The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-08-20
DOGS and WoOdcbuck.

A correspondent sends to the
Youths Companion from Paris, Me-,
an entertaining story of three dogs
and a woodchuck.
"Some years ago." he says, Il owned
| a dog, Sport, who was a famous wood
chuck hunter. In the course of one
season., when woodchucks were I'M
usually numerous and troublesome,
Sport caught % by actual count.
zone day in June, when l was hoe
| ing corn. l heard a good deal of bark
ing in an adjoining field, and knew
pretty well what must be going on.
On my way to the corntield after din
ner, therefore, / went across lots to
| see what Sport was about, and to help
him a bit, If need be, by removing a
| stone or two from the wall in which
the quarry had taken refuge.
"A chorus of excited yelps and
banks guided me to the spot, and as
l drew near l saw that Sport had
plenty of help. Zip, a neighbours dog,
was on one side, of the wall with him,
and on the other side was Rover, a
large hound.
"All three dogs had their noses I'M
der the stones, and they were digging
and making the dirt fly with their
paws, and barking and yelping as
dogs will when game is almost won.
From within the wall l heard the
~woodchuck's peculiar, defiant whistle.
"Just as 1 approached Sport jumped
back and dragged forth the wood
chuck. AT almost the same instant
Zip withdrew his head from the wall
and fixed his teeth in the game; and
then began a struggle for supremacy,
each dog evidently setting up a claim
for the woodchuck.
Rover, on the other side. with his
head in the wall. was so eagerly en-
gagged that he did not at once com
prehend what had occurred: then it
flashed upon him. and he sprang upon
the wall, and for n mOment looked
down on the struggling dogs.
Like a whirlwind he launched him
self from the stones upon the wood
chuck, tore it from the mouths of the
other dogs and bore it eff in his teeth.
sit happened so suddenly that Sport
and Zip didn't know what to make of
it. They seemed dazed and looked this
way and that as if to ascertain what
had become of their prey. AS fol
Rover. he disappeared over the brow
of a hill. and l do not think the two
dogs left behind ever fairly realized
what became of that woodchuck."
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