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Show CANINE FIDELITY There is always more or less pathos connected with the sickness or injury of persons who are unknown and unable to tell who they are, but there is an unusual amount of pitifulness about the man who was injured on the Pittsburgh Southern Road and taken to the Homoeopathic Hospital. He is an intelligent, honest-looking fellow, scrupulously clean in his person and tidy in his dress, and he seems to have been some kind of a mechanic, a carpenter or something of the kind, as the handle of a screw-driver or chisel was found in his pocket. As the morning passenger train was going over the trestle on the Pittsburgh Southern, about eleven miles from the city, the man was seen lying on the ground thirty-five feet below, and it appeared at once that he was injured. The train was stopped, and the man was taken on and sent to the hospital, as stated. It is probable that the poor fellow fell through the trestle during the night, and lay unconscious till he was found. He was accompanied by a fine pointer dog who seemed greatly attached to his owner. On the bank around the poor bruised stranger, the soft earth showed the footprints of the dog who had apparently tried to rouse his master or to attract attention. Finding that the hand that was wont to fondle him was strangely quiet, and that no response was mad to him, the dog crept closely up to his master and lovingly stretched out his neck and laid his head lightly on the unconscious man's cheek, as though he would protect him. It was in this position that the dumb guardian was discovered by those who came to aid his master. As the men approached from the train, the dog watched them keenly with his large dark eyes, and when they bent down to learn the extent and nature of the man's injuries the pointer wagged his tail as though to thank them for their assistance, and then he uttered several whining, low-toned barks as if he would tell them that the man he loved was sorely hurt. When the men returned to the train to dog followed them, and he is now carefully treated in one of the rooms at the railroad depot. --Pittsburgh Commercial. |