Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-18

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do what?' l asked with pent-up curl
osity What do you mean? Show Mr..
Dixon what your dog can do, Buddie,'
says Calder, and Buddie says all right.
And there started the most wonderful
performance l ever dreamed of. IL L
hadn't seen it would never have be-
lieved it..
Wonderful Canine Hypnotizer
There was great, big Light Brahma
rooster in the garden and, pointing to 1t,
Buddie says, There, Mp The dog
strolled slowly and silently toward the
rooster with his eyes fixed on 1t In IN
tense gaze. Then he slowly settled down
and raised one paw and pointed it at the
rooster, and the fowl stood still and then
all of sudden turned back soinersault.
Then he compelled it to run up and down
a potato row and moo like heifer Then
he made il choo- -choo like an engine, and
then had ii jump up on a board and dance
a sailors hornpipe.
"You see, the dog is a natural born
hypnotiat and he had that chicken under
such perfect control that he could make
it do anything. The dog did number of
wonderful tricks like that and | was
satisfied.
THE next day we took Buddie and his
dog down to the pool where the big fish
were and Buddie told the dog to get the
fish Nip Just walked along the bank till
| he got right over the fish and then stood
and gazed into the water fiXedly for
| few minutes. then he raised his paw and
| pointed it right at the fish. The big steel
| head tried TO swim away at first and then
| darted back and forth in the pool, as If
frantic. But finally he rose to the top of
the water and came right up to the boat
and opened his mouth.
'Buddie said, 1T wants you to put the
I "a. 4 IA. 4 l.t
| hook into the trouts open mouth, and
then it began to play around in the pool
like fury giving me the greatest time of
my life, until | thought he was going to
get away. Then Buddie spoke to the dog
| again and he fixed his eyes on that fish,
and in a moment more the trout came
right up to the boat and jumped in.
| Worse Than Ever
'It was the biggest trout I ever saw
1t weighed GO pounds and II ounces on it's
own scales and / veritably believe 1t is
the biggest steelhead trout ever seen by
man. We got the other one the same
| way The dog just hypnotized 1T, and 1t
too jumped in the boat after giving Cald-
er lot of fun. 1t was few ounces
smaller than the one / got, but it was a
monster all right.
| 1--WE had numerous other adventures in
| fishing with that dog but what L have
| told you is fair sample of all that hap
pened to us and it's no use to take up any
more time
Dixon Certainly Earned It
! The award committee in a dazed con-
dition thought so too. and after the be-
stowal of a medal of the first class on
Diton. Harry White. who had been all
| impatience durnig the recital, was given
| a chance to tell his story
! 'rralll about fishing with that dog" re-
marked the chief gaff wielder, reminds
me of little adventure had few days
ago with dogfsh. You know / took
Lee and Cleveland Heath and Fred Hurt
out trolling one day in the Eva, The
boys had wanted to go for a long time
and we fixed it up one day and went
| out | ran the boat back and forth for
several miles outside of the breakwater
and the boys had great fun catching skip
jacks, barracuda. bonita and yellow tail.
1--WE had a pretty fair boatload of fine
fish not counting the skipjacks and bon
ita when tried my hand at it. hooked
something. I didn't know what 1t was
until 1 had brought it to the top of
the water. and there was series of
hows and barks that told me at once
that 1 had hooked big dogfsh.
Dogfish GrowIs
SAY. that fish was mad 1t just
frothed at the mouth and gnashed It's
teeth and finally made rush at the boat
and bit hole right through the side of
the boat and / don't mind telling you 1T
got about a foot square of my trousers
where l usually sit down on them. |
got the darn fish in, though, and killed 1t
by shooting it twice. through the. head
and then we put for shore. You see, 1t
had scratched me little and | always
was afraid of hydrophobia and l was
just sure of what brand of hydrophobia
a dogfish carried around with him.
Escaped Hydrophobia
at turned out all right. though. 1
wasn't hurt any, but l want to tell you
/ kinder kept my back to people all the
way home and l didn't stand up any
more than could help OF course, we've
got to put the Eva on the ways to repair
her. for the last time 1 went down to see
her she was full of water which had
leaked in through the holes made by that
dogfish's teeth. The fish, by the way,
tipped the beam at 1011a pounds"
Mr.. White got his medal, and the mem
bers of the club slowly wended their way
homeward studying over the mutabilities
of life.