Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-08-10
A WONDERFUL TAIL.
Remarkable Training an Augusta Dog
Has Received.
The True Spirit Of Patriotism How an A..
gusta Attorney Fooled His Client.

A we'll known hotel man in this civ
has very clever dog which is as
good a bird dog as there is in this vi.
cinity. The other day, he had a guest
from Boston who wanted to be q
sportsman but really did not know
how. He engaged the II. p. in CONVEX.
sation in regard to the fishing in The
vicinity and from that it turned n
shooting.
Seeing how easily it would be to fool
the young man the hotel man thought
as the dog came in the door that he
might as well tell a good lie as he
was going to tell one so he told the
following story.
1T is my experience that an Eng
ilsh pointer makes the best kind of a
bird dog. l have a trained English
pointer there that can locate a covey
minute he gets covey located he be-
gins tapping with his tail. We have
a code arranged between us. He gives me
the signals under the Morse system of
dots and dashes. For instance, the
last time l was out with him he
stopped suddenly and began marking
off the dots and dashes with his tail
l kept count and read: 'Y-P-30
That meant young cartridges 80
yards ahead
| How many? | whispered to him.
| lie sneaked up a little distance and
counted 43. l slipped in one Of my
| special made cartridges, which are so
| flattened that the shot spread from
side to side. but not up and down. BY
the use of these cartridges when a
covey of cartridges rise in a line l can
bag the whole lot.
when they lifted l blazed away,
and not one of them fell-at least |
didn't see any fall-but / walked UP
to the place and the ground was liter
| ally covered with the feet of the par
tridges. l had aimed just little bit
too low. l counted the feet and there
| We're exactly S6-two for each one.
| did it merely to check up the dogs
count 1t merely shows how well the
| dog was trained
The war has brought out many
strange and ludicrous experiences to
those who have felt the burning fire
of patriotism. and though they were
called upon to give up their home and
college and give their lives to their
| country.
The following anecdote of an Au-
gusta young man. which was kept
quiet until within a few days. will
please his many friends. for anyone
intimately knowing the young man
will at once recognize him.
The conversation took place upon a
visit of his chum at Camp Powers be-
fore the 1st Maine Volunteers went to
Chickamauga.
SO you've seen mother? Really,
you know, she's a brick; but my good
ness, mothers are funny. She doesn't
want me TO enlist, not the least little
bit, but I've been two years in the
militia, and even if wanted to get out,
which I don't" he hastily added, she
| l.,f4 ~,
ing tail so she hasn't said a word but
helped me off like a Spartan; never
cried a tear when she kissed me good
by. Oh, she's true blue, But do YOU
know what that foxy little woman is
doing? She's just laying low and put
ting her faith in my not being able to
pass the physical examinations. I've
thought SO since the first, and now I'm
sure of it, for yesterday she sent my
eyeglasses up by ten-cent team at
a time when the officers would be sure
to see them.
You know l don't need glasses any
more than a cat needs two tails; l only
wore them at the play, or to read at
night when my head was tired, but she
hoped the surgeon might see them and
turn me down for defective sight"
The man laughed and then sighed.
Poor little mother" he said. Il
smashed the glasses and buried the
pieces. For the first time in my life
she's sorry I've outgrown the heart
trouble l had when l was a child. You
jolly her up all you can, won't you :.
1t nearly broke her heart to know |
was sleeping on straw. Being her
'onliest' she's always thought l was
glass You tell her all this is good for
me, and it is. too" he asserted stoutly
There goes drill call, and l must turn
out Come down again, do. You don't
know how pleased we are to have you
it keeps us civilized"
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