| Show dumb heroes of the flood the unwritten and heroes of the flood are bob a little spry black horse and jack a biff newfoundland dog they each saved two human lives and their own bob after floating off in his stable got loose attached to his neck was a vary long rope or halter with which he had been tied to keep out of mis chief birst one man seizing this halter was pulled by bob to the shore then as if he khaw what he was about or because the shore was not easy to get up bob went back and about half a milo lower down came out this time with a man on his back this man placed the horse temporarily in the care of the rev dr beale the presbyterian minister who told mo the story As to jack whose acquaintance I 1 did not make but whose achievement is given by an equally reliable authority he was seen to tow out at wood vale a woman who clung to his shaggy mano and on the edge of johnstown ho brought out a baby holding it by its frock i high up as a retriever brings his game jack belonged to some man in humble life who perished I 1 believe I 1 could not hunt him up though my informant knew his whereabouts philadelphia tinier |
