| Show Styx the Batlery Dog I Indianapolis News I Ho wa n fox terrier In the day when foxtorrr were not cu cOmmon as 10 aud ho made hlo appeamne In the battery on morning jUlt wo were hitching up al daylight to resume re-sume the march Interrupted by a nights rest In the vicinity ot 11 mal tOWI In Lullana He attrcted my attntlon by rlnnlng up nndllaelng at myefet a mal Etlel and then backing < ift a little way with every mUlch of his body on tho strclch asking me as pleadingly as I he spoke to throw 11 that he might Imvo the exquisite pleasure ot catching It to be broughl back agaIn nnd tllro No uotle being talen of him he picked up the slick and started with tbe column which waR now movlllg along the road and Into which the battery bat-tery hauled from the roadside wllh the accompaniments of clanking trace chains and rumbling wheel Styx maintained his position oome hero boweell our gun 0rla al ilny refusing lo bo alluied by the dashing caxalry or the sober lnfanlr > ns now and then changes occuned In the column and late In the nftel noon whn w > halltd for tho night he cportfd hlmel nt my particular fire a bo wre on duty n an olorly I He jsked nol for food or caresses bu uttlng down a stick at my feet dc Iuttln elared In hi toxterrler languu thai I woul < l plmse throw that for hIm jut on b woul eonsldor all obligations gallon discharged In full and I threw It Ho brought II back befor It haJ CRrly touched the grounI alld worrld m for more 01 I The nnxt day wo WHe In nctlon The lIony had made n gliant tond In their retroat at a narrow 10 wltere Is i waft tOt dlneult far u to advanr all < l hero the genl ot Stx em Ino grat plaj The No t man a h I called runs holen he limber and the gun v hen i the baltery Is I In action carrjing the > mlle or cartridge from Iho nmunltlon chest to the No mal who placei 1 In tho gun bn No l sends It home with the rummer StyX had jolmsl one of the gun dacllnnte nnd was acting ns a 0 mall ItcceUlni tht cartridge Cror No 0 who took It from the best ho ruslied like lightning to the gun and delivered his burden to tho xpectant nrtllleryn le WI In his clement now Tho lhunder of the gun oul hodl dmwn his shrIek of joy ns he ruhe < l hac k flm hnvlnp do 1ro1 bne < rge tn got anothcr this wa Why omthlnl lke hatnt wo played the game before No ono saw what Vhe battery was for lint dai gae Slyx a repulatlun through our whol clrp The com nUndlnl genorl henrd of him ano requested me to bring him up to head quarrlers An ndmlrlng circle ot of Clrr Rt 11 > 01 him one Onlng nn < l tlseuse < l hher or no dog could be generally usioMn the nrtlory Three das after came the catastrophe catastro-phe We were drawn up In line ot battle to await developments Styx n lttlng wih onr eo In Ih mldt of hi taorle detuehment huddenly an almost spent sKpou solid shot Crom the ncmy trllel In fronl of us nnd old us 1 seemed Inwly Into the batter More fun said Btx nll to nlm3elfi nm umcil for 1 Tor the first time he had Inl ulatcd Hut then his xlerlnc vlth Miller had l been of the briefest 1he movh ma > w of Iron which seemed n hnrmlsa nt a rubber bill crushed leer le out ot the active little lolun |
