San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-14

! forequarters with all her muscular
might.
Lad was hurled free, his weakened
jaws failing TO withstand such yank.
Over and over he rolled, to one side,
the SOW charging after him. She had
lost all interest in attaching the Mis-
tress. Her flaming little brain now
| held no thought except to kill and man.
| gle the dog that had hurt her snOut so
cruelty. And she rushed at him, the
tushcs glinting from under her up
curled and bleeding lips.
But the collie, for all his years and
urwieldineSs, was still collie. And,
by the time he stopped rolling, he was
scrambling 10 his feet. Shrinking
quickly 10 one side, as the SOW bore
down upon him, he eluded her rush by
the narrowest of margins and, swapping
furiously, caught her by the ear.
Now, more than once, in other trays,
| Lad had subdued and scared trespass-
| ing pigs by this hold. But in those
days his teeth had been keen and his
| jaws strong enough TO crack beef
bone. Moreover, the pigs on which he
! he'd used it to such effect were not
| drunk WIN luC luSl VI hllllhS'
The SOW sauealed atrcsh with pain,
and once more braced herself and shook
| her head with all her might. Again Lad
was flung aside by that shake. this
| time with a fragment of torn car be-
tween his teeth.
As she drove slaveringly at him once
more, Lad swerved and darted in, div
ing for her forelegs. With the collie, as
: with his ancestor, the wolf, this dive
for the leg of an enemy is a favorite
and tremendously effective trick in bat
| tie. Lad found his hold, just above
the right pastern. And he exerted every
atom of his power TO break the bone
or to sever the tendon.
In all the Bibles myriad tragic lines
| there is perhaps none other so min
| itely sad-less for its actual signiti-
canoe than for what it implies TO every
man or woman or animal, soon or late
than that which describes the shorn
Samson going forth in jaunty confidence
to meet the Philistines he so often and
easily had conquered:
He Uiyt not that the Lord was de-
parted from him!"
To all of us, TO whom the doubtful
blessing Of old age is granted, must
I come the black time when we shall es-
say a task which once we could ac-
complish with ease-Only TO find ITS
achievement has passed forever beyond
our waning powers. And so, this day,
was it with Sunnybank Lad.
OF yore, such q grip as he now, Sc
cured would have hamstrung or other
wise MANNED its victim and LETT her wal
| lowing helpless. But the dull teeth
merely barked the legs tough skin. Ana
spasmodic jerk ripped it loose from
| the dogs hold.
Lad barely had time to spring ASIDE
TO dodge the wheeling SOW. lie was
PAINTING heavily. His wounds were hurt
| ing and weakening him. His wind was
gone. His heart was doing auer
things which made him sick and dizzy
| His strength was turning to water.
His courage alone blazed high and I'M
dimmed.
Not once did it occur TO him TO seek
safety in flight. He must have known
the probable outcome. For Lad knew
much. But the great heart did not
| finch at the prospect. Feebly, yet
dauntlessly, he came back to the nope
less battle. The Mistress was IN dan
ger. And he alone could help.
No longer able to avoid the rusheS
he met some of them with pathetical-
" useless jaws; going down under
others and rising with ever greater
slowncss and difficulty. The SOW
ravening teeth found a goal, more
than once, in the FURNISHED mahogany