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Show PREDICTED SETTER'S ACTION. Said tho Bog- Would Die and Would Travel Long- Way to Do It. The faithfulness and tho Instinct of dogs were being discussed by several dog lovers In a downtown club several days ago, and a number of good stories wero told of dogs that had been owned by thoso In the party. Ono dog fancier, who has raised dogs and exhibited them In dog shows for years", tells the following atory: "About two years ago I took Frank, my Gordon setter, on a hunting trip up the Monongnhela river I found headquarters Just abovo Rico's Landing, between locks No. C and 7, and for a week had great success suc-cess In shooting wild ducks. Frank was always with me, and always retrieved when I shot ducks in a swamp whero tho wator was dcop. Ho was the most faithful faith-ful and Intelligent animal I ever owned, and I had become very much attached to him. One day when wo got up it was raining. 1 had stayed up lato the night before and. looking out tho window, was rather discouraged dis-couraged with tho prospect of a dav along the rlvor. In a state of indecision I determined de-termined to flip up a coin, the result to docldo .whether to go out shooting or stay at home. This I did. and tho coin, flying from my hand, rolled ovor tho floor and down tho stops to tho first floor where tho family with which r was boardl Ing was at breakfast. My dog Frank was with mo and. on seeing tho coin rolling away, pursued It. Catching It a3 It still rolled, at tho foot of the stairs, ho accidentally acci-dentally swallowed It. ,.".Ht 3Cemed to realize as quickly as I did that this accident might mean serious results to him and, returning to tho room, ho lay down quietly. "The coin he had swallowed was a fiftv-cent fiftv-cent piece. Kor two days ho lay around tho room, getting sicker as the hours passed. I consulted the farmers In tho vicinity and tried several remedies without with-out success Finally I decided that cxer-clso cxer-clso and fresh air would perhaps bring about tho desired results, and I lot Frank out. Ho had not been gone long when one of tho neighbors came In. " 'I gucso you will never sec that dog asruln.' he said. " 'What makeB you think so?' said I not believing his statement. " 'Well, I looked at that dog. and ho Is going to die. I havo owned manv dogs In ray llfo and I know them. Your" dog will go awn as far as ho can and will Ho down nnd die.' "Although 1 had had dogs about me for years, there were some things about them I did not know, and when the old farmer told me this r placed no credence in it But Frank did not come that night, nor the next day. and I got worried. Then I thought of what tho farmer had told me The next day I started out alono to shoot Uucks. Several miles up tho rlvor r crossed tho Monongahola In a skin and wandered back through the country Mounting tho crest of a steep hill, J suddenly sud-denly camo upon a number of clucks In a swamp. J was wlthnl twenty-five feot of them before they saw mo. and before they got away I had emptied both barrels und killed four. Wading Into th water with my long boots and getting tho dead fowl, l started for a point toward my left Just at tho water's edgo lay Frank dead. ' "For miles he had traveled up the river and hnd crossed 11. sick as he was tTp that steep hill ho had gone and reaching the llttlo pond lay down and died The assertion of the old Green county farmer came to me then. The dog knew he was doomed. If not, why should he. In a dv-Ing dv-Ing condition, swim the Monongahohi and wander over the hills, when he could havo returned to the hounc and died peacefully in my room? Pittsburg Gazette |