The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-07-31
THE TALE OF A DOG.
ATRU1hFuL NARRATIVE OF CANINE
TENACITY AND SAGACITY.
A. the Story of the Feat Was Related
by II PREACHER Who Was a Party TO
the 1ueident No Further Testimony
Ii yeceSeaPy.

A >. certain Nashville statesman is
abou, one Of the best story tellers in
Tennessee, and his repertoire includes a
bot of good ones, fish and otherwise.
On the truthfulncss OF some he will!
stake his reputation for ycracity, but
he tells one which he always rretiXes
With the statement that it was told him
by u minister Of the gospel, DR.. Card
well. who will be remembered here by
the older Inhabitants as the assistant
of In. Edgar Of revcred memory, who
was pastor Of the First Presbyteria.,,:
church during she latter years of Cen
eral Andrew Jackson's life and attend
ed the old hero in his last Illness The
story teller said:
CDR. Bardwell used to visit my ia
theirs house when was boy, and the
story am about to tell you was relat-
ed to me or the occasion Of one Of these
visits. We were out on the yeranda
smoking one evening after supper. The
doctor was fond Of dogs and was a
pretty good sportsman and naturally
the conversation turned on this subject.
"tSpeaking Of dogs said DR.. Bard
well, reminds me Of q dog which be-
1onged to a friend Of mine in MISSISSIPPI
pi. had been invited to hold services
at church near this friends house
and wrote him to meet me ut the sta
ton, some six miles from his house, on
the Saturday afternoon before Sunday,
the day Of the appointment.
"'He was on time with horses, and
we started to his home. 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 1t.
'"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.
4 asked him to make him perform q
trick. lie got down from his horse,
called the dog and, taking out his peck
etbook. held 1t to the dogs nose. He
then took out silver half dollar and,
raised up q large rock and put the mon.
ey under 1t. 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.
"'The dog, without the least hesita.
friend explained. as the rock was heavy
the dog would be unable to turn II
over, SO would have to scratch under II
to reach the piece Of money, and he
would not probably get home before we
reached there, 1t 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
my friend opened the door, and the dog
rushed in dragging with him pair OF
pantaloons, which he dropped ON the
door
"'Of course we were both mystifed
but had not long to wait All explana
ton, for shortly afterward man VIII.
lived several miles from my friend.
house rode up on a mule and inquired
II a dog with pair Of pantaloons ii
his mouth had come into the house
The dog Mt this moment came out OF
the porch, and the man said. "Why
there's the dog now"
My friend told his caller that tn
dog had really brought pair of panta
looms home with him, but he did no
understand It himself.
The man said that late in the after
noon the day before he found the do
scratching under large rock near tn
road and, thinking he was after a raj
bit, stopped and lifted the rock up, ant
to his surprise, found a half dollar o
the underside.
ale put the money in his pocket, an
the dog followed him home. The do
appeared to be friendly, and the ma
petted him and gave him his suppe
AZ NIGHT when the family retired til