Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-30
Daily !ShOTf Story
" You Can Ask Blood
az CHARLES McGUIRK

i blooded creature. II you know
exactly what kind flows in the
creatures veins. That's why you
can't expect TO ask anything oi
human beings who are supposed
10 be aristocrats. You can never
tell how they got 70 be that way
4 A lot of sristocratS sold their
women 10 kings and that made.
them dukes or something. a LOT.
of them stole so much money that
they could buy titles A lot oi
people you wouldn't speak to on
The street. had the gift of making
money and the first thing you
knew they were Lord or Lady.
Something or Mr.. and Mrs. Big in.
your home town.
The only way 10 find an aristo-
crat is by throwing him into a
war. If he comes out of II leading
men, thens he's a fine human ami
NAL, no matter what these civil
lied people" tell you. War makes
men or wipes them out And the
top warriors are the best men OF
their time, and don't you forget II 4
But you can't even bet on war
riors turning out men as good as
themselves because back of them
might be long line Of towards
and crooks-and just as bad on the
ladies. or what they call the dis
taft. side. You see what | mean?
With animals it's different. With
animals you got something if you
got a pedigree Take a horse
whose ancestors have been in the
stud book for say 100 years, them
you can pretty near dope out how
its going to act on the track-al-
Though not always
And take a dog that's been reg
istered with the Kennel Club, you
got the same thing. You got Sc
lected blood. You got an animal
that people knew about years be-
fore IL was born.
Now / had dog once l called
Artie back along about 40 years
ago. He wasn't what you'd call
thoroughbred and yet he was a
thoroughbred on both sides of his
house.
He was half Llewelyn and half
English setter. And for my
money, he proved up twice the
thoroughbred he'd of been if het
was all Llewelyn or all English
setter.
WILL YOU KEEP HIM:
Artie, I'll never forget him as
long as I live. He wasn't my dog.
He never was. But ] raised him
and trained him and / missed
him like one of my own when the
time come for us to part.
II was funny how got Arte.
A fellow named Minnegerode, a
friend of mine, was leaving Tono-
nah where we were both miners,
for a visit to his folks in New Jer-
sey. So he came to me and he
says:
"John, I got a puppy that was
given to me by one Of them Eng
Hshmen up on the hill. His set !
ter got out at the wrong time
and she got mixed up with n
LIeweIyn and he's ashamed Of
n. got to go home 10 visit my
folks. Would you keep IL for
me till I come back"
"Sure I will, Harry" l says.
sHow long will you be gomez"
"Maybe six weeks" he says,
sand maybe two months"
s'Well," 1 says, "have a good
time. I'll walk up TO your
place and get II right now.
What is IL, a boy or n girl:"
Its n boy" Harry says, "and
he's purity as a picture"
And he was. He was red and
like a soft fur ball with bright
shoe-button eyes and little tail
on him that was never still. II
stuck him under my coat because
1t was a cold day and / walked
home with him and dumped him
on the floor.
Well, sir, them two kids of mine,
Billy and Alec. went near crazy.
Bill was 4 and Alec was 2 and they
made a dive at him that would
have scared the whey out of
puppy that there was any scare
in. But there wasn't none in
Artie. He just braced himself on
his four legs and growled till he
scared the two kids
So they went after him gentle
and the first thing you know the
three of them was rolling all over
the floor. I didn't know which
one of the boys named him Artie
and / don't know where he got
the name. But Artie il was after
that first evening.
Artie grew up showing both
breeds-and nothing else. He had