Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-10-31

Haze Huson, noted hunter in the wilderness around squaW Pond Ike, ln Aroostook county Maine, owns mon- grei dog which much fine gold cannot buy. This dog knows nothing about the pampered life which his city con- sins lead. He answers to the name of Sam, is three years old and weighs forty pounds. Haze got him when pup from a Tobique River India', glV- Ing in exchange for him two muskrat skins and half pint of red liquor. Sam gave proofs early in his career that he was no ordinary dog. He never wasted time on running after snhA5' birds. and has never been known to exert his energy In chasing cats or baying at the moon, but gives hIs leisure time to more industrious pur- suits. His sagacity, inteIEeence anu remarkable doings have been the top ics for r,any an evenings discussion at the village grocery, where the resi- dents of the town eongregate tWlee week to get their letters and papers rom down the state. Huson has camp on the shore of SquaW Pond lake, where he spends the greater part or ms time. and Sam constantly keeps an eye out for bear, etc. The region abounds in bear, deer, moose and caribou, but Sam has learned the laws of the state and in close time will not chase one of the animals. However, if any ot them strays into the camp ya q, Sam sees 10 1t that he does not l 'Iag remain. No charge of illegal killing has eFer been laid at the dogs door, so to speak. AS a fisherman Sam mas become an expert. In the lake near by are many fine trout that are not molested by the high-priced kit of the city fisherman, and the dog spends much of his time on the shores of t1Ie lake where he watches with great interest tba slimy bottom of the lake where ths trout come up to feed off the water weeds. When Huson wants a trout for dinner he calls Sam and tells the aniE'al to bring a trout. Sam immediately goes to the shore of the lake, watches few minutes, and then swims out. Shortly after he dives toward the bottom. and nine times out of ten when he reap pears at the surface he has the fish in his mouth. Sam dislikes chub, eels and suckers and never touches them. Near the lake there are fine fiocks of ducks. They come up in the fall and remain for a few weeks, and Sam ts then on velvet. His long suit is catch. ing ducks. He enters the water some distance from where a flock is, and swims along carefully until within a few feet cs the birds. Then he goes ander water and rises underneath 2 duck and pulls 1t under the w1ter. Then he starts for shore, leaves his catch and goes after another. Sam's most notable exploit was last June. Huson's camp is built along the side 0; a big, sloping rock, the top of which is nearly even with the eyes of the cabin roof. One day, just after din- ner, Haze started in his canoe across the lake. slight fire was burning in the camps stove at the time, and the stovepipe being defective, sparks fell on the dry rOOI. l HdHe was soon started, and the camp was in dagger of being burned unless something was done quickly to prevent it. Sam was lying in the yard, having his monday nap, when he smelled the smoke He awoke and found a small blaze on the roof Without ringing in an alarm by barking the dog rushed into the camp and grabbed water pail in his teeth and ran to the lake. There hs filled the vessel and ran back to the house climbed the rock and turned the water onto the blazing roof. He re- peated this operation several times un- til the fire was extinguished. and be- fore Huson, who had seen the flames from his canoe, could reach the house