The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-11-13

There was a woll-to-do farmer In
tho neighborhood Of Ipswich, q great
breeder Of cattle, who had q small
smooth terrier to which be vas very
much attached. and which was always
with him. On one occasion he went
10 cell some Of his beasts a. Ipswich,
aud, as usual, his dog followed him.
Prices ran high that day, and the
farmer got far larger sum than he
expected for his buliookA
When the market was over be went
with a FREUD who kept a public house
in the town, aud boosted 10 the pub
lican of bis success, adding: II am
going to sleep at my daughters to-
night, but shall go home tomorrow
morning, and won't my missus bo
pleased when she sees the money!
His friend congratulated him, and the
farmer having paid his score, took mp
his hat 10 leave the public house,
whistling his dog, rs he did 80, to fol-
low him. But to his astonishment she
would not come. In vain he
called her, first enceuragingly,
then angrilyi the dog would
not obey, but hid under the settees
and in the back yard, eluding oil pur-
suit "Welll" exclaimed the farmer,
that's the most extraordinary thing
ever knew. That creature has been
like my shadow ever since she was q
puppy. She even insisted on going to
church with me. What has happened
to her can't think I" Then recon-
mendiDg her to the care of his friend
"till she came to her Senses" he went
away very dissatisfied, leaving the dog
behind
The next morning he started early
on horseback to his farm, having
called in vain for his dog, who had
disappeared. The road led through a
narrow lane with high banks on either
side. AS he came into this lane his
dog suddenly started up before his
horse, and by barking, running back
ward and forward, and by everything
a dog could do, tried to prevent her
masters going on. When she found
it was useless to try and stop him, she
dashed forward up the steep bank, and
in moment man came rolling over
and over down to the road, with the
dog at his throat, while another man
was seen scrambling up the bank and
making his escape.
The farmer dismounted and ran to-
ward the man, who said in a stihed
voice, Call off your dog, who is throt-
ting me, and I will confess all. "The
farmer did So and the man confessed
that he and "his PAL had been at the
farther end of the public house in a
dark corner when the farmer had been
boasting of the money he had got at
the sale, that then and there they had
made a plot to rob him on his way
home, and if he resisted to murder
him. But they never could get
rid of the dog. Her instinct
warned her that there was some mis-
chief brewing against her master, and
she never lost sight of them a moment
the whole night through. When
they started in the morning for the
lane she followed them, though at a
safe distance; and when they concealed
themselves in the brushwood of the
bank she laid down and watched them
till she heard the hoofs OF her mas
ter's horse, when she dashed forward
to stop him, as have related.
Some other men came up, and the
would-be robber was arrested and
brought to trial at the Assizes, where
Sir Robert Peel WAS present and heard
the whole evidence. The dog was
produced in court as having saved her
masters life, and her extraordinary
instinct and fidelity made such an inn
preston on Sir Robert that he was
never weary of repeating the story. -
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