Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-10-14
A GOOD DOG STORY.
l correspondent of the l.,

A correspondent OF the London
Spectator tells this good dog story:
I am staying with my son, who is
veterinary surgeon, practicing in West
Virginia, United States, who is great
lover of animals, and the the follow
ing. anecdote he told me about dog
you may think worthy to be added to
the many interesting ones already
published in The Spectator. One cold
winters morning my son was riding
through very wild part of these
wooded mountains, and leading an
other horse home to its owner; the
weather was very rough, the cold in
tense, and the snow was so binding it
made it difficult for him to find the
road. After going many miles with
out meeting human being, he met a
man in wagon moving his household
goods. who, on passing him, said :
"You had better not 60 there without
you have revolver, as there is mad
dog on the road; he's been running
around and around my horses legs and
biting at them"
My son thanked him the man, but
said, as he had his work to do, "Mad
dog or no mad dog" he must go on.
Before coming to the part of the road
where he saw the dog, he noticed by
its tracks in the snow that it had been
running backward and forward, and
also it had made a track off the road
deeper into the forest. On seeing my
son, it ran up to him with great dem
onstration of delight, but as soon as
the horses passed the track into the
forest he whined, howled and snap
ped as the horses legs. Seeing that
the dog was not suffering from rabies,
and being exceedingly puzzled by his
very strange behavior, my son dis
mounted, and fastening his horses to
trees in the road, he followed the dog,
who led the way up the track he had
made into the forest. At first my son
thought the dog must have "treed
raccoon," which are common in this
country, but if my son stopped min
ute to look about him, or to listen,
which he did now and then, the dog
would run back and try in every way
to tempt him to follow him. 1t was
still intensely cold, and the snow had
drifted high in many places.
After time the dog stopped by the
trunk of a fallen tree, where there
was the remains of smouldering fire
and workman's empty dinner pail,
and by it man was lying in a very
exhausted condition. My son could
not rouse him; he was quite uncon-
scious; but, after building up the fire
and taking off the mans socks and
rubbing his feet and hands for long
time, and having partially restored
him to consciousness, my son was able
partly to support him and partly drag
him to the road where the horses were
waiting, to dog all the time showing
the greatest delight and eageEpess,
running on in front, and every few
yards turning around and stopping,
with his nose, chest and forlegs on the
ground, but with his hindquarters still
erect; he would wait in that position
until they came up to him, and then
run on again as before. With great
difficulty my son got the man on to a
log, and then on to one of the horses.
1t is an easy thing to lose ones self in
these thickly wooded forests of the
Alleghanies, and, no doubt, the man
had lost bis way, and had no idea how
near he was to the road when he was
overcome with exhaustion and cold
and if it had not been for the devotion
and sagacity of his dog, who happily
came upon my son, the man must
have soon succumbed..
AS soon as the dog had get the re-
sponsibility off his shoulders on to my
sons he followed his master but SEEM
ed to evince no further interest, and
when my son petted him the dog
seemed to ignore him entirely, evil
IDENTIFY looking upon his son as only
means to an end, and, that end being
accomplished, there was nothing fur
ther to be got out of him, and the dog
troubled himself no more about the
matter.
gG The gigantic specimen of the
arctic rhinoceros that was discovered