Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1882 — The Pointer’s Joke. [ARTICLE]

The Pointer’s Joke.

The dog has pointed at snakes without ever once making a mistake for three years, when one day he accompanied hit master on a walk through a particularly stony field, where snakes were known tc be plentiful. Suddenly the dog, whe was walking just in front of the huntsman, stopped and pointed so earnestly that it was evident he almost stepped on a snake. The huntsman sprang back with immense celerity—for he was s very nervous man—and in so doing tripped and fell with a tremendous crash. The dog, merely glancing around to see what was the matter, resumed his point until his master had picked himself up, calmed his mind and resolved to kill the snake. Advancing with that direful purpose he discovered, not a snake, but a cast-off snake’s skin at which the dog had pointed. The moment the man discovered the trick the dog threw himself on his back, rolled over and over in an uncontrollable fit of laughter, and, finally sitting down on his haunches, laughed till the tears rolled down his chteks. He knew a snake’s skin from a live snake perfectly well, and his purpose in pointing at the nake was simply to give his master a ood fright.— New York Times. I et the poor sufferer from female complaints take courage and rejoice. Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound will restore you.