The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1906-05-22
TALES ALL True
GOOD Ones, TOO
Being a Chronicle of Interesting
Things About Horses, Dogs,
Cats, Birds and TOadS.

CdtS, 6'raS diio l0dnS.
Carrying his left ear in his
right hand, Ben Winnie, driver
of the Briggs House bus in Car
son City, applied recently for
treatment at the office OF DR..
Van Radesky. Twenty. seven
stitches we're needed to restore
the member i'll place. Winnie,
it appears, has a habit OF wagging
his ears while slumhering. He
was doing the other day when
the Briggs House cat, Il hand
some Maltese, mistaking his left
ear for a mouse, pounced upon
the tapping appendagc and
chewod it clear of its mooring
before Winnie was fairly awake.
All horses have their fancies,
and know perfectly we'll with
whom they have to deal, " says a
writer in a Boston publication,
Il am just now exercised with
Whitefeet, a sorrel mare which
| bought young, and has lately
come out of the hands Of pro-
fessional breakers with several
tiresome whims. One day found
her in the drawing room. TO
reach it she had walked into he
house by the front entrance, and
after travelling Il corridor some
forty feet long, had passed
through three doorWays. There
she was examining furniture,
smelling knick- knacks, and look
ing out Of the window. | expect
ed a scene, for she was as good
as wild, having never been ac-
quainted with saddle, bride, or
shoe. Yet she behaved like a
young lady; not only walking
daintily about amodg the chairs
and tables without damage, but
exhibiting solitary self-conseious-
ness, especially when she came
to look at herself in mirror.
This she did with much interest,
getting first one side of her face
and then the other into the most
appreciable position. 1t seemed
to me that she smiled. When
she had gazed her fill, ! said,
Now come out, my dear" Then
she put her warm, velyety nose
into the hollow of my uplifted
hand, and followed me, as | walk
ed backward like a courtier, into
the paddock
When travelling in the forest
Of Guiana and paraguay, it is not
uncommon to meet with bird
whose music greatly resembles
that of an Angelus bell when
heard from a distance. The Span
iards call this singular bird bell
ringer, though it may be still
more appropriately designated as
the Angclus bird, for, like the
Angelus bell, it is heard three
times Il day, morning, noon and
night.
The story Of Il dogs affection
for its little mistress is told by
the officers of he steamship Co
lumbia, plying between New
York and Glasgow. Among the
passengers on tho steamer on
recent trip from Scotland were
Andrew Mcdonald and his daugh-
ter, Mary, four years old.
The little girl two collic dogs,
Daisy and Ben, accompanied
them, and until she was taken i'll
Mary spent all her waking hours
with her pets.
When the storm rose, the child
became violently sea-sick and
died. The dogs missed their lit
tie mistress and whined constant
ly until they were taken to the
cabin where preparations were
being made to bury the child's
body at sea. When the body
was taken on deck the dogs were
permitted to follow, and during
the reading Of the funeral service
the collies tugged at the lcashes
which held them.
AS the child's body was lifted
to the rail and slid overheard,
Daisy broke from the man who
held her and leaped into the sea
just as the body of her little mis-
tress disappeared beneath the
waves. The dog was drowned.