Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-09-21
WONDERFUL DOG.
HE BRINGS IN TROUT AND
 DUCK FROM THE LAKE.
Puts Out Fire in the Hunters Camp
 by Bringing and Pouring Water Other Knowing Tricks -owned by
 Maine Huntsman.

Haze Huson, a noted hunter in the wilderness around squaw Pond ike, in Aroostook county, Maine, owns mon gre1 dog which much fine gold cannot buy. This dog knows nothing about the pampered life which his city cou- sins lead. He answers to the name CT Sam. is three years old and weighs forty pounds. Haze got him when pup from a Tobique River Indi&n. glY- ing in exchange for him two muskFat skins and hall pint of red liquor. Sam gave proofs early in his career that he was no ordinary dog. lie never wasted time on running after snd4 birds and has never been known 10 exert his energy in chasing cats or paving at the moon, but gives ms leisure time to more industrious puT- suits. His sagacity, intellisenee anu remarkable doings have been tbe top fcs for raany an evenings djseusslon at the village grocery. where the resi- dents of the town congregate twice d week to get their letters and papers from down the state, Huson bas camp on the shore of Squaw Pond lake where he spends the greater part ot ms time. and Sam constantly keeps an eye out for bear, etc. The region aDounds 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 of them strays into the camp "a d Sam sees to it that he does not pg remain. No charge of illegal killing has ever been laid at the dogs door, so to speak. AS a fisherman Sam has become an expert. Tn 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 the lake. where he watches with great interest the slimy bottom of the lake where the trout come mp to feed off the wafer weeds. When Huson wants a trout for dinner lie calls Sam and tells the ansE'al to bring a trout Sam immediately goes to the shore of the lake. watches a few
 
 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 chHb, 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 is then on velvet. His long sui, Is catch ing ducks. He enters the water some distance from where a flock is. and sWims along carefully until within a few feet of the birds. Then he goes under water and rises underneath duck and pulls t under the water. Then he starts for shore. leaves his catch and goes after another. Sans most notable exploit was last June. Huson's camp is built along the side of big. sloping rock. the top Of which IS nearly even with the eyes Of the cabin roof One day, just after din- neT, 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 roof. 4 flame was soon started and the camp was in danger 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 8 water pail in his teeth and ran 10 the lake. There he 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- 1il the fire was extinguished. and be- fore Huson. who had seen the flames from his canoe, could reach the house.