Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1890-06-28
A MoNpERFuL DOG.
A story That is said to bo strictly the
Truth.

A story That is said to DO strictly the
Truth.
From the New York sun.
AZ have owned good many hunting
dogs, !" said L. II. Jermyn, well-known n
Scranton sportsman, the other evening"
"but the greatest one l ever had was q
spaniel, and my last experience was
|,peculiar. got the spaniel when he was a
| few months old, and he soon became SO
much attached to me that he wouldn't fol-
low any other member of the family any
where But before got through with him
Lhe porvoked me more than all the dogs
lever had put together. Iowned two moro
spaniels that were excellent partridge or
rabbit hunters, and when the young dog
was little more than year old l began
10 try to toach him 10 hunt with them. He
was better bred than they were, but l
Icouldn't get him to run with them for q
rod. He kept close to my heels from the
time started for the field till 1 got back.
l let him smell of dead birds and rabbits,
and did everything I could think of to
teach him how to range, but it was useless.
l took him afeld every time / did the
others, and / exhausted all of my tact and
patience to make something of him-neyer
abused him, always treated him kindly,
but away from my heels l couldn't drive
him. He obeyed me everywhere except
N the fields and woods, and toward the
end of the hunting season l made up my
| mind to kill him.
AZ was out shooting for the last time
over in Benton township. The dog had be-
laved in the same provoking way all day,
| md as sat resting on log i called MN
| 20 me, looking him in the eye and said to
nim in an ordinary tone: 'Old fellow, Tn
xoiny TO blow the top of your head OIL when
get you in the woods intended to shoot
him to death Just as much as L intended
| % go to bed that night, and when l got to
IL. ia ...do
cooked my gun without looking around
and said: Come on old fellow, I'll put an
end to you right here supposing that the
log was at my heels as usual. He didn't
pound forward, as l expected him to, and
looked behind me. The dog wasn't
here, and l haven't seen him from that
lay to this. My name was on tho collar,
md knew that somebody in the country
would run across him, but l didn't care
whether they did or not.
"The strangest thing about the dog
:ane later. More. than three months
after that Benton farmer called at my
louse and wanted to know if / had lost =
log. told him the queer circumstances,
md he went on to say mat after dark. on
he same day that had come SO near kill
ny the spaniel. he heard something scratch
ng on his kitchen door followed by faint
whine. He opened the door and in came
nv dog. The man lived four miles from
where had missed the spaniel, and he
,aid that the dog made himself perfectly
1t home from the moment he enter ed the
Ilouse, and took to every member OF the
anily right along. He said he had hunted
With the spaniel number of times and
hat he had never seen better bird dog Of
hat breed. told him he was welcome to
he spaniel and suppose he has him yet
Now, what puzzled me was, did that
log know what said to him when l told
him that was going to blow tho top of his
iead off when got him up in the woodsP
DR. did he Judge from my countenance or
he manner in which spoke to him that /
nj 1t to kill him? He had never left my
,eeis before, and his seeking protection
II nony total strangers four miles from the
pot showed that he know good deal
more than / supposed he did"