Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-05-16
A Dog Story.

You will always derive satisfaction
and pleasure by helping, or speaking a
kind wind word to, those in want or
distress. Even those creatures who
can not speak for themselves often
find some way to show this gratitude
for kind act.
This recalls to memory pleasing
circumstance that happened in my
youth. There moved into our neigh
borhood farmer named Bradford,
and he often told his new acquaint-
ances Of good dog he had left at his
old home in Ohio. MIR. Bradford said
when he found the strange and home
ly-looking dog lying upon his doorstep
one chilly morning. his first impulse
was to kick the creature, but it looked
up so pitiful, and seemed to say, Give
me food and shelter, and | will repay
you with fidelity. Mr.. Bradford said
he cared for the ill-looking animal, but
1t found no other friends until few
weeks after. One night he was awak-
ened by hearing the dog whining and
scratching the door. and when he
opened the door the dog started to-
ward the barn. Looking that way
Mr.. Bradford was astonished to see
light in the stable where he kept the
horses. Hurriedly dressing himself
and going to the barn, he found some
one had harnessed up two horses evil
IDENTIFY to steal them, but had been
frightened away by the noise. Mr..
Bradford said the homely dog did not
lack friends after that, and he had
often regretted that he did not bring
the dog with him to Wisconsin.
Now comes the strange part of this
story. About one year after Mr.. Brad
ford had lived in his new home he was
awakened one night by hearing q loud
whining and scratching on the outside
of his door, and he imagined for the
moment he was back again in his old
home in Ohio. But what was his as
tonishment and pleasure, when he
opened the door. to see the dog he dad
left in Ohio jump in joy to find his old
master. The strange circumstance
created some excitement among the
neighbors until Mr.. Bradford wrote to
his friends in Ohio; he then learned
that the people who had purchased his
old homestead had also sold out and
moved to Fond du Lac, eighty miles
from where he lived, and had taken
the DOG with them.
In those days, before railroads were
built, people travelled by boats or
wagons, and men often walked fifteen
or twenty miles to transact business.
Those people, on their way from
Ohio to Fond du Lac, Wis, had
landed at Sheboygan, sixteen miles
from where we lived, and Mr.. Brad
ford, in comparing dates, remembered
he had walked to Sheboygan the same
day and completed his business, and
started for home only three or four
hours before the boat landed. The
dog upon coming ashore had scented
his old masters tracks in the streets
and followed them sixteen miles
through q strange country, to be re-
warded for his sagacity and faithful
ness by finding his friends again.
So you see what good and happy re-
suits kind act can bring forth. even IL
1t is bestowed upon a dumb brute.
People who are unkind or inhumane to
either man or beast are in most cases
punished some way or other. You all
remember the poor bear who was made
to dance all day long out in the hot
sun on our dusty streets, and how he
turned upon his inhumane keeper one
evening and tore him to pieces. And
also the mule who kicked and broke
the drivers arm because the driver
was whipping him for not pulling a
very heavy load.-A. b. Jet0ett, in Chi
cdg0 Journal