The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-19
rREED BY HIS NEWFOUNDLAND.
Joke on a minneapolis Man Who
MistoOIx His Dog for IA Bear.
From the Minneapolis Journal.

From the Minneapolis Journal.
John Shields, an old hunter and guide of
Itasca. was in town this morning getting
in a stock of ammunition and other nee
essaries for his winter campaign He tells
a funny story on a well-known Mnneap-
oils man, but urged that the name of the
individual be suppressed, as he was afraid
he might lose a customer if it were used.
ANYHOW. the man is in the milling bust
ness and he doesn't very often hunt, but
when he does it is with all the impedl-
ments that go to make up home comfort
The milling man has a big black New
foundland dog, a great pet ana Wheh ne
went up into the woods month ago os-
tensibly after grouse and ducks ne TOOK
the big dog with him. The Newfoundland
got on all right until well clear OF civil
cation, when his hairy hide began 20 I'll
nm with cookie burrs, sand burrs ana cN-
erv other sort of burr that makes Spe-
cialtv of tying to rOugh-coated animals.
BEFORE five miles of wild territory hao
boen covered the big dog looked hke
Russian thistle on the move. Scafcety
vestige of his silken coat remained Nlsio4e
so thicl<lv was he covered with suckers
of one sort or another. The milling man
o,rsed his. own stupidity for having
brought the dog and sadly reflected that
the only possible way of Kidding the poor
ESAN-N~0 liz,
animal of his membranes was TO cllp
him. - ,bo
Camn was reached at o'clock in the
aftornoon and the guide began making
things ready for comfortable nlght Iae
cut a lot. of spruce bouGhs Tor peduliis'
set up the tent, built fire. started 'he
l,ettla and generally indicated that ne IN
derstood his business. MeahWhi ne 'lie ~,
Ter went out a short distance from camp
on theory that he might pick up grouse
enough for supper. After he had peeu
cone half an hour Shields heard an awlul
Yelling out in the forest and ran as haru
&c he could to see what was up. lie 1ouha
The miller up a tree, at the foot OF WhAch
Law his shotgun. The miller sWofe lha' ne
had been chased up the tree py psal
and that he had just barely manaSed 70
escape with his life. Shlelos dluh 50
much on the bear story, because as ne
80 baars always run unless they We
,,oiab+v GOOD reason for not running lie
go II as his opinion that if the milling
-, saw a bear he didn't see the Dear
,,ory long. bus the miller insisted that the
o,,i,,oa1 had chased him right up 10 the
trunk of the tree -
shields decided that it was best 70 iet
4be Minneapolitan believe he had hau an
awful close call, so they went lhto camp
and nothing more was said about the mat
tor
,.,,,,a GOOD duck shooting and enjoyed NM
re generally until one evening, when they
nod been over to the lake about three miles
au,av from their camp for the evening
sbooting They were returning by an In
l7ian +ran through the forest, when al
~ Sudden a big, bulgy looking animal
1a.,,,ad nm ont of the darkness and made
straight for the miller. That gentleman
al, one look at the creature, uttered
veil dropped his gun, ducks ana every
3hing loose and started through the WOODS
~ a 2.2o clip. The big hairy animal start
~ ofter him and seemed to be entering
fIuv into the enthusiasm of the chase
tToIyipe, RIM about 100 yards and finding
Tho animal still c.ose on his heels, the
miller tried tree climbing once more. he
rad inst grpped the lower branches OF
small tree when the hairy animal mace
a lean and he felt it's big paws scratching
his hunting coat. With yell for help' ne
dropped into the dead leaves ana began
so,,irrning around on his back, kicking as
hard &c he could at the hairy animal. The
latter seemed to enjoy the fun hugely, gam
boIing and leaping in evident delight. All
If a sudden the hairy animal barked. The
miller quit kicking and sat up
The things he said to that Newfound-
Iard dog were a sort that would only look
vveu in Sauscrit or some other dead Ian
guage. ,.
After a short rest he retracted his steps,
Meeting Shields halfway. The old man
,,Ios a. curled up with laughter and he
didn,t get over laughing at the miller's
hear Cor weeks. He isn't over it yet, in
IN for in telling the story to-day, he
seemed to derive just as much amusement
from il as ever