Show TROUT ALMOST KILLS A DOG Wallace Short of New York state nas a dog Its name Is Skip It t was long haired but It Isn't any more The other morning it went fishing Short said no but the dog said yes and then It took a flying leap and with a of or delight landed In Inthe Inthe inthe the center of one of the pools of or Frank hrank trout hatchery on the fr Tranquillity Uty turnpike m. m The dog was a bit hungry and when It jumped it had Its gaze fixed on a large trout that had been basking In Inthe Inthe inthe the sun with one eye on Skip an anthe and the other on a bread breadcrumb crumb near by The dog had a long shaggy coat when It entered the pool It had seen but one and had no means of knowing or even suspecting there were other trout In the same pool all full grown and hungry forit forit for forit it was feeding time Scarcely had Skip struck the water when It ft began to bark for Short and Drum Drum- boiler ran to the edge of the pool and what they saw made their eyes pop pop- The thousands of trout had massed massed mass mass- ed themselves about the dog and swimming around and around had engulfed engulfed en en- gulfed him in a perfect piscatorial whirlpool Occasionally one of the large fish would make a side leap and take a bite at the dog Skip was In a bad way when the men ar ar- rived The silent mass of fish gradually gradually gradually grad grad- would have forced him under the water He had gone In longhaired long longhaired longhaired haired but came out like a hairless hairless hairless' Mexican dog The secret was that Skip suffered from a skin affection and his master had rubbed him with olive oil aU appetizing to the fish So they almost skinned him |