Show Page Four THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE JUNIOR Tales Real Dogs of-- lORNING JANUARY 14 SUNDAY BY ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE 1934 New Names Now Appear on List To Add to Fun TRICK: The Lurcher With a Queer Sporting History Trick's story has been written sev- e(dl mes and fiom several tangles l or in his day he was a celebrity I’eihaps the best Sr count o f him was Walter M Gullachin’s in "The Tail Wagger Magazine" It Is to this account that I owe some o( the most worthwhile of the following incidents Near the New Forest in Hampshire England lived a tenant farmer High Trotman who was an ardent One day he shot a grouse sportsman that fell into a field choked with thick brambles and undergrowth Trotman searched the field in vain for the slain bird A i he returned toward the road from his fruitless search he saw a man lounging against a tree watching him Beside the man sat a shabby-lookindog a lurcher Trotman recognized the dog's master as a local poacher and loafer who went by the nickname of Gypsy Jake "Can't find the bird?" called Jake “'"Wai! a bit My tyke here will for you Trick! Get him! At the commapd Trick darted into the field In less’ than a minute he returned and laid the dead grouse at Jake's feet The work had been so swiftly and so perfectly done that Trotman ' asked several questions about Trjck He learned that the dog was expel t in every form of gun work and had not his equal at coursing hares Jake finishedjhe tale by saying he himself was dead broke and wanted to raise some cash iri a hurry He offered to sell' Trick for three pounds sterling (then worth not quite $15 in our American money) Trot-mabeat him down to two poltnds and bought Trick The lurcher was wholly wllling to leave his old master for his new owner Befor long Trotman began to realize that he made the best'bar-gaiof his life in getting such a dog at two pounds or indeed at any price at all For the lurcher had learned not only to hunt hut to do many fther lucrative things The English' Gypsies of a few decades ago were of1 wholly different type from the Gypsies of our country They bad more tricks for catching landowners' game and for devious forms of crookedness than per- - haps any other class of people on earth And they trained their lurchto have been ers— a cur supposed originally a cross between a sheep dog "and a greyhound— to do unbelievable things If I had lived in those day and had) wanted a supematurally gifted and educated dog 1 should have bought a lurcher puppy and hired some skilled English Gypsy to train nim for me Trick not only was the best field dog Trotman ever had owned or seen but he used to bring home plump hares and pheasants which he He carried these so tenderly that they wereunharmed Sometimes he varied such fare by bringing to his master a few chickens farms or geese from neighboring Gypsy' Jake had taught him right shrewdly The dog did not eat br even injure the birds and rabbits he brought home All of them were laid at the Also Trick never feet of Trotman barked nor made any sound at all And he moved as warily and silently as a wolf He used to trot alongside' the farmer's cart on the weekly trips to the near-bmarket town or to Lynd-hurOn the first of these trips Trotman noticed a new phase of the training which Gypsy Jake had given the lurcher Every time a polieman would ceihe in sight' Trick would disappear Nor would he rejoin the cart until it had traveled for another quafter mile or to do this so Jake had' taught-bilest the poaching dog and the poaching Gypsy become associated with the minds of 'the poeach other--flice Also when Trotman was on the streets' of a town 'or was talking to ' other people the dog would pay no attention to him but would keep out of sight This was 'another bit of teaching which the crafty Jake had Imparted to him In a dozen ways Trick showed the devious training that had been his Some of these things amused Trot-maSome of them horrified him— as when neighbors’ livestock were brought home to him by the dog— and still others won him much re nown among Hampshire sportsmen t! g well-know- 1 n n n Application for Membership in Knighthood of Youth Knighthood of Youth Editor The Salt Lake Tribune I want you to enroll me as a member of the Kfiighthood of Youth and I inclose 6 cents which I have earned myself to pay for my first button and chart I pledge myself to be strictly’ honest in filling out my chart Name Parents’ Name Date of Birth Age Address (Street) Grade in School (City) (County) Name of School Date of Filing Application I Earned This Money by - (Explain In detail just what work you did) TOMMY— That Kindred Feeling f Tut Re THAT PIBCY AT TMeL-OOQR- - OOOO NKWT SUiRT!-- t i ’ Darn thn uockT' j Ofo ahx vwd ( -- ) (State) Far and wide went the story oil Trick's prowess to the field It came at last to the ears of Colonel Desmond who was Trotman's landlord and a devotee of sport Desmond asked Trotman to sell him the dog Trotman happened to be in need of feady money just then Also he wanted to oblige his landlord So he sold Trltk to Colonel Desmond for 20 pounds — just ten times as much as Trotman himself had paid for the lurcher But just a little while before that a woman had called on Trotman and introduced herself as Gypsy Jake's wife She said her husband was desperately ill and the family was withj out food She begged Trotman to lend Trick to her for one month At the end of the month she returned the lurcher and told Trotman that Trick had saved the whole family from starving During that time the dog had brought home to Gypsy Jake's hovel 31 rabbits 17 Hares a partridge two wild ducks and three pheasants Tru-l- y the lurcher had paid his way by game thefts while he was revisiting his first master Colonel Desmond was invited by a to a duck neighboring landowner shoot 'to be held on a grand scale' each guest to bring along own retriever Desmond accepted But when he appeared at the shoot with the shabby lurcher slinking at hia heels a laugh went up Trick was a sorry sight indeed compared with the thoroughbred dogs of the host and of the other guests But Desmond knew what he could do As the laughter and the guying died down he offered calmly to bet 10 pounds apiece with h's host and with any guests that Trick would retrieve more shot ducks from the water that day than any other dog in the party When his hearers realized that Desmond was not joking they fell over one another in their efforts to take the bets It looked like ridiculously easy money for each of the h-i- takers The keepers grinned broadly and to get much secret fun out of the wretched exhibition which poor Trick was due to make among all those splendidly trained thoroughbred retrievers The grins were soon wioed from their faces as from those' of the sportsmen who had wagered 10 pounds apiece on the result For Trick gojt into action immediately He sighted the fallen birds sooner and swam for them with far greater speed than did the best of his All dav he was scarcecompetitors ly ever out of the wa’er exneot to lay a retrieved duck In front of Desmond and then to plunge back after the next victim of the guns Desmond won ail his bets with many birds to snare Trick was easy victor over the best of the thoroughbreds From that time on in Hampshire sportsman circles his name was kn- mortal prepared (Copyright 1934 McNaught Syndicate On today’s point list early in tha eleventh big point contest apptar a Some of number of new names these may haye contributed once pr twice in the past but most are rand' new and add a tang of excitement to the race just starting What can these boys and girls do? ‘Will they outshine our older contributors? Shall we discover some new and rare them? genius among Just to run over the list rapidly we see these new names: Ruth Dann LuCee Williams Afton Greer LaRae Butler June Evelyn Morton May Pearson Dorothy Cohen Ted Wool-le- y — eight new contestants: Eight unknown quantities to imperil the record of established contributors! Don't you get a thrill out of just thinking about them? Today’s complete list includes: Katherine Jane Stumm Salt Lake crossword puzzle Betty Cowan Mrphi drawing Keith Edgar Montague Salt Lake drawing Emma Julia Jenkins Salt Lake drafting® Katherine Jane Stumm story Gene Lingo Whisper Idaho article Lavon Brown Alpine poem Alice Carolyn Poulson Rchfield poem Anne Garfield Mona poem stcry Dorothy Newton Mona I Emma Julia Jenkins story Katherine Jane Btuntm drawing Lavon Brown article Walter Broman drawing Rayda Louder Park City poem Ruth Penn Burley Idaho poem LuCee Williams Salt Lake a -- tide Alice Fowkes Mona pet story Fay Watson Midvale pet sloy Travis Andersen Central Idaho pet story Brmell Winn Bralthfleld poem Dorothy Newton poem Betty Lu Oerwile Belt Leke biography Afton Greer Sett Lake poem La Rae Butler Payson bright saying Jed F Woolley III 6alt Lake bright saying Salt Lake brlsht Bhlrley Irene Gibbs " ' saying LuCee Williams bright eaymg Cowan bright saying Betty Danelda Young Moe brlsht sarins Jean Evelyn Morton Salt Lake bright eaylng May Pearson Moore Idaho bright say- Ini Richard Glbbe Salt Lake brlsht saying 300 100 H)0 100 100 100 loo loo 100 100 UM 75 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 IS p2 Emma Julia Jenkins enigma Dorothy Cohen Ballna enigma Dorothy Cohen recipe Tllays Stanley) Nephl Item Audrey Peck Salt Lake riddle Of course our subject is 25 25 25 25 25 Valentine In —poems stbries and drawings addition we must have our annual The best' valentine making contest valentine received will'be awarded 200’ the third 300 points the next best ' best 100 the fourth 100 and all others that show careful wodc will receive 50 points If there Are ties for any place each one will receive the full number of points for that place You can’t lose! Send us some dandy home-mad- e valentines Or you may choose Abraham Lincoln for your subject this week IN THE GARDEN In a rase covered dell in a woodland glen Lies a garden of beauty and grace In this garden a fragrance of lilies is found — Tis indeed a wonderful place It is bounded by patience and fifled with trust With its trees and flowers so rare There sits a woman in a long white robe rose in her golden hair With-- a University of Chicago's football song “Wave the Flag for Old Chicago" contains the line “with the grand old man to lead them" alluding to A A Stagg now coaching in California The words of this song were omitted from the football program for the Maroon-Indiangame a No other place could such beauty I find Never so lovely another Never a woman so sweet and so kind Never any one like my mother RUTH DANN Age 11 Burley Idaho By Norman Price ' |