Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-04

TRED GLADE had the floor. The
II tanners had been spinning their
"A best, and with several good ones in
front of him Fred was forced to go some
to keep in the game at ALL He hitched up
his chair, gave a final cough and began.
Now, you fellows have been making up
most of your stuff" said Fred, "but this
that I'm going to tell you is straight dope.
OF course 1t seems sort of fishy, but as
saw 1t myself there is good money in
my pocket to bet that it happened.
II was spending my vacation down in
Missouri and hooked up with my uncle
and some other fellows in a little excur-
sion down the Arkansas river. We had
q nice camp in some good country, and
everything was lovely.
81 don't want to keep you fellows walt
ing for the real story, so will cut this
short and tell what I saw. One day,
when the rest of the party was out hunt
ing, I went down to the river for BATH
Just as l arrived at the bank 1 looked out
in the water and saw a hog floundering
around trying to get to shore.
Being gentle hearted I began to take
off my clothes with an idea of rescuing
the poor animal, when a whole drove of
hogs tore through the woods in answer
to the call of their companion in distress.
I stopped to see what they would do, and
what do you suppose happened?' Glade
looked around the bunch, but the silence
was thick enough to be cut with q dull
knife. They were all stumped
''Well, gentlemen" proceeded Fred, as
he blew a cloud of smoke in the air,
chose hogs which seemed to be under the
leadership of one big, fat fellow, who
directed their actions by a series of
grunts, didn't do a thing but form them
ifa tnty
tails in one anothers mouths, and in this
way the string reached clear out into
midstream, where the pig at the end of
the bunch caught the tail of the drowning
hog in his mouth; and thus" concluded
Glade, ''was effected the most complete
animal rescue it has ever been my pleas
ure to hear Of"
Stone Tells Story
When Glade finished a deep and dark
silence fell upon the group of players,
which was finally broken by Stone, that
prince of batsmen, and who, from his own
account, is also a student of nature. Said
Stone:
"Yes, there are indeed many supposedly
incredible things happening among the
lower walks of animal life that when told
of by persons who have witnessed THESE
same things with their own eyes cause the
Although" continued Stone as he looked
ixedly in the direction of the serene Mr.
Glade, there are no doubt many nature
takers in existence.
But. anyway" proceeded the heavy
hitting outfielder, 'I want to tell you
little nature story concerning dog useo
to own and If any one doubts It's trutf
it can easily be proven, If only in the In
terest of science.
the
most intelligent animal 1 ever heard OF
and to show this will tell you of an IN
stance which 1 think will bear me out.
zone day l took my dog out walking
and when we had gone only few BLOCKS
a tremendous st. Bernard animal jumped
on nv pet and gave him a rolling In the
nude OF course, l went to the assistance
of my dog, and when l mad cnaseo tne
other brute away, what was my astonisn-
ment to find that my dog was running
RAPIDLY back in the direction of my nome
with his head cooked up at the buildings
along the way, just as IL he We're reading
the business signs on the houses.
"Well, / took after that animal as fast
as I could and / had almost caught up
even with him when 1 saw him dart into
an office building.
"Wondering what he could want III
such a place 1 followed him and was Just
in time to see that dog bolt into ponce
magistrates office and without hesltat-
ing moment that dog of mine leaped
upon the table and from among the papers
scattered about he selected a blank war
rant. and catching hold of 1t with his
teeth he presented it to the magistrate,
and then, with the tears rolling down MS
little cheeks, he started pulling the OF
ficial toward the door.
"Of course. I Immediately tumbled 10
the fact" concluded Stone, that my dog
wanted to have the big dog committed for
assault But wouldn't you call that rare
Intelligence on his part?' queried the big
outfielder as he looked complacently at
the awed faces of his brother ball tossers,
while the silence that succeeded stone $
nature story was something awful until
# was at last broken by Ollie Pickering.
Pickering's Contribution
s"These nature stories," began Ollle,
"must seem to anybody who isn't stu
dant on what happens on the outside. like
Glade. Stone and myself, as well as
Teddy. Willie Long, Jack Burroughs ana
eonoe others in our class, little strange.
Though student that / am" continued
Ollia at have heard nature stories that
have appeared to me to be trihe out OF
the running" Here he paused and looked
hard at both Glade and Stone, but both
these gentlemen appeared to be sereneV
unconscious of the outfielder's gaze
"But nature story which l know to
ha correct in every particular" went on
pickering, occurred on the farm OF an
old granduncle of mine, who, though he
was farmer by occupation was
preacher by preference.
This .granduncle was the most upr.sn'
man 7 ever knew, and he had such nor
ror of an untruth that to this day the
,,,enorv of that dear good soul has pre-
,,anted me from ever having been guilty
of a falsehood." Here Pickering stopped
&c enough to wipe a couple of tears out
of Off his eyes, and then he again proceeded
On his way; and this is the story he told:
"My granduncle;" said Pickering,
"owned a large farm in the western part
of Indiana, and year after year ne useo