Show BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET Brainy Hound Outwits Sequatchie County Jewel Thief By BILLY ROSE A few days ago I got the following letter from a Jake Withers of Sequatchie Dear Mister Billy In some recent issues of the Nashville I noticed the columns you wrote about educated animals dogs that could add and and horses that could figure out cube roots and so I figured you might Interested in hearing about the smartest four-legged critter in the history of Sequatchie To begin at the there's a truck farmer down here by the name of Lem Albright who owns a hound which is as black as the inside of a tar Lem calls him a tyL to near Lem the dog has more brains than a pas- sel of professors Rose and after what happened the other night at our smoked-ham supper and square most everyone in Sequatchie is inclined to Here's what A COUPLE of weeks Will who lived across the line in Grundy passed and when the family gathered for the divvying Will's wife got a gold brooch set wit eight three of them Needless to she wore the brooch to the smoked-ham supper and square and needless to it got more attention than a team-of-four with their tails Everything went smooth nr molasses st the social until right in the middle of a your when Purdy let out a screech and fainted dead And when they brought her she began hollering for someone to lock the doors because her brooch had been stolen from right off her our sheriff was on and after he banged the I'd of the piano to get people quiet he nobody leave this I hate to say but there's a crook in our and I'm to search every man-Jack until I find Purdy's said Lem don't think that'll hardly be My hound as you is the best-behaved animal in Sequatchie but the one thing he can't abide is to have a thief scratch his sure as the minute he feels the fingernails of the fella we're he'll start in to and we'll have the thief in no time a-t a SOME OF US began to but the sheriff took Lem talked to him a and then banged the piano lid don't rightly know whether Lem's notion is going to he there no harm in it a I'm to ask him to take Einstein in the next and then I want all of you to get In single file and come in one at a time and scratch the hound's including the did as and sure 20 minutes later the sheriff pointed at a farmhand as be came out from seeing the hound and like Jake said there's the When the man was grabbed and the brooch was found in his and on top of a smoked-ham supper and square there was a running-out-of town party to top off the And all in it was easily the most successful social in a long Next when Lem was interviewed ly the editor of our he didn't brag much about his tell the he sheriff and we wasn't too sure Einstein could n the so we helped out I rubbed a little soot In the stove on the hound's and every time anyone came of the room the sheriff looked his The first person w clean hands figured to be because the thief was a tin to make believe he was scratch Einstein without really touch his belly Yours Jake |