Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-07-21
EVERY INCH y SPORT.
A Dog That Travels Alone to the Forests
After Game.

The dog best and most widely known to
San Francisco sportsmen is a portly, cum
ming old hound belonging to G. D. Laid en-
Kearny street. He is a strange mixture
of the blood aud the fox hound equally di-
vided, and he seems to have inherited the
keen nose and energetic characteristic of
the one combined most advanta geously
ITO dog of his incliHations with the ner-
vo1 = excitability and relish for sport Of the
other. Long ago his master called him
ANDY" but with the experience If years
the hound grew in sel6Snness and inelle-
gence, so he now enjoys the appellation of
"Andy the bum"
Often he is simply Bum" but still he
remains the same extraordinary animal,
partly street arab, partly sport and mostly
tramp, with nomadic and predatory in
stincts.
His most famous feats are long trips into
country alone In quest of game, and the
establishment of a free lunch route which
has given him a means of livelihood.
Last evening Bum lay stretched out upon
a sheet of paper In the rear of his masters
Cffce, dreaming of his last free neal or his
lonely trip to the Sonoma redwood forests
after deer.
He is tie most notionest dog | ever
heard of, remarked an attendant, who
Bun regards as one of MS particular trends
when Bum once takes notion into his
head nothing can change him.
He goes where he likes and does as he
pledsss, but always makes this place his
headquarters. Take that dog and you IL not
find any like him. Few dogs know where
to go for their grub but he never worries
about his meals.
That is settled in his mind he has his
route of free lunches and saloons.
'Some times he grows tired of the city
and takes to the country. He just trots
down to the ferry, sails over to Sauceito
and then takes seat In baggage-car to
the redwOodS.
eve have heard frome him in Sonoma,
Cazadere and Glen Ellen frequently, where
he gees by himself to the deer grounds
familiar to him. There he hunts deer and
small game for week at time and then
returns home.
How does he travel? Well all the con-
duct)rs, engineers and brakemen on the
Nor Pacific Coast Raj way know him we'll
aud he is very friendly with them. They
let him lie IN the aggage car and he drops
IF wherever it suirS him.
'Philo JaC 10y, the S2huti zen King, kilt
ed several deol with nim, and says he has
the best nose Cor deer Of any dog he ever
shot over. But Bum loses he8ro now that
the deer law stops hunting, and he strolls
away to the deer trail alone When / go
hunting small game | lave to play tricks
at the raj rod depot TO leave him behind
| viii wait till the train is moving and
hen jump on. H. follows me few blocks
but soon gives up the IN In disgust"
Are you not afraid OF losing him?'
"Not bit Of it He knows the city bet
Ter than myself and gets around eserywh ere.
Look at him now-he is satisfied with
paper bed. At night he would get up on
the cases and take rug or clo5h TO lie up
on.
He wants to have things comfortable
and to erjoy himself either out hunting
in tee couutry by hjms II getting bone
or sleeping Tnat'S Bum. San Francis
CO Examiner.