Lower coast gazette., 1913-08-02
.uIDCINC THE MAN BY HIS
DOGS

One way to tell a mans character
is nv the company he keeps; anotner
wav to tell a mans character is by
the dog he keeps. A dog invarlaDiy
crows to be like it's master In dlsposi
ton. and there is something about the
certain breed of dogs which a man pre-
fers that gives an insight to his char
acter. Show me a man that keeps a
ward full Of l~ong.eared hounds that
bay YOU with a "deep-mouth welcome
when YOU ride up, and / will show you
, q man that never turns a stranger from
his door hungry. And though he may
) sometimes be slow to pay his debts, ne
never pleads limitation on a note. |
: could go on with this character read
ing until every breed Of dog in exist
= ence had been exhasuted, but Ia BE
hound to step on somebody's toes.
: Every true woman will lie for her
i child. and every true man will lie 1or
y his dog. In one respect dogs and chill
dren are very much alike; when we Try
y TO show them off they always disgrace
us.
% went out hunting once with a llttl'
9 doctor who owned a pointer dog who's
y. good qualities he had praised extraVa
y gantly. I felt sorry for the docto
y from the beginning Of the hunt to IN
end. But l found him to be a tru
~ ~ man. for he lied for his dog to tn
~ very last. That pointer bitch Ignore
~ the commands Of her master entlrel'
'ou She stood rabbits, lizards, gopher
ny mice and everything except quail, an
she vas as careless about the birds 9
EN- if she had never scented one before
her life.
Nnaly the detected doctor separate
from me, and his dog followed hi
He was on one side Of a ravine and
= was on the other, and ! happened
~ be looking at him when ne walk
sns right square into q big covey OF qua
w iiu jerhrd his gun from his shouiu
and fired twice. I crossed ver
where he was, and this was the II
thing he said: "You ought to ha
aen seen my dog; she sure made a pre-
n0' stand" His dog wasn't within a h
~ dred yards Of the birds when II
few up.
. You a teach a smart dog aim
wv anything, but you can explain notn
o." to him. An old bear hunter once {
0veu me a pathetic story that bears out !
statement.
trip when / first came to Texas" $
deal the old pioneer, there were a 6
lntry many bear in the swamp around
we clearing. l had an old bear-ho
many named Spot, and with the help OF
right Spot I killed a bear every now
$ we then. but there was an old he-bear
ID us seemed to hold a charmed life.
would sometimes stole my corn In d
open daylight, and then made a G
Janet getaway in spite Of all that me
take Old Spot could do. Old Spot
[ously learned the scent Of this bear, and
) met hungry for his blood.
t car early one foggy morning .
guage the cornstalks rafting, and !
study that the cd bear was making q
deal / directed Old Spot to the corr Il
myself and then took down my old +
es Of rifle and ran down to the lower G.
more of the clearing, to where a path Il
d and into the swamp. I heard Old
q help open up, and before could stead
nerica, self here come the bear right dow
power path, with Old Spot not forty
behind. I tok aim and pulled the
dea all ger and my rifle snapped. Tn
like a had dampened the powder IN the
Nv own THE old bear didn't even drop his
ing ears. When Old spot got u
! spend I was standing he stopped ar
that / down on his hunkers and looked
to me to my face as if to say. why on
learn. didn't you shoot? would nave
t patri- my best horse if / could nave exp
"but it to him, but ] coudn't make n
derstand, and from that day o
u show Spot would never run another b
, think IT'S not often that a dog LEI
0 il you trick Of his own, but ! once M