Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-11-26
GOOD DOG STORIES.
callino Wisdom, Eeroisan, Laziness
 and Other Qualities.
Remarkable Intelligence Displayed by SD Illinois Dog-li phiisdelphia Pet's Presence of I.ind-Lfow Red
 Setter Killed. a Hawk.

A dog at Greenwood Lake is twenty one years old and has killed in his life over sixty rattlcsnallcs. He has been bitten by them four times and still lives.
 A very lazy dog lives at Oakland, Cal. He likes to lie all day in the shade of a small tree in his masters yard. He has a sack which he always carries to the spot to rest upon. As the shade shifts it's position he picks up the sack and carries i t without the reach of the suns rays.
 It was a wise and humane dog that saved two mems lives in Illinois recent ly. He aroused his master. and after persistent efforts got him to follow to l the railroad track. where he found two 1 men lying across the main track under | their cart and horse. which had been overturned. Their lives were finally saved by stopping the train.
 A very smart dog lives in Bowling | Green. ky. The other morning a horse was left standing hitched to 8 buggy, and while it's owner was in the dis tillery the animal took fright and ran away. He was going at breal>neck speed. when the dog saw him, jumped the fence, headed the horse, grabbed the line in his mouth, and held him ! tight and fast until the owner of the mare came up and relieved him. A Philadelphia dog wears a costly col lar as a reminder of his presence of mind. Mrs Green put her little son to bed carly one night. Two hours later she heard the subdued growing of her dog coming from the hallway. Rushing to ..l,. l,,1J holsS. About the center of the long flight of stairs leading from the sleep ing apartment wa.; the boy crying as if his hear" was breaking. He was hang ing over the steps in q pcrilous position. with his head downward. and the dog prevented him falling further by clutching his littlo dress between it's teeth. The dog was growing at rapid rate. aS if to attact attention, and seemed to fully realize the dangerous, situation. The child had jumped oltt of bed and was going down-Stairs hcadlong when the dog rushed to his rescue and saved him by catching hold of his dress. As soon ns the rescue was made the dog kissed his face and showed unbounded joy.
 i gang Of men were at work near
 
 moving debris. Soon they came upon q pile of logs in tn" shape of a cone at least dozen feet high. The lovs were in such a'symmotrical shape that il , looked as though they were put togct her by human hands. The cone was hollow, and as the men proceeded with their work they detected a smell which sug- gcStcd that there was a dead animal I 1,cr moved. when to their amaZoment they ; hehold 8 mastitf dog. The animal , waggcd his tail and whined when he saw the men and seemed gladdened at : the prospect of being liberated from his prison. In another portion of the cone i shaped cell was the carcass of a COW. By some freak of the rushing waters the dog and cow were caught ill this pen Junc ,. the COW being crushed in the ian of logs. The canine was fat and sleek when liberated. and looked none the worse for his TWO months imprison- mont.
 Bob, a red setter. owned by Charle-; W. Cooley. of Paradise township, Pa. keeps guard oyvr the b;irnyard fowls. follows the clUckjE.c mother hens and their broods from one place to another, and lies low for hr0-haWilS Last sum- mCr Bob did nothing of the kind. but late in May he saw an enormous hen hawk SWoop down and carry "N a squawking chic!l,-;l. and since thrn he has taken upon himself the task of watching over all the falthCrcd stock on the premises. Nr. Cooley wasn't q NarC of Bob'S self-imnoScd duties until an afternoon in June. when he heard the
 rooster and the hens cac!zlinr and Suuawking back of the barn. He saw |;
 rcd streak sailing over the fence like {;
 flash. and before hc could go to WhGrC le the frightened fowls were Bob came
 bounding round the corner of the bar:
 with q big hen-ham-k by the neck. Tn, = hawk was Tapping his wings like sixty a but Bob soon cilp}>"u 1t to death. no appearing to mind the beating lie re
 ceivcd from the birds large wings. MT
 Cooley found wounded chicken in thu |, yard. and the indications were that Bol
 had bounced upon the hawk just at the
 instant that tho big bird grabbed th'
 chicken. After that Mr. Cooley tool
 more notice of the dogs actions, and h.
 soon found that Rob had his eye out fo
 hawks at all hours of the day. Hencyc
 barl>s when he goes for q hawk. and h
 has shaken the life out of three sine
 Juno 1.