Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1901-07-15
THE TALE OLE a Dog.

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TsENAclTY AND sAeAclTY. ss
Al the st.rys OF the Eent was Relnted
- by q Preacher Who WAS d P0rty tos
the %Incidens No Furfher T~estinaon.g
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A certain Nashville statesman il.
about . Of the best story tellers ID!
Tennessee, and his repertoire includes al
lot Of good one fish and otherwise.
On the t~ruthfulness Of some lie will
stake his reputation for yeracity, but;
he tellsSone which lie always prefixes
with the statement that 1t was told him
By q minister of the gospel, DR.. Bard
Well,SWho will be remembered here by
the older Inhabitants as the assistant
OF pr. Edgar Of reyered memory, who
was pastor Of the First Presbyterian
church during the latter years ofS,Gen-$
zeral Andrew Jackson's life and attend
ed the old hero In his last illness. The
story teller said, VI
.Dr. Bardwell used to visit my ia
theirs house when I was a. boy, and the
story am about to tell you was relat,
ed to me or the occasion OF one Of these
visits. We were ont on the yeranda
smoking one evening after supper. The
doctor was fond Of dogs aud was q
pretty good sportsman and naturally
the conversation turned on this subject.
n Speaking Of dogs said DR. Bard
well, reminds me OF d dog which. be-
tonged to a friend Of mine in MISSISSIPPI
pi. I had been invited to hold services
at a church near this friends house
and wrote him to meet me at the sta
ton, some six miles from his house, on
the Saturday afternoon before Sunday,
the day OF the appointment.
tile was on time with horses, and
we started to his home. I noticed that a
very handsome bird dog followed us,
and, having heard that some one in
that neighborhood owned an especially
well trained trick dog. / asked my
friend about it. #
That's the dog" at the same time
pointing at his dog, which had run
ahead Of us and was waiting at the
forks of the road. =.
II asked him to, make him perform a
trick, He got down from his horse.
called5the dog and, taking out his pock-
etbook, held it to the dogs nose. He
then took out q silver, half dollar and,
walking some distance into the woods,
raised up q large rock and put the mon
.ey under it. We then resumed our jour
ney, and when probably half a mile
away my friend called his dog and told
him to go back and get the money.
1.-THE dog, without the least hesita-
ton, started back on IA run, and, my
friend explained, as the rock was heavy
the dog would be unable to turn it
oversee would have to scratch under. 1t
to reach the piece of money, and he
would not probably get home before we
reached there, it then being about three
miles farther on to his house. sss
However, when we reached home
the dog was not there. We ate supper,
and still the dog did not come, nor had
he put in an appearance when@We re-
tired at about 10 O'Clock. #.s$5
".The next morning we got up about
daylight, and, hearing a8noiseg outside,
my friend opened the door, and the dog
rushed in dragging with him a pair Of
p%antaloons, which he dropped on the
floor. p ~ @tE SG
so course we were both mystifed,
but had not long to wait an explana-
ton, for shortly afterward q man who
lived several miles from my friends
house rode up on a mule and inquired
Il. dog with a pair Of p%antaloons in
his mouth had come into the house.
The dog at this moment came out on
the porch, and the man said, "Why,
there's the dog now "a
i My friend told his caller that the
dog had really brought pair Of panta-
looms home with him, but he did not
understand 1T himself.
SO b man said that late in*the after
noon the day before He found the dog
scratching under q large rock near the
road and thinking he was after a rab-
BIT stoppedand lifted the rock up, and,
to his surprise, found a half dollar on
the underside. 4
HE put the money in his pocket, and
the dog followed him home. The dog
appeared to be friendly, and the man
spetted him and gave him his supper.
AT night when the family retired the
dog was put Oh the outside, but he
kept up such q racket that no oneacould
sleep on the place, and when the man
opened the door to drive the dog OF he
rushed Into his bedroom and at once
became very quiet, lying down near
the foot OF the Bed, where he slept all
night. $Fss2
Early In the morning, the man said,
he got up and opened heSwindow, and
the instant he did5so the dog seized his
pa%ntaloons In his mouth and, Jumping
out OF the window, fled. 4
III THE man followed Is 8 as he
could get his mule.
asHearinsy this story, my friend cot
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