The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-03-02
some STORIES OF CoGs.
They Are offered Arropos or the Imminent
Opening of the Bench Show Season
Especial ondcnce-


CHICAGO. Jan 2g-The bench show
season Will shortly hCgiE. and then the an
nual wave OF dog stories WI surge through
the land IN fact. II RS already reared
its awful crest, rs l discovered yesterday
during a two hours ride in the smoking
car Of an accommodation train
AS IS always the CG.e On such train,
the personnel Of the passengers was con
stantly chan ging. but there were two men
besides myself who remained in the car as
long as diI. and they both had a few
dog stories 20 tell / started the trouble,
innocently enough, By speaking OF Strip
the dog that was employed IN London two
or three years ago TO Ins|rt electric wires
in subways.
That's a good story. stranger" said
the man who was sitting in the seat with
me as he bit of big chew Of plug cut,
but femme tell you about a dog know
about This dog was in New Jersey five
or six years ago, and he was just naturally
the krowingest dog on four legs He be
longed to a man named Young in Flag
town, Somerset county. Ever been down
therei Well, If you had, you'd have beard
Of Young's dog Frank Frank Is liver
and white mottled, full bred RidKeway
setter, and Young has trained him till you
can't rest As q sporting dog he's the best
ever saw, but it's in other things that
be Is really great When Young gets up
In the morning, he yelIs 70 Frank
"'Get me my buds, old chap Young
says and you ought TO see that dog gather
up the clothes
Whenever Young wants 70 go walking,
be lets Frank know, and the dog jumps
on the rack and gets bis masters hat
He'll carry a note 70 any one and wait for
the answer, and when Young Is cutting
kindling wood the dog carries the sticks
into the kitchen and puts them In the
woodbOx- More than one man had tried
to buy Frank when l heard about him,
but Young used 70 say there wasn't enough
money In Somerset county TO get that
dog"
when was up in Winnipeg two OF
three years ago." said a man wearing
fur cap who Eat in front Of Us, Il heard
about dog that went out with bis master
shooting There were plenty OF prairie
chickens that day, and the dog pointed
'en all right, and the man shot every
time. but for soma reason be didn't bit
airy bird Well, finally be quit and start
ed home. The dog seemed u be awfully
downhearted, but when they got almost
TO the house be got excited and grabbed
the mans coat, like be wanted 70 lead him
somewhere. Well, the man had TO 90,
and where do you suppose the dog led the
1EllCEs " ell E4fs u - d hlA04SDN ~ NAAN
market. and when be got the man there
be gave ore look al the hundreds Of prairie
chickens there for Eale, and then be just
pointed. and be wouldn't go away I'LL the
man had bought"
The man who yyass sitting with me seem
ed N take this story Is q direct reflection
On the truth Of the one be had told and
Etrsigbtwsy retorted with another, which
was nnaDifestIy invented, and then the
man with The fur cap told Of dog that
could chew tobacco and ezpectOrate as ac-
cursteIy az Dickens Mr. ChallOp, whose
exploits were recorded in Martin Cbuz-
zleSit" ] am not sure how long they
would have continued their rivalry II L
had not silenoed both by telling about the
swimming races between dogs that were
carried On near Boston two Or three years
ago. Although this story Of mine was
perfectly true, and the result Of the races
was printed Ia the newspapers the day
after their occurrence, bOtb my coInpsD-
Ions eTidepuy thought me rornaDoer
whom they could not hope % outIle, and
TIE conversation was abruptly changed
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