Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Patre Four JUNIOR SUNDAY MORNING FEBRUARY 14 1932 Tales of Real Dogs Names on List BY ALBERT PAYSOIf TERHURE Cause Members BOOTS: A Fierce Watchdog and a Pal His name was Boots Rightful Pride He was an Boys and girls whose names appear on this week’s honor roll may well b proud of themselves With more material than has ever before been submitted we had to discard everything that was not definitely of very high standard There could be no glossing over of faults Work had to have merit to get Into this issue Irish terrier red brown and muscular and staggeringly self important He was housemate and fierce watchdog and pal to Conrad Zutavern a farmer who lived about two miles outside the town of Strasburg Ohio His story is' Strange Here it is: Like most Irish terriers Boots had more than average share of brain and of obedience and of loyalty He took his duties of watchdog very seriously Indeed as many a tramp and petty marauder had reason to know An Irish terrier is not a large dog Seldom does he weigh more than 25 of pounds or so IsBut every ounceiron whalebone and that 25 pounds muscle and every ounce of it is full of ginger Boots was taught In puppyhood not to stir out of the big dooryard of the farm unless he were with some member of his master’s family Nor had he been taken to the The point winners are: Am? Nakashlma Balt Lake valentine Janet Higgi Bingham valmtme Fern Ivy Gardner Salem valentine Fames Kenner Salt Lake clipped pic- mentioned this to the family who were astonished and who assured me he never before had left the dooryard except when accompanied by some member of the household "Also they said he had left home Then one day some 10 years ago Zutavern fell ill with typhoid His wife telephoned tq Dr G F Bainter in Strasburg The doctor drove out to see the patient He left his car in the road and walked up the path toward the front door of the house In his hand he swung his professional black bag Out from the porch dashed Boots to bar the newcomer’s way The terrier's back was bristling and his keen white teeth were bared He was acting on bs lifelong training by preventing a stranger from coming into his master’s house (There Is something odd about the mental processes of many dogs in their refusal to let anyone bring a bag or a parcel into the house which they are expected to guard Dogs which will not stop an average visitor from coming up to the door and ringing the bell will confront him angrily If he is carrying anything with him This seems to me an inverted form of guard instinct I have 'found it in more than one of my own collies ) Being an experienced dog man Dr Bainter halted and stood there waiting until the patient’s wife came to the door and called Boots away from his post of guard But Boots followed Bainter into the house and upstairs to the sickroom There he stood close beside the bed fiercely watching the doctor work over the patient It was a serious case of typhoit and Dr Bainter called every day to see the farmer Day after day the same performance was repeated by Boots But soon the dog seemed to understand that the doctor was his master’s friend and that his visits were for the ” purpose of helping the Invalid I am going to tell what next happened In Dr Ba inter’s own words as he described it to me: “Next morning imagine my surprise when I found Boots waiting for me at a bridge a mile from the house to accompany me to the bedsidel I ( that morning barely 15 minutes before he met me This puzzled all of us since my road had lain over the hills whence he could not possibly have seen or heard me coming “For many days thereafter he always met me at the same place promptly although I had no fixed hour for visiting the patient “The family told me they always knew when I was approaching because Boots would run to the front door if he were In the house and would clamor to be let out He would rush to the bridge allowing himself exactly enough time to meet me there” This went on for some time Boots never once making a mistake in the time or place at which he had planned to meet Dr Bainter whether the hour were early or late How did the Irish terrier know— there inside a house a mile away— how did he know the precise moment when the doctor was going to arrive at the bridge and how did he know just what length of time it would take him to get from the house to the bridge in order to meet the physi- cian? That is one of the several mysterious things about a dog’s mentality which I cannot answer and which no mere human can answer (Nor can I explain how two of my collies used to break Into crazy excitement when 30 miles distant I would decide suddenly to come home to Sunnybank for the day Again and again their mad delight would give notice of my planned return before I had telephoned I was coming Yes that sounds fishy But It can be proved true by at least a dozen people who witnessed It from time to PU Jane Watson Rupert Idaho valentine Bessie Jenkins Kexburg Idaho valentine Virginia Judd Rupert Idaho valentine Jane Watsou Rupert Idaho valentine Jane Wat&on Rupert Idaho valentine Jack Judd Rupert Idaho valentine LaMar Stanley Nephi valentine Arvnl Grover Magna comic strip Salt Lake clipped Betty Renstrom poems Emma Julia Jenkins Rexburg Idaho valentine Marjorie Watts Rexburg Idaho valentine Mvrl Gardner valentine Maurine Gardner Salem Valentins Oeraldlne Sievert Modena essay Helen oessel Providence pet story Idaho pet Dorothy Bremer Rigby story Clarissa Williams Murray pet story Amy Nakashima Salt Lake illustrated busy work Fileen Jones Salt Lake story Fames Kenner Salt Lake story Janet HLygs Bingham story Lael Woolsey Balt Lake story Hugh Judd Rupert Idaho coloring Fern Ivy Gardner Salem poem Fames Kenner Salt Lake poem Betty Cowan Nenhl poem 7lda Newton Mona Lake poem Betty Renstrom Salt drawing Fern Ivy Gardner Salem illustrated busy work Oeraldlne 8tevert Modena story Emma Julia Jenkins Rexburg Idaho story Virginia Judd Rupert Idaho story Llllv pedersen Salt Lake drawing Adell Reese Balt Lake drawing Adell Reese Salt Lake drawing Adell Reese Salt Lake drawing Amy Nakashlma Salt Lake drawing Naida Richardson Logan story Zelda Newton Mona essay Fames Kenner Salt Lake drawing Lae! 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mongrel that delighted to lie in wait for dogs from the country and to thrash them or kill them He flung himself upon the peacefully traveling Boots Then followed a most spectacular dog fight Boots was much smaller than his mongrel opponent But he was all fire and muscle and speed and a bom warrior In less than five in minutes the mongrel was full flight Boots trotted onward with a bad gash in his foreleg but never once swerving from his set course Into the middle of the town he continued his journey and turned in at the stairway of an office building y With no hesitation at all he ran up the stairs to the second floor and scratched sharply at one of several doors in a certain corridor It was the door of Dr Bainter’s office Into the office marched Boots when the door was opened and he held up his injured foreleg for the amazed physician to look at “Boots made no move while I cleansed and bandaged the leg” Dr Bainter writes “After the bandage was in place he capered around me as if to thank me Then he ran to the door which I opened for him OUt he went and set off at once for home I learned afterward that he arrived there safely and soon and that he wore the bandage for some days longer before removing it with his teeth and applying his own methods of healing by licking the hurt “Never again did he visit Straa-burlimp-ingl- He died of old age some few years later leaving an honored name Often I think of him Often I wonder at the ways of dogs and what occult power enables them to do some of the uncanny things they do” time) Zutavern got well (Copyright Dr Balnter’g No longer did Boots visits ceased run to meet him at the bridge But a month later — for the first time in his life — Boots set out for the town of 1932 cate McNaught Inc) Syndi- Birthday of Singer Comes This Week Strasburg You will remember I said he had never been taken there and that he lug Adelina Patti a famous opera singof Italian family was bom in Madrid Spain on February 19 1843 Her family moved to 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