Show DOG SAVED BABY FROMA DRAGGED HER INTO A HOLE IN A CREEK BANK THE ONLY PLACE OF SAFETY house barn and cyclone cellar wrecked by storm was it dinst net or accident that saved the family detroit an occasional visitor to detroit Is W higgans of omaha higgans is fond of animals and never misses an opportunity to say something good about them no one bald he can set a limit to their intel and sometimes they manifest it in a ay that is astonishing A friend of mine named roberts moved into the extreme western part of kansas in a region where cyclones are frequent his nearest neighbor was 20 miles away and his family was composed of his wife and a little three year old daughter when the bab was born he bought a bull puppy which grew up with her and as the child had no play mates it made her both a reliable watchdog and a very playful and faith fal companion sport as they called the dog was very gentle and peaceful and perfectly kind to everyone espe 3 baby whom he adored in the summer of the year that my friend took up his ranch he was one hot july day to leave pome for a trip to the nearest town the heat for some days had been most oppressive and this day the atmos was like a brazen furnace rob erts had dug a cyclone cellar near the house and told his wife to run to it at once it a storm arose he cautioned her to keep the baby near the bouse where sha was playing with the dog As ml a roberts went about her work ao 10 the morning she noticed that the baby hd run away with the dog and on boing soing out of the door she found the animal tugging hard at her skirt ehte little one BBS crying and protesting but the dog was steadily bragging her toward a dry creek bed across the field where he was fond of scratching roberts told the dog to let go of the baby but he paid no attention growling furiously at her when she came near she w as following the dog helplessly to the creek bank when she looked up and far across the plains saw a black cloud bearing s down on the farm she screamed and tried to grab the baby but the dog again resisted her whining and growling and 4 ag ging the bay toward what she auld then see was a great hole he had at one time scratched in the creek bank when they reached it the dog seemed content mrs roberts with he dragged her to a place of safety the baby snuggled down in the hole just as the cyclone broke over the farm when the storm had passed she crawled out of the hole with the baby and the dog all uninjured she found both barn and house swept away while the cyclone cellar had been ut terly wrecked had she been in it she would assuredly have been killed when roberts returned home that night and found his family safe you can believe he was thankful now do you suppose that the dog s instinct told him that the cyclone eel lar was not sate or was it just acci dent that he picked out the safest place on the ranch in which to hide his little companion |