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Show T- T - TI Ffe 7 I 7ADVENTURERS Teciv4 Teciv4ADVENTURERS cSA cSAt t ADVENTURERS ' CLUB CLUBHEADLINES CLUBx CLUBHEADLINES x HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES ' | feS-OF feS OF - " OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELFI"A YOURSELFl YOURSELFI j j"A "A A " Dog's Dogs ' Life " HELLO TJELLO TJELLO EVERYBODYToday's EVERYBODY 1 i ' Today's Todays Distinguished DIstmgUIshed Adventurer didn't didnt ' write wnte lus his lusown hisown hisown own story He can neither read nor write adventure That writeThat of course , is nothing nothmg new in m the realm of adven ture Plenty of ' great adventurers couldn't couldnt as much as sIgn signtheir theIr own names , but that didn't didnt ' stop them from gettmg getting gettmgmto gettinginto gettinginto mto into tight spots or from living lIvmg lives ltves that were packed full fullof fullof fullof of thrills and dangerAnd danger dangerAnd Andit And it s the thrills thnlls and the danger we want in m this col column column column umn I don t give a whoop how well you can write wnte or orwhether orwhether orwhether , ' whether you can write at all The writing wntmg part of it Is'my Ismy Is'myJob is my Job myjob thefacts , and all I want you boys and girls to do is give me the facts paperor Write Wnte ; : em down on an old piece of wrapping wrappmg paper , downfor or if you can t write wnte , get somebody else to write wnte 'em em ' down for you youThat That s what today s Distinguished DIstmgUlshed Adventurer did Hisname HIS HISname Hisname name , by the way , is Jip Jlp He is one half foxhound and one onehalt onehalf half pointer pomter and he s one of the best all around bird and rabbit rabblt dogs m in the mthe inthe state of Illino Illmo slip s sJip - Jip Jlp -lip lip s boss Newton Newion Bclgum BcIgum Belgum of Chicago Clucago sent me all the dope about aboutJip aboutJlp Jlp Jip therehen s adventure Newt raised Jip J1p from a pup and he was right rrght there therewhen therewhen \\hen hen when \ thmgs things began to happen It was on a cold day m in December 1933 1933and 1933and 1933and and Newt and Harry Russell and Frank Blackford were off on a huntmg hunting triP huntingtrip huntmgtriP along the \ . Kaska I\.aska I.aska I .aska aska kia k1a river rrver near Sullivan Sulltvan III Ill 11 ] Newt of course had Jlp Jip hadJip hadJlp with wlth him hmr himAfter After Breakfast They Started for the RIverThey RiverThey River RiverThey They arrived in m Sullivan Sull1van Sulhvan about four o 0 clock in rn the morning mormng had breakfast break breakfast breakfast fast and started for the rner rler riser rl\ rl \ er It was etas \ as a bitter bltter cold mormng morrung mornmg with the rnercury mer mercury mercury cury down to five below belowNewton belowNewton belowNewton Newton was hunting hlmhng through a cornfield when suddenly he heard ayell a ayell ayell yell that came from the river r1ver riverThere r1verThere riverThere There was Jip Jlp swirling s\\lrIrng s lrIrng ssstrhng \ \ : about in the icy water tie lie e had bad he- he be- be hecome become become - - | come thirsty and started out to get a dnrik drink but th thf the , . ' thin thm than ice near nearthe nearthe nearthe the edge bad had broken and he had fallen ( alien InThe inThe in inThe The three men stood on the bank and looked helplessly at one another anotherThere anotherThere anotherThere There Thereasn \ wasn \\asn asn vtasn t a thing thmg they could do for . Jip Jlp .Top Top so they stood watchm watching watchingon on the bank . while the game little lltUe httle animal ammal d d his best to help hmrself himself hmrselfThe himselfThe himselfThe The current was strong at that spot Already it had carried carned him hun downfrom downfrom down downfrom from some po nt farther up the river nver Now it was tuggmg tugging at the poorK poorf poor poorAnd K _ f ; ' / y'N/ y'N yN y'Nill ill/ ill , / illr r / i / / d . And then " ' Newt 'ewt ewt had bad another idea He Be lie loaded his gTin gun gum and began beganfiring beganfiring finng firing at the ice I Ifinng 1 I ttle tUe the animal arumal trying trymg to pull him hmr hum away from the bank and whirl him out outInto outinto outinto Into the streamGamely stream Gamely Jip .Tip Tip . taicLled tackled the ice with his paws He Be broke it tor for torabout forabout about five feet toward shore but he couldn couIdn t climb up on it when whenit whenIt whenit it became too thick to break breakAgain breakAgaIn breakAgain Again and again agam the current pulled him out Each time hme he managedto managed to swim back But already he had been in m that icy water tor for 10 mmutes minutes mmutesand minutesand minutesand and he couldn t keep on fighting fightmg that current foreverAnd foreverAnd forever foreverAnd And all that time Newt standing standmg up on the bank was going through througha a hell that was almost as bad as the one his dog was fightinga fighting fightmg a ' . Each time Jip Sap oceht fought ( his way back to the little l1ttle cut he hadmade hadmade had hadmade made In the tbe ice lee ' 1\ewt 1 ewt newt \ ? ewt says he would look up at us with Wlth appealmg appealmg appeal appealIDC IDC mg eyes as if he were trying trymg to say For God s sake save me 'By By ' By this time tIlDe I was bewildered and desperate I wanted totry totry to totry try to co go out on the ice but the other fellows told me It would beswcide besuicide be besuicide suicide swcide and reminded me that I had three dauebters daughters at t homedependmg homedepending home homedepending depending dependmg on me meAs meAs meAs As I stood there watching watchmg him fight for tor his lus life I felt as though thewhole the thewhole thewhole whole world nas .as as was . gomg going to pieces To Frank and Harry I said Fellowshe Fello\\s Fello s Fellows Felloshe Fellowshe \ he s done tor for and I can t go home without him himThey himThey They Started to Gather Up the Dead BranchesFinally Branches BranchesFinally Finally Fmally I hit lut on an idea We started gathering gathermg up all the dead deadbranches deadbranches deadbranches branches we could f fnd nd and throwing them into mto the water hoping hopmg the thecurrent thecurrent thecurrent current would drive them back of my dog giving givmg his hind hmd legs some somethmg something something thmg thing to kick against agamst and enabling enablmg him to climb up on the iceBut iceBut ice iceBut But that idea of Newt s didn duin t work The current was m In an the wrong wrongdirectIon wrongdirection wrongdirection directIon Jip Jlp had been m 1Il the water tor for 15 minutes mmutes by that timeThere timeThere time timeThere There " was "as as Ice on his eyebrows and nose Newt says I Icouldn Icouldn Icouldn couldn t stand it at any longer so I went back and got my shotgun shotgunI I was going gomg to shoot him sum and put him out of his Ius misery but my myfnends myfriends myfriends fnends friends stopped me me-told me told - - told me not to shoot him as long as he had . afighting a afightmg afighting fightmg fighting chance chanceAnd chanceAnd chanceAnd And then Newt had another idea He loaded his gun gum and began firingat firmg firing firmgat firingat at the ice ' Jip was out in the stream again agam lighting fightmg fighting his has way back The first firstshot firstshot firstshot shot ripped npped rapped out a chunk of ice ace lengthening lengthenmg the cut Jip had already started startedNewt startedNewt startedNewt Newt fired agam-and agam and again-and again again - and again-and again and again - and then the other two men got the Idea IdeaNewt ideaNewt ideaNewt Newt was blasting blastmg a channel m In an the ice ace so the dog could swim swam closer to the thebank thebank thebank bank ! They picked packed up their own gu"s gus guns " and started to helpThey helpThey help helpThey They cut that channel almost to the shore Jim swam Into It Itbut itbut Itbut but still st111 stall be he couldn couIdn couldnt t cet get his Ws hind hand legs up on the ice Then ThenNewt ThenNewt ThenNewt Newt had another Idea All AU three men fired at once at the tbe Ice on onUle onthe onthe Ule the upstream side ot of the dog That did the trick A big bag triangular triangularpiece triangularpiece triangularpiece piece of ice half sunken in lD an the water , floated down and got un under under under der Jips Jlp Jip s hind legs and Jip J.p Jp . kicked ldcked himself up to safetyThey safety safetyThey safetyThey They called Jip down to a spot where the bank was lower and thenwent then thenwent thenwent went and got him ham The poor pup was all aU in His tail tall was frozen stiff st1ft staff by anIcicle an anICicle anicicle ICicle He was cut and blecdmg bleedmg bleeding and there was ice lee on his has face and ears earsNewt earsNewt earsNewt Newt put his coat around him lum and rubbed him urn ham ! until he could stand standup standup standup up He carried rorned him to a gully where he d be out of the wind wmd wand As he set sethim setham sethim him ham down out lumped Jumped a rabbit from a brush patch a few feet awayAnd awayAnd away awayAnd And when Jip Jlp .Tip Tip . got through chasing that rabbit says Newt , , hewas hewas he hewas was 0 O K agamReleased againReleased again agam againReleaaed ( Releaaed Released by Western Weslern Newspaper Union ) Union ) |