the dog, true
to his appointed duty, went out with the
sheep on the third day, and cared for them
while they cropped the herbage on the hill
side. But he was getting hungry, and that
night, when he drove the flock into the pen,
the last one to attempt to 60 in became the
victim to his appetite. This method of pro-
yiding for his own wants became portion
of the dogs daily duty. Every evening the
last sheep to try to enter the fold was seiZ-
ed by him and served for supper and for
breakfast and dinner the following day. AS
stated before, the ranch to which the dog
belonged was in solitary part of the Ter
ritory, and out of the track of travel
and social intercourse or visitation.
For two years from the time of the mas
ter's death-as ascertained by data left by
the latter-the faithful dog tended the flock
committed to his charge, and had fresh
mutton for supper every night. The flock
was not decimated by this draft upon its
resources. On the contrary, it increased
in numbers, and when, at the end of two
years, from the time of the death of the
proprietor, the ranch was visited and the
remains of the poor fellow was found, the
dog was still on duty, jealousy guarding
his flock, and driving them to the best
pastures every day, and to the fold at night,
! before which he slept, to keep the wild
sheep eaters of the plains at civil distance.
Such fidelity excited admiration wherever
the story was told, and the American legis-
lators of the Territory, in fit of generosity
and enthusiasm of their session two years
ago (they have biennial sessions in that hap
Ply country, granted a pension for life to
that dog, to be paid from the State treasury,
as reward for his fidelity, and no doubt as
an encouragement to all other shepherd
dogs in that Territory to be good dogs and
faithful