Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-08-08
NATURE TAKERS.
Ball Players Find Time to Tell a Few
Whoppers.

George Stone vas telling, the other day.
WONDERFUL story OF WONDERFUL noS
Yes, there are indeed many SUPPOSEDLY
Incredible things happening among me
lower wallis. of animal life that when loid
of by persons VINO have Witnessed THESE
same Things with Their own eyes CAUSES
the narrator to be cassed as 4 MAJ azure
faker. Although there are no doupt HiihJ
nature takers in existence a., ,,
but, anyway" proceeded the heaN "
hitting Outtielder, Il want to tel You
little nature story concerning uo5
used to- own, and if any one doubts us
truth it can easily be proven, II only IN
the interest Of science c.o ..r.,. Tho
most intelligent animal l ever heard o.
and to show this | will tell you OF an III
stance which / think will bear me oIt.
'One day I took my dog cut waiNinS,
and when we had gone only rev plo:hS
:. tremendous St Bernard animal jumped
on my pet and gave him rolling III the
mud. OF course l went to the assistance
of INV dog, and, when ] had CHASED the
OF her brute away, what was my astonlSn-
ment to find that my dog WAS running
rapidly back in the direction OF my nome,
with his head cooked Ip at the buildings
along the way. Just as II ne wtre read
mig the business signs on the houses.
We'll, l took after that ANNA! rs fast
as / co:ild, and l bad almost caught UP
even with him when | saw MIN dart into
an office building
Wondering; what lie could want in such
a place, l followed him and was .Hlst n
time to see that dog bolt into n police
magistrates office. and, without Hesltt,t-
ing a moment, rhat dog of mine loaped
upon the table and from among the pa
p"rs scattered about ne selected 4 bian:i
warrant. ANA, catching hold Of it with
his teeth, he presented II 10 tie nISis-
trate, and then. with the tears ROLLINS
down his little checks. he started pulling
the official toward the door.
80: course. | immediately tulnhlcd to
the fact" concluded Stone, that my dog
II, ,N-p he mis- dog commit ,t
for assault. But wouldn't YOU call that
rare intelligence on his part?' qurried the
big outfiel1er as he looked complacentlv
ii the awed faces of his brother ball
tossers. while the silence that s'lcc' eded
stones nature story was something
awful.
"Thesc nature Stories" sail Ollie
Pickering recently, must seem tc
anybody who isn't a student or
What sappens % on mt the outside Vel, like k
Teddy. Willie Long. Jack Eur,ouahs and
some others in our class, httle strange
Though student that l am" continued
Ollie, Il have heard natur" stories that
have appeared TO me to be title out
| of the running.
"Gut a nature story, which | l;now to
he correct in every PARTICULAR went or
Pickering. occurred on thr farm OF af
old grdnd-uncle of mine, vino, though he
was a farmer by occupation, was d
preacher Nv preference.
This grandunclc was the most upright
man ever knew and he had such a nor
ror of al, urtruth that to this day the
neriory of that dear good soul has pro
vented rae from ever having been guilty
of a falsehood" Here Pickering stopped
long enough to wipe n couple of tears out
Of his ewes: and then he again proceeded
| on his way; ard this is the story he
told:
"My granduncle.' said Pic!lcrin"
| owned 4 large farm in the western part
| of Indiana. and wear after year he usec
| to suffer heavily on account of the in
roads the vast armies of blackbirdS
would make on his wheat and oat crop:
These friends OF Ernest Seton-Thomp'
| son used 10 grow fat on unc'S nourisliina
crops. and financially speaking. also to
nut that gentle soul to the bad: for whnr
these rnarauding birds had plucked the
ripe scnd from the stalks il of course
| ruined tho crops for that season.
After irving every remedy to cave ms
| crops. INC, Mt last acted upon the suS-