The Alaska citizen., 1915-11-22

N SndTTllCO IItIs bub It ttdIS dS Life. many lives as the pro
 verbal cat if the tae of his wanderings could be entirely told. He has been stolen. drowned, a runaway and several other things that could happen to perfectly good fox terrier pup, and 1t was to his master, Louis Brigel former ly of Fairbanks, but now a resident of Brooks. after a separation of sev- eral months.
 Snip has very loving dispos - tion, as is evidenced by the close attention he pays to his master when they are together. Therefore when the latter stampeded to the Tolovana last summer. Snip was along.
 It Is habit of Ships to sleep in the same bed with his master whenever the opportunity presents itself Consequently he 'bunked"
 
 on which his master went to the Tolovarl, CT alongside of the sleep ing quarters of his master One night the canvas broke-but therein lies the story.
 One morning while the boat was proceeding up the Tolovana river, Snip was missed. Search for him was made everywhere, with the re suit that it was soon discovered that the canvas side of the boat next to where the dog had slept the night before was ripped. A cor rect surmise of the dogs disap pearance was then made, and, al though the banks of the river were anXiously watched, with the hope that the dog had followed the boat after he fell off and swan ashore Snip did not appear.
 Shortly afterward it was learned that a fox terrier was one of the canine inhabitants of an Indian vil- lage rear Minto This fact was remarked upon as curious. owing to the fact that dogs around Indian towns are usually large enough to work. In the meantime the owner of Snip had offered a reward of s25 to the person who would find him
 The reward was learned of by one of the signal corps men sta toned at Minto. Having learned of the disappearance of Snip, he put two and two together, went to the Indian camp and got the dog with but little trouble. There he learned that the Indians had found the dcy on the banks of the Tolo Nana
 In the course of time Snip was shipped back to Fairbanks from Minto, coming up on the Hot Springs stage His story, however, was not known until he reached the Tolo- vana, having been taken out to Brooks by w, F, Whitely.
 There he and his master were reunited It cost MT. Brigel a re. ward of s25 to get his dog back, on top Of about s5 freight and express charges, but he says that Snip is cheap at twice the price.
 lt's Hard Did you ever make up To Break your mind to go any Away. where and then dread
 for the date you had set for departure to roll around? Did you ever get ready to take your trip and then when the time set to leave came put off said depar ture from your haunts by first one excuse and then another, always hoping that something would turn up to keep you at home?
 First comes the getting ready. All Is hurry and hustle and rustic at first until everything Is prepared and packed, Then some other need ed article is thought of and the nee essary unpacking and repacking of the outfit takes another day.
 Then-there Is the mail from the Outside It is sure to contain some thing of interest for you, so you delay your departure for another day or two on that account.
 In the meantime, you meet some friend on the bridge or the street and he exclaims, Why! Amt you left town yet? I thought you was gone a week ago" You say no, and that you "are goin' to get away tamara mornin' sure" But when tomorrow" comes there is very ire quently an entirely new excuse probably a matter of business which comes up at the last minute and which positively must be attended to.
 You meet your friend again He asks the same questions concerning your departure. You give the same answers and 1t is not until then that your friend gets wise" to the fact that there may be come other and better reason for your lay over in town than this "gettin' ready stuff.
 Well-it's hard to break away