The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1901-12-07

His JOY was almost terrifying. 1t came
to this, that when the neighbors heard
! was to return they'd assemble in a
body in the door to witness Jackson's
delight. You would have thought he'd
spring through the very roof. When
his demonstrations were over, he'd sit
and grunt, with his eyes fixed upon me
as though he We're talking. He was the
only dog l ever met that seemed to
know his bark didn't convey all that
was in his mind. I can assure you it
used to affect me to see him trying to
give expression to his thoughts by ut
tering sounds and maneuvcring with his
ears. l believe that dead sailors
soul had passed into that there dog.
Ha! but do then! Never did the like
of SO much intelligence walk on four
legs afore.
There came time when 1 shipped
as second mate and carpenter aboard a
goldman bound to a French port. This
gave me a chance to carry Jackson
along with me, the skipper not objecting.
l had now had the dog about three and a
half years--perhaps four. He was still
an active, beautiful dog with lovely
brown coat of hair, fine as silk, and
eyes as expressive as pretty girls. 1t
came on to blow after we had left port
few hours, and the weather turned
thick as mud in wine glass. We got
the vessel under easy sail; the wind was
little abaft the beam, and we were
blowing through it reckoning on forty
fathoms of water under our keel, when
shortly after six bells of the first watch
the vessel took the ground off the Nor
folk coast; the masts went over the side
and she was wrecked in breath, beat
ing hard with the seas bursting over
her.
There was bit of deckhouse aft,
and most Of the men took shelter in it.
was making my way to that structure
TO join them when the deck blew up
amidships, and to save myself from be-
ing washed overheard, l crawled into
the little cabOose, and when l was
there, feeling horribly lonesome,
thought OF jackson, and putting my
head out through the door l whistled
on the little silver whistle l used to
carry expressly to call him with.
Whether he was aft with the men and
they let him out, suspecting by his
capers on hearing my whistle that he
was going mad, whether he had been
sheltering himself waiting for me to
call him, never could tell. The hull
lay with strong list, and the air was
white with flying spray. All amidships
the hold was yawning; yet five minutes
after l had sounded that whistle l
heard scratching at the gally door,
and on sliding it u bit open in bounded
jackson.
"He had scarcely entered when lump
OF green sea struck the caboose. What
followed is like recollecting the waking
up out of swoon. I remember finding
myself in the water and of scraping at
something with my finger ends. 1t was
the top OF the caboose, as you see it
there; but didn't know what it was
till the day broke. In cropping put my
arm through a hole and held by it. just
then heard a yelp close beside me. l
put my other arm into the smother
where something showed black and
caught hold of the dog-for the dog it
was-and hoisted him on to my back
with his fore-paws on my shoulders.
The water was horribly broken and the
tumbling of the caboose roof sickening;
yet held on with my arm through the
chimney hole and the dog chung to my
shoulders, encouraging me as it were
by sometimes licking my face; and