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Show DEVOTION OF A HIGH ORDER Surely Canine Sagacity Could Hardly Go Further Than the Instant j That Is Here Recorded. They were gathered round the stove In the country grocery store swapping dog stories. Abner Morgan had "all the best of it" with his yarns ot the extraordinary Intelligence exhibited by a collie belonging to his uncle. The others grew restive. Finally Job Perkins Per-kins deemed the moment appropriate -wherein to spring a tale thai would cap all the others. "That was a purty clever dawg, Ab," drawled he, "an' I make no doubt ha was jest as knowln' as you let on. But say! He wasn't a marker to a dawg my old man owned! Boys, the devotion devo-tion of that dawg Co the old man was shore amazin'. Onct he heard the old man say he was pressed for money, so ihe went an' died the day before the idog-tax was due!" |