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Show UKDALF.S TAKE COUNT IN I BATTLE WITH FORCUI'INE Two valuable Airdale dogs belonging belong-ing to Bart Smithson come to a fatal, ending on Wednesday in a battle 1 with a porcupine in the cedar hills) north o ftown. The dogs, evidently! not schooled in the mode of warfare of the sharp-quilled creatures of ttioj : hills, led an aggressive attack when, they encountered the strange animal and they returned home with their hsads and mouths, filled with the ex-( cruciating daggers. An attempt a, made to remove the quills but the, were 0 numerous and lodged to such great depths that the lives 0f doss could not be saved and Sheriff Nicholson shot both and put the out of their miser A third Airdale not yet out of tti,. puppy days, was with his elders, bm being less venturesome, did noj g(. so close to the porcupine and con.' quently connected with many let, quills. |