Show I Gratitude of a Stray Dog Collie Finds Missing Heifers and Sheep for Farmer In Return for Kindness Jacksonville N J Kindness extended ex-tended to a stray collie dog by Ferris MacWIlllams in this village brought Its reward when the dog recovered for MacWIlllams two lielfern and 11 sheep which had strayed off In the blinding snowstorm long before daylight day-light and were stalled in a huge drift a mile from home and on the road to Pompton lIes the smartest dog In northern Now Jersey MacWilliams said to a neighbor Ho will bring the sheep and cattle In at night and do everything every-thing connected with It except put up the bars Ho tried to do that one day I went out to the barnyard and saw him tugging away at one end of a fence rail and trying to lift It In place When he saw me he barked for me to come and help him The heifers and sheep were put in a field near the MacWilliams home When MacWilllams awoke blinding snowstorm was raging so ho called his sons to go out with him to find the animals The heifers and the sheep were not In the field and no trace of them could be found The quest was abandoned until after break fast On tho second trip Santa the collie went out with the men Chilled to the hone by the bitter cold MacWillIams and his sons returned disheartened They discovered however how-ever that Santa had not returned with them An hour afterward he appeared I barking delightedly Tho kitchen door was opened but he refused to enter Seizing MacWillIams by the trousers leg he tried to pull him away fro m tho house That was hint enough foi the farmer Ho told his son Leonard to go with tho dog It was a cold and wearisome trip but at the end of It tho missing animals were found Two wagons were pressed Into uso and the heifers and the sheep soon were under shelter |