Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1913-07-25
A Dog-Fisll Story.

L. w, Wallace has been receiving
many compliments this week induced
from recent wonderful feat per-
formed by his pet bull dog, ANDY s
.Wally" IS he is Familiarity called
I by few free spoken fellows like
Mart Hirzel and ''Smithy'', has been
doing a little guiding this season as .
break in the monotony of being guild
ed, and they say that local guides are
getting some valuable object lessons
relative to the system of guiding that
results in tips of diamond rings, au-
tomobiles, etc, that are frequently be-
slowed upon those who satisfactory
" serve them, by the wealthy men
and women who annually spend their
summers at and around Eagle River.
Last Saturday, "Wally" had a st.
Louis gentleman out for a days fish
ing, and ANDY" OF course went
along to see the fun. They fished
with fair success until about 1000 A.
NJ, when it began to get pretty sui
try and they decided to go to land
and walk across to Jim Logg's place
and have their Thermos bottles re-
plenlshed with fresh buttermilk,
"Wally" happening to know that it
was churning day for Mrs. Logg.
They anchored the boat TO near
by tree and lashing the poles togeth-
er left the lines in the water for luck,
bidding ANDY" to remain on guard
until their return. They got back to
the boat in about half an hour to dis
cover both rods and lines gone and
ANDY" also missing. They called
and whistled several minutes with
out result until after one whistle
call, they heard very hoarse bark
from seward and looking in that di-
rection beheld Andy pulling
bravely for the boat, bearing in his
mouth the missing rods. AS the dog
appeared to be nearly exhausted, Mr..
Wallace jumped into the boat and
pulled the pIucky little fellow out of
the water, then reaching for the
tackle was surprised to find consider
able weight attached thereto, that on
closer inspection proved to be two nice
pike, one on each hook. The ST.
Louis man Immediately delared that
it was 'sAndy's'' turn to sHaye some
thing on him, so they started for
home and a big chunk of beef steak.
On the way up river, they stopped
at the farm house of L. M. Grover, a
Milwaukee man who is opening up a
farm fronting on Catfish lake, and
who derives a nice income from the
sale of milk, butter, eggs, ETC., to the
nearby summer homes and resorts.
Mr.. Grover, upon request kindly
weighed the fish on his scales which he
said were absolutely correct, being in
fact the same ones that he sells but
ter from. The largest fish weighed
exactly 75lbs, the smaller one 53lbs.
The commonly accepted theory for
the strange feat seems to be that
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same instant and owing to their size
we're able TO swim away with the rods,
and chat ANDY" true to bull dog
nature, ever vigilant of his masters
interests, plunged in after them and
was lowed out into the lake for some
distance before the fish succumbed
sufficiently SO that he could return
with them to the boat. However it
happened, he has been kept busy all
week wagging his tail in response to
the many compliments showered up
on him. "Wally'' is considerably
elated over the performance and ev-
en- threatens to shoot the first man
who dares to make an offer to buy
Andy"
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