Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1909-07-23

IES0A0.tA08 OO8 OV0ESVu0I0S <A1lO 903b L. VI
the hay. for he knew she was study.
ing deviltry. The hog ran towards
the house with the dog hanging t.
one ear, and tried to- pass between
the ladder and the house, but there
was no room and IN the fall Dave goi
an arm broken and hurt internally,
which lasted him eternally, and he
always thought if the dog had not
been after her that she would have
killed HIM, and Dave may have been
right in his belief
There is no living animal on earth
so obedient to man as the well-trained
dog. A well trained dog would starve
to death IN a butcher shop, and the
shop full of all kinds of meat, II the
dogs master was present and forbid
his eating. I doubt it a human being
would be SO devoted to a brother or a
father
4 1t there had been a faithful dog
with Rose Litka she would not have
persisted in the woods of Morrill,, with
persistent men hunting for days for
her. A faithful dog will not desert
his master when lost, but he will desert
anything but his master. Back in
the eighties Miss Anna Cobott came to
my house in the middle Of the night
and asked me to 70 and find her
brother, Frank, and Joe Sloble of
Alberta, who were lost. I asked her
IN what direction they had gone be.
fore getting lost. She said towards
Rum River looking for cattle. I told
her to take no trouble about them as
I would find where they crossed the
river and trail them, but that could
do nothing until daylight. She said
there was dog with them but he had
got back home In the fore part of the
night. 1 knew the dog was young, or
that he did not love the boys. and as
yet have not found out which of the
two it was. but guess it was a
sprink of both. started out in time
to get to Rum River by daylight and
found the boys and followed the river
to its head. l found them and took
them to where they were acquainted,
aid started to digging potatoes. I had
not worked long until intuition told
me some one else was lost and my
duty was to hunt them. I went east
through the now township OF Lakin,
Morrison county. could hear hollow
ing and went in that direction, and
found the old gentlemen Cobott and
Daily, the fathers of the boys. They
had been in the woods all night and
were sorry looking pair. Their
clothes were torn and their flesh
lacerated in several places. When I
told them the boys were at home their
eyes filled with tears of thankfulness
to me. But the dog. were was he?
There were bears in the woods them
days and he may have been afraid Of
them, for the boys were not armed.
The boys said he howled and howled
and he howled.. and Jagged way be-
hind, and then he howled no more. IT
there Is happy hunting ground be-
yond this world tor dogs I think that
dog will turn back before he gets
through to 1T.
| knew a remarkable dog in the
state of Illinois back IN the sixties.
This dog was of the Newfoundland
variety. He belonged to q lady who
was remarkable. She was born blind,
and her face where her eyes should
have been was smooth. In other words
she had no eyes. She was a fortune
teller, and there are people yet alive
there who had great faith in her
ability to tell correctly the past OF
future. She lived in the city of
Salem on thickly settled. street,
where one hundred or more different
individuals passed daily. This New.
foundland's business was to open the
gate and door for all people who went
there to get their fortunes told. II
was said and generally believed that
the dog would never open the gate un.
less the person who was approaching
the gate intended to go in. I remem.
/ her he Qnaned the uafa for ma