| Show lor e for bog 0 ra by albert terhune A QUEER DOG YARN wn Y 1 lugging that big block bloc behind hirr and getting it caught aught in obstacle Obi Ob tacI bid bad been helen listen I 1 lne ing with keen interest to oid old man kegley who bad beon blui tl Ui I 1 her of the strange atran homing ho aini traits of dot dogs bhe she was especially in tufted because her beloved dog do rey 40 1 bad just found bli bit ray way back to 11 mistress vloe vice street bouse from I 1 tb begley other en end of the city beyley finished all als account of this odd instinct ba b hinting at a story which be he boid her sounds like a lie ile hot but this piqued her curiosity and ehe begged the garrulous carru loue old biti man aan to tell her the try try it happened down bunth 8 ith he be tan PL 1 I wont tell you the peoples peo plea real dames names for at least one of them overmuch much reason to be proud of hia h share la in the things that happened so rii 11 u fake names I 1 tut ut the etory story itself Is trie I 1 know lle its true besase I 1 was wits working in the ton hire it happened and I 1 was a h near neighbor of one of the men and 1 I knew laem both very a ell a x sian wn bhora well call miller had bad a collie named scamp a big wise log dot that looked life a throwback throb back to dome some ancestral wolf and had all the b aan and instinct of the best type of collie miller a dof he lie and nd scamp get on cry well he ile the sort ort of man that bit dof dogs take to or that tale take to dogs it t his fault faull some folks are born hom that wry A friend of its named gregg waa was calling at his hopf house c one day an automobile ran over scamp to in front of the dooryard and broke bis his left leff leg in two places miller took one look at his suffering collie then be start ed for another room a gregg was leaning over scamp ei ex arol mining ning the fracture and be he asked miller where he was going 14 rm going aa to ret get my guv pin sald miller milter and put the brute out of the way lie ile Is spoiled for life by that busted t ties pa f scamp looked up into grew Gr eglett face without a whimper ob imper but in A queer ir dumb appeal as if he stood wl at his blaster toaster was olaf soles to do and as if he was berring begging gregg to ave save him that look went right to gressi Greg gr heart bearl he lie bad had spent a couple of years in a medical edIcal In chool school and lie be wits a natural born surgeon sur ceon even though he lie was in another then give pie me r chance to tet set the leg he eald said I 1 believe I 1 can do it I 1 ire ve set worse ahrn his this send d out and yi ge abnot tte la plaster of parts part and come some bandages and III make a splint while youre roure waltin waiting for them I 1 lie ile set et scamp a leg so that the tte dog its was cured As A soon as scamp haq wa allowed out of the hou houll he still had the placer cast on his 1 pg he lie left home and went limping across town for a mile or more 1 ben grey gregg rot got back from work that afternoon there was uns scamp curled cp planter cat cart and all on the greci G regg doorstep allow did he find hie his way there the mystery ro nut but it pee ns miller had stopped once onee for a 8 ait lilt ith ores greg A 1 ca months earlier while he and scamp were out for a ne sunday think of scamps brain in remembering where ores greg 11 edl I 1 and billik of hig his tens tj tude tilde in h on three lw irs to the man lad saved himl lie accepted grerg as a master and a sort of for doing thit leg setting stunt and leeping miller from shoot ing him next cress took scamp w lack to miller filter miller whipped him for running away hut as soon as ancamp camp could get looe bick hick he limped to Gr Greg ori gw ores gre g took him home again miller kept him indoors till the lee leg was all well then be put a it chain on bira him with a heavy block at the other end of abol th chain to tether him that might went all the way to greggs houe lugging that big block behind him and getting ettan it caught in every sort of obstacle as he hauled it atone it must have been a rot enly bard hard and jurney J ji urney bot but it was taking him to the men he had chosen to hit his master 80 he kept on gregg brought him borne home neit next morning and tried trim to buy him bial miller woul dat I 1 sell 11 him but packed scamp off to 1 la filter lister who lived in a nother city I 1 she kept him la in 9 bh wire in cloture closure nver letting him ou out for A hole abole year at the end of that time she he hipped shipped him back to miller who thought that scamp nua t surely hare have forgotten gregg during those twelve I 1 long ions booths months twelve month months ij is fire five times ai as IMS long to it dog as it if is to a human of course for it represent represents at stout out a tenth of his life the minute he be could yet get outdoors scamp galloped away to gregg lie forgotten collies dont forget he lie was brought back wk and chained tip soon afterward he be was stolen it was in 1017 1917 A soldier had stolen him and taken him to frante as a chum or as 93 A mascot A lad who knew miller milter wrote of seeing scamp in france sillier wrote him to ship him home but bt be sot got no answer now here cornea comes the queerest part of the alry and I 1 ian jan touch its truth for I 1 was in Mil leel home town at the time perhaps it ladt so queer after ah all for perhaps the lad sent scamp back by some friend or fsr haps scamp stole a ride va some returning army transport tran aport anyhow here Is what happened late one oct night gregg heard board a beeme scratching at the door ut his hous bous and here was way lame ana gna starred starved to a it skeleton and halt dead gregg took him lo 10 ind nursed him bak to health urn being an honest man he noticed miller again miller sillier n fused to sell him to gres gregg but tool the colle back home and put another block and chain on him a heavier one this tills time the same evening scamp managed to avoid bis his owners T 4 and started off for greats greggs logging lugging the heavy block at the end of ils kis chain on the liay ay he had to cross th railroad tracks the block sot got wedded wedged between two of 0 the tiet the train came aloag scamp was run over tad killea by it it all there Is 18 to the ram yarn ni ma atin kir finished old man eggly yo 6 poor scamp vias as only juet just a dog so t N know any better than to feel gratitude p and lore love for the roan man who ho bad had saved his life and to want ant to be with him alway always by the th indicate lae inc |
