Show T adventurers CLUB 4 HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF 1 A dogs life H HELLO ELLO EVERYBODY distinguished adventurer write his own story he can neither read nor write that of course is nothing new in the realm of adventure plenty of great adventurers as much as sign their own names but that stop them from getting into tight spots or from living lives that were packed full of thrills and danger and its the thrills and the danger we want in this column I 1 dont give a whoop how well you can write or whether you can write at all the writing part of it is my job and all I 1 want you boys and girls to do is give me the facts write em down on an old piece of wrapping paper or if you cant write get somebody else to write em down for you what distinguished adventurer did his name by the way is jip he is one half foxhound and one half pointer and hes one of the best allaround all around bird and rabbit dogs in the state of illinois bips boss newton belgum of chicago sent me all the dope about bips adventure newt raised jip from a pup and he was right there when things began to happen it was on a cold day in december 1933 and newt and harry russell and frank blackford were off on a hunting trip along the kaskaskia river near sullivan ill newt of course had jip with him after breakfast they started for the river they arrived in sullivan about four in the morning had breakfast and started for the river it was a bitter cold morning with the mercury down to five below newton was hunting through a cornfield when suddenly he heard a yell that came from the river there was jip swirling about in the icy water he had become thirsty and started out to get a drink but the thin ice near the edge had broken and he had fallen alien in the three men stood on the bank and looked helplessly at one another there a thing they could do for jip so they stood watching on the bank while the game little animal did his best to help himself the current was strong at that spot already it had carried him down from some point farther up the river now it was tugging at the poor ol 01 y 4 and then newt had another idea lie ile loaded his gun and began firing at the ice little animal trying to pull him away from the bank and whirl him out into the stream gamely jip tackled the ice with his paws lie he broke it for about five feet toward shore but he climb up on it when it became too thick to break again and again the current pulled him out each time he managed to swim back but already he had been in that icy water for 10 minutes an and d he be keep on fighting that current forever and all that time newt standing up on the bank was going through a hell bell that was almost as bad as the one his dog was fighting each time jip fought his way back to the little cut he had made in the ice newt says lie he would look up at us with appealing eyes as if he were trying to say for gods sake save me by this time I 1 was bewildered and desperate I 1 wanted to try to go out on the ice but the other fellows told me it would be suicide and reminded me that I 1 had three daughters at home depending on me As I 1 stood there watching him fight for his life I 1 felt as though the whole world was going to pieces to frank and harry I 1 said fellows hes done for and I 1 cant go home without him they started to gather up the dead branches finally I 1 hit on an idea we started gathering up all the dead branches we could find and throwing them into the water hoping the current would drive them back of my dog giving his hind legs something to kick against and enabling him to climb up on the ice but that idea of newts work the current was in the wrong direction jip had been in the water for 15 minutes by that time there here was ice on his eyebrows and nose newt says 1 I stand it any longer so I 1 went back and got my shotgun I 1 was going to shoot him and put him out of his misery but my friends stopped me told me not to shoot him as long as he had a fighting chance and then newt had another idea ile he loaded his gun and began firing at the ice jip was out in the stream again fighting his way back the first shot ripped out a chunk of ice lengthening the cut jip had already started newt fired again and again and then the other two men got the idea newt was blasting a channel in the ice so the dog could swim closer to the bank they picked up their own guns and started to help they cut that channel almost to the shore jim swam into it but still he be get his hind legs up on the ice then newt had another idea all three men fired at once at the ice fee on the upstream side of the dog that did the trick A big triangular piece of ice half sunken in the water floated down and got under aills hind legs and jip kicked himself up to safety they called jip down to a spot where the bank was lower and then went and got him the poor pup was all in his tail was frozen stiff by an icicle he was cut and bleeding and there was ice on his face and ears newt put his coat around him and rubbed him until he could stand up ile he carried him to a gully where hed be out of the wind As he set him down out jumped a rabbit from a brush patch a few feet away and when jip got through chasing that rabbit says newt he was 0 K again released by western newspaper union |