The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1901-10-22
GREAT ON POINTS"
BiH5 Dog Whose Natural Traits Amount
ed to Mania.

Talking about bird dogs" said the
man with the shifty eye. in the rear
seat of the trolley car-and nobody
had said word about bird dogs or
any other kind of dogs-"I had the
most remarkable bird dog that ever
happened, l guess, when was living
out in Santa Barbara, Cal, in 90.
don't s'pose there will ever be the
likes Of that dog on this earth again.
/ raised him from Il pup. He was
pointer from away back. 1t was Just
rs natural for that dog to flop on to
his launches and point Mt n bird as
it is for us humans to eat things that
don't agree with us.
He began to point before he had
shed his milk teeth. l took him out
for walk one day when he was only
about two months old. and it took us
about four hours to get over two miles
or ground, for that dog would sit down
and point at n bird about every ten
feet of our progress 1t didn't make
any sort of difference what kind of
4 bird II was that he pointed mt. He'd
point at any old kind of n bird If
Il little bunch of English sparrows
would settle down in the middle of
the street he'd just sit down ard
point at them, and it was all / could
do to get him TO come along with me.
He'd point at Il robin sitting on top
OF a cottonwood tree, and he'd point
at Brahim rooster clawing up
flower bed in front yard. Any old
thing that had feathers on it that
dog of mine would point at. Had
him out one afternoon when a bald
headed eagle began to soar around
above Santa Barbara, about three
miles up in the sir. and blamed If
that dog didn't catch sight of the no.
bic bird and point at it until | had
to bat him with Il club to induce him
to come along with me.
"One day l had an aching tooth
and l decided to go to a dentist and
have the miserable mo.ar yanked out.
l felt so bad that 1 took that pointer
pup along with me for company on
ny way TO the tentist's Office. and
when he got to the Coor he slipped
into the Office with me. Next thing [
knew that pointer pup OF mine was
sitting back on his quarters. appoint
ing at picture of some rufiied grouse
that the dentist had ON the wall of
his reception room.
In the course of time polE ing got
to be a regular mania OF that dogs.
and l couldn't take him out for exer-
else very often on account of His habit
OF tagging behind and point at feath
cred things. Took him out one
AFTERNOON when he was about n wear
old, and furniture van with a lot of
pillows piled on top of some beds
came along. One of the pillows was
broken at the side and a lot of featb-
ers escaped That dog OF mine saw
the lying feathers, and blame me If
he didn't sit down and point at that
furniture van. Fact.
But that wasn't the cutest thing
he ever did. The cutest thing he ever
did was one afternoon when / took
him down to the Santa Barbara beach
Tor walk on the sand. 1 hadn't any
sooner got him down to the beach
than he sat down and began to point
out TO sea. l couldn't for the life of
me make out what he was pointing
A-ANAN NdSAA al y al ulIu, not even
n seagull, in sight. But he kept right
on squatting there at the verge of the
sea and pointing out over the water.
and If ever man was puzzled. then
l was. At first l calculated that he
might be installing the crests of the
waves for feathers, but no, little re-
hection convinced me that he wasn't
any such fool dog as to do a thing
like that Then l noticed that he
was pointing directly at a white shin
that lay out in the harbor. I pulled
out my field glasses and took look
at the ship, and then the mystery was
made clear. The ship he was point
ing at was the United States man
o.-war Petrol and then the man with
the shifty eye executed a sudden lean
and escaped from the car before his
Wrathful listeners could hop on him
ana macerate him.-Washingto Star.