Show BOG SAVED LIFE OF HIS MASTER LATTER TWICE FROM serious POSITIONS WITH AID OF FAITHFUL CANINE ONCE THROWN FROM ROWBOAT charles stanley would have drowned but for animal s timely ass st ance also hauled from under snow boston mass there Is at least one dog in massachusetts which will never feel the restrain ment of a muzzle whatever edicts may be issued by the state cattle bureau the dog belongs to charley stanley of avon and Is no ordinary dog on two occasions be has helped his master out of serious scrapes once saving his life during his 11 years of life he has proven himself a good protector of stinley besides doing faithful duty as a bird retriever it was one summer s day thit spry saved his masters life mr stanley who Is considerable of a sportsman had stalled out on a fishing trip off and was his only corn panion everything went well until they were out of sight of land and stanley had settled down for a good day s fishing then without apparent rea son the boat upset and stanley and spry found themselves floundering in the water with no help in sight and the boat drifting away the dog of course was in his ele ment but with stanley it was differ ent becoming exhausted he was slowly sinking when the dog came to his aid seized him by the collar and tugged him to within reaching dis tance of the boat and there the dog on top of the upturned boat and stan ley hugging it closely they remained until they attracted the attention of another boat which hove in sight and were brought ashore since then the two have been bound together by all the affection which can exist between man and beast soon after stanley had an occasion to repay the dog once again he essayed a fishing trip but this time in the company of two friends and without the dog tor the three were all that the boat could comfortably hold when about a mile out a gurgling sound was heard behind them and on looking around they discovered the dog swimming toward them weary aiom his exertions and barely able to move his pawa twice he sank beneath the choppy seas before the boat could be put about to save him and it was only as he was about to sink tor the third time that stanley managed to grasp him by the collar and pull him aboard when I 1 pulled him out aalde mr stanley the dog was unable to move but with head between his avs he looked at me as he whined his gratl tide of these incidents spry will never suffer from a muzzle stan lev Is firm in his declaration that hie dog shall never wear one and recent ly there hardened hari ened another incident which further strengthened that de cllon cl lon it was the day after the blizzard and stanley who borki in a shoe factory at brockton found himself j floundering in the drifts before he had gone far As stanley Is short he soon found himself in a drift from which he could not extricate himself and so called for assistance but the hour was early and nobody heard him so he tried the experiment of whistling for his dog it worked tor the dog came bounding from somewhere in the barn and dashing through the snow to his master was the means of tugging him to a less deep part from where stanley was able to return to the house so spry having established hin aselt as a hero is now entitled to the reward ot a hero and will suffer only the lesser of the two evils that 0 being obliged to stay in the house or go leashed v alle out but even this is not so bad tor spry is old and has not much desire to travel about at home be will have every reward that a dog hero is entitled to and will enjoy life from his perch in a bay window of the stanley home pampered and petted |