Show L HK I 3 I l i-I-l r i ii i i j Some Animals J I Have Known r 1 K S M- M H IV A Most lost Faithful Watch atch Do Dog NIXON ON WATERMAN It wis on the Southwest 10 Iowa a frontier mOl more e than sixty years eal sago ago that a dog came to my fathers father's ranch house seemingly looking for a home Although the place already support supported supported ed se seel several el al dogs this stranger was as taken in m and gl glen given en food and shelter blackhair He Heas was as a large dog with curly black han hair and doubtless was v as at least three fourths Newfoundland Ne crossed Std wIth wItha a more mOle savage cavage breed bleed Heas He was as not over ovel demonstrative but his good character chal was as son established It was as by accident that we e dis discovered covel covered ed his IllS sterling qualities as a watch atch dog One daI day da I left m my coat In Ina ina ina a field the trail along which many covered wagons of movers s wel were e passing on their way ay to take tak e up home stead steady in Nebraska and Kansas Not knowing whether hether nohe or not no t he was ae trul truly a watch atch dog I told the th e creature l lying Iving Ing near neal the coat to watch atch It till my return 1 n flouts Houis s afterward It hating ha proved ed inconvenient for me t to return for the coat I remembered I had left it in m cal care e of the dog He was as Heas still absent The night was wa coming on As m my brothel brother on hI his way ay to a dance was as to by pass whey hel I T had l ln n l 1 fl tl e left the coat I asked him to t pIck It and up bring It hIm home wit Ith h lie He located the coat hv wIthout an v trouble and the dog stIll watching It but the latter luttel would not let him a ap plo ch the garment the fact that the dog had gs g hadala been ala a s Just as friendly wIth my broth broth- brother er cr as with Ith me In the end ego I had to t o go togo for foi my colt coit This Thle ledus led us to experiment Ye W e found that the dog when hen placedo placed on o n guard 0 over er an anything would permIt perms t no one e except the one who o so o es ostensIble him to touch it The osten sIble 0 owner ner of the coat could the dog take the ap garment garmen t hand It to some one else who ho m in turn tur n would place It m in n care of oF the when hen dowhen the former do dog dog g likewise 0 owner ner would like wise wIe m in turn be kept from approach ing it Whoever set er the th beast t to w tow tw itch over the coatas coat was as the who ho only one on e could leCO er it No amount of f o coaxing on the part of the othe other members r of the famIly would enable e them to cajole the dog into lettin lettIng eg an anyone one have ha It other than g who ho placed him the one on e m in charge of It Aa Ac A S a faithful watch dog he heas was as a star sta r but one had to hold the correct ke Jey Y to the sItuatIOn or his Ius or ins goods be could not no t obtained any more than tn hIs one can ca n get linen at a n Chinese laundr laundry y without the correct corl other othel half of th the e laundry slip |