Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-02-02
soME sToRIEs oE poes.
They Are offered Apropos of the Imminent
 Opening of the Bench Show Season.

Opening of the Bench show Season.
 Special Correspondence.l
 CHICAGo, Jan. 2S.-Tho bench show season will shortly begin, and then the an nual wave of dog stories will surge through the land. In fact, it has already reared Its awful crest, as l discovered yesterday during two hours ride in the smoking car of m accommodation train.
 As is always the case on such a train, the personnel of the passengers was con stantly changing, but there were two men besides myself who remained in the car as long as did, and they both had a fsAy dog stories to tell. l started the trouble, innocently enough, by speaking of Strip, the dog that was employed in London two or three years ago to insert electric wires in subwayS.
 That's good story, stranger, said the man who was sitting in the seat with me as he bit off big chew of plug cut but lemmo tell you about a dog l know about This dog Was in New Jersey aVc or six years ago, and he was just naturally the krowingcst dog on four legs. He be longed to n IA..n named Young in Flag town. Somerset county. Ever been down thereY Well, if you had, you q have hcarIl of Noung's dog Frank Frank is n liver and white mottlcd, full bred Ridgeway setter, and Young has trained him till you can't rest. .As a sporting dog he's the best l ever saw. but it's in other things that he is really grvat When Young gets up in the morning, he wells to Frank
 '''Get me my ,luols, old chap. Ioung says, and you ought tu sec that dog gather up the clothes.
 Whenever Gouua; wants tu go walking he lets Frank know, and the dog jumps on the rack and gcts his masters hal Hell carry note to any one and wait for the answer. and when Young k cutting kindling wood the dog carries the sticks into the kitchen and puts them in the wootlbON. Moro than one man had tried to buy Frank when l heard about him, but Young used to say there wash enough money in Somerset county Ia get that dog
 w hen WAS up in Winnipcg two or three years ago, said man wearing a fur cap who sat in front of Us. Il heard about n deg that went out with his master shooting. rherc were plenty of prairie chickens that day. and the dog pointed 'em all right, and the man shot every time, hut for some reason he didn't hit ary bird Well, finally he quit and start cd home The dog seemed to Le awfully downheartcd. but when ;hey got almost to the house he got excited md grabbed the mans coat like he wanted to lead hin, somewhere We'll. the man had tO 20 and where du You suppose ihc dog led the fellow: Well. sir, it was straight to the market, and when he got the man there he gave one look at the hundreds of prairie chickens there for sale and then he just pointed. and he wouldn't go awaS till tho man had bought.
 The nan who was sitting with lac seem ed 10 take this story a direct reflection on the truth of the one he had told and straightway rrtortCd with another which was manifestly invented. and then the man with the fur cap told uf a dog that could chew tobacco and rNPCCICr0Tc as 0c- cuTately aS Dickens Nr. Challop, wEoS>' exploits We're recorde,l in Martin Ckuz- ZlCwit l am not >urc how long ttICv would have continued their rivalry ii l had not SilCncCd both by telling ahout the. swimming races between dogs that wen carried Or near Boston two or three ycar~ ago Although thi> story of mine was perfectly LruC, and the result of the ractS was printed i'll tho newspapers the day after their ,e'Curr,nCc huth my Cumpau- ions evidently thought Inc "A romanccr whom they could not hopc io nurlic, and the conversation was abruptly ChaugCd