Show JO JOE THE TH INDIAN DOG From Sunset Did he ever make friends with the battery boys 1 i No said Sergeant Wright he ho never never never nev nev- er did I understand dogs and I know that our dog Joe died of a broken heart at at Fort Stevens at the mouth of the Columbia and we gave him a a. sort of informal military funeral and buried him where the moaning of the bar is always heard There had been a battle near the Yellowstone and the Nez Perces had gradually had to give way and retreat as the dusk drew down to hide the damage of the day But all the warriors warriors warriors war war- did not go Among the rocks up the caton nine of them lay In one heap seven in another at rest at last Four dogs were there doing the Casablanca Casablanca Casa Casa- blanca bIanc act and a soldier lassoed one of them In form and color like a fox and brought him Into camp Joe was the name given him and day after day he was led by some member member mem mem- ber her of at the company until the long fit fit- teen mile teen mlle O was was' ended He tolerated the portion of the rations handed him but n never ver smiled in return return return re re- re- re turn and merely ate to live He conformed conformed conformed con con- formed to constituted authority as a matter of common sense and on the thelong thelong thelong long steamboat trip down the Missouri to Omaha across ss by rail to the Pacific and up the coast to Oregon he was the same dignified dog always with an ear askance anticipating the tho footstep of his Indian comrade But it never came No soldier had learned to love Jove him but all respected him for fidelity to his dead master |