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Show HER LIFE FOR HER PUPPIES Airedale Never Hesitated When Called Upon to Make the Supreme Sacrifice to Duty. Again a mother has given her life for her young. This time the setting Is the San Francisco waterfront, down where whistles scream, hoists squeal and rattle, engines chug and there Is a mechanical me-chanical ensemble of Industrial noise the long day through. The principals are dogs a wiry-hnlred Airedale mother and her four puppies. A scow was home to the canine family. fam-ily. One day a swell overturned the basket in which the pups lay, and overboard ov-erboard they went. There was no human aid near. But' the mother leaped to the rescue of. her drowning offspring. One by one she brought the little pups to safety. But before she could reach the last one It drowned. Men found her on deck, still holding the body of the dead puppy, and with the three others scrambling and whining whin-ing around her. The mother was too exhausted to move. They sent for a physician, but when he arrived the rescued pups were orphans. To the burden of her own six pups, an Irish setter who lives vaboard the same scow, has added the care ot three foster childern, the orphans of the Airedale mother. |