The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1901-07-31
THE TALE OF A DOG.
a TRUTHFUL NARRATIVE OF CANINE
TENAcI1Y AND SAGAclTY.


~ the Story OF the Feet Was Related
by Preacher Who Was Party to
the Inciden& no Further Testimony
In Necessary.
a certain Nashville statesman is
about one Of the best story tellers in
Tennessee, and his repertoire includes q
Cot Of good ones, fish and otherwise.
On the truthfulness Of some he viii
stake his reputation for veracity, but
he tells one which he always prefxes
with the statement that it was told him
&y a minister OF the gospel. DR.. BARD
wei, who will be remembered here by
the older inhabitants as the assistant
uS Dr. Edgar Of revered memory, who
~as pastor OF the First Presbyterian
church during the Latter years OF Cen
eral Andrew Jackson's life and attend
ed the old hero in his last illness The
ssory teller said:
sDp. Baedweu used TO visit my fs-
sher's house when was boy, and the
story am about to tell you was relat-
I'd TO me on the occasion Of enepf these
visits. We were oue on the veranda
smoking one evening after supper. The
doctor was fond Of dogs and was
pretty good sportsman and naturally
the conversation turned on this subject.
Speaking Of dogs said DR.. Bard
Ne ~ 6nor yrff0h hn.
aonged to friend Of mine In Aississip-
I'd. had been invited to hold services
ut a church near this friends house
and wrote him to meet me at the Sta
1ien, gone six miles from his house, on
9he Saturday afternoon before Sunday.
Ghe day Of the appointment
He was on time with horses, and
Nve started to his home noticed that
very handsome bird dog followed Us,
and, having heard that some one in
that neighborhood owned an especially
well trained trick dog. / asked my
Hiendabout ii.
s'1 .sThat'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.
s 7 asked him to make him perform
trick. He got down from his horse.
called the dog and. taking out his pock-
efbook, held it to the dogs nose. He
then took out e. silver half dollar and.
walking some distance into the woods.
raised ND 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.
"sThe dog, without the least hesita-
fon, started back on a run, and, my
friend explained, as the rock was heavy
the dog would be unable to turn it
ever, so would have to scratch under it
10 reach the piece Of money. and he
would not probably get home before we
reached there, it then being about three
miles farther OF TO his house.
However, when we reached home
the dog was not there. We ate supper,
md still the dog did not come, nor had
ne put in an appearance when we re-
tired at about 10 o'clock.
The next morning we got up about
daylight, and, bearing a noise outside.
my friend opened the door, and the dog
rushed in dragging with him q pair Of
pantalcons. which he dropped on the
aoor.
@+of course we were both mystifed
but had not long to wait an explana-
lion, for shortly afterward man who
lived several miles from my friends
house rode up on a mule and inquired
Il dog with a pair of pantaloons in
his mouth had come into the house.
The dog at this moment came out on
the porch, and Ehe man said. why.
there's the dog now"
~<My friend told his caller that the
dog had really brought pair Of panta-
icons home with him, but he did not
understand ic himself
The man said that late IN the after
noon the day before be found the dog
scratching under large rock near the
road and. thinking be was after rab-
01&7 SlOpPSO 60Q Al1GO l4S IOSA u o0O,
80 his surprise, found 8 half dollar on
the urderside.
~ he put the money in his pocket and
the dog followed him home. The dog
appeared to be friendly, and the man
pefted him and gave him his supper.
At night when the family retired the
dog was put on the outside, but he
kept up such a racket that no one could
sleep on the place, and when the man
opened the door to drive the dog off he
rushed into his bedroom and at once
became very quiet, lying down near
The foos Of the bed, where be slept all
night.
Early in the morning. the man said,
he got up and opened the window, and
fhe instant he did so the dog seized his
p2ntaloors In his mouth and, jumping
CEf OF the window, fed
The man followed as soon as he
could get his mule.
Hearing this story. my friend got