Missouri Valley times., 1901-08-29
THE TALE OF a DOG.
q TRUTHFUL NARRATIVE OF CANINE
NEr.AC;TY AND sAGAcITY.

q TRUTHFUL NARRATIVE OF CANINE
IErsACiTY AND SAGAClTN.
rs the Story of the Feat Was Related
by IA Preacher Who Was Party to
the Incident NO Further Tcsti:non,
Is Necessary.
A certain Nashville statesman is
about one OF the best story tcllers in
Tennessee, and his repertoire includes a
lot of good ones. fish and otherwise.
On the truthfulncss of some he will
stake his reputation for vcracitv, hut
he tells one which he always prciiNcs
With the statement that it was told him
by n minister of the gospel DIR. Bard
we'll, who will be remembered here by
the older Inhabitants as the assistant
of DR.. Edgar of rcvcrcd memory, who
was pastor of the First Presbyterian
church during the latter years of Gen
eral Andrew JacSsons life and attend
cd the old hero in his last illness. The
story teller said:
cdr. Rardwell used to visit my fa.
theirs house when was Il boy, and the
story am about to tell you was rclat-
ed to me on the occasion of one of these
visits. We We're out on the veranda
smoking one evening after supper. The
doctor was fond of dogs and was q
pretty good sportsman and naturally
the conversation turned on this subject
;,,.r ,c Il n
we'll, reminds me of a dog which be-
longcd to Il friend of mine in MISSISSIPPI
pi. had been invited to hold services
at q church near this friends house
and wrote him to meet me g the sta
tion, some six miles from his house, on
the Saturday afternoon before Sunday,
the day of the appointment.
lie was OH time with horses, and
we started to his home. noticed that Il
Very handsome bird dog followed us,
and, having heard that some one in
that ncighborhood owned an especially
we'll trained trick dog, l 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.
asked him to make him perform n
trick. lie got down from his horse,
called the dog and, taking out his pocl-
etboolS, held 1t to the dogs nose. lie
then took out silver half dollar and.
walking some distance into the woods,
raised UP Il large rock and put the mon-
ey under it. We then resumed our Jour-
ncy, and when probably half II mile
away my friend called his dog and told
him to go back and get the money.
The dog, without the least hesita-
ton, started back on IL run, and. nv
friend explained. as the rock was heavy
The dog would be unable to turn it
over, SO would have to scratch under it
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.
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.
The next morning we got up about
daylight, and, herring noise outside,
my friend opened the door, and the dog
rushed in dragging with him a pair of
pantaloons, which he dropped on the
floor.
"'Of course we were both mystificd.
but had not long to wait an cxplana-
tion. for shortly afterward man who
lived several miles from my friends
house rode up OH Il mule and inquired
II Il dog with a pair of panta.oons i'm
his mouth had come into the house
The dog mt this moment came out on
the porch, and the man said, "Why,
there's the dog now."
"'My friend told his caller that the
dog had really brought pair of pnnta-
looms home with him, but he did not
understand it himself.
The man said that late in The after
noon the day before lie found tile dog
scratching under a large rock near the
road and thinking lie was after II rnb-
bit. stopped and lifted the rock up, and,
to his surprise, found n half dollar on
the undcrside.
He put the money in his pocket. and
the dog followed him home. The dog
appeared to be friendly, and the man
pctted 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 foot OF the bed, where he slept all
night.
Early in the morning, the man said,
he got up and opened the window, and
the instant he did so the dog seized his
uantaloons in his mouth and, jumping
out of the window, fed
The man followed as soon as he
could get his mule.
Hearing thi; story. my friend got
the pantaloons and on searching the
pockets found the half dollar which he
had hid under the rock the afternoon
before "-Nashvillc Banner.
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