Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 183, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1911 — DOG WON’T QUIT HIS MASTER [ARTICLE]

DOG WON’T QUIT HIS MASTER

Little Animal Pleads 8o Earnestly That He Is Taken Along, and Snuggles on Patient's Cot.

New York.—Doctors and nurses at Bellevue hospital are much interested in a little hlack dog called Jim that was brought to the institution with his master, John Miller, who received injuries from a fall caused by a banana peel. When the Bellevue ambulance re* sponded to a call at First avenue and Twelfth strete, Dr. Biram found Miller lying on the sidewalk with several severe gashes in his head. Beside him sat a little black dog that looked solicitously Into Miller’s face. Wffisai the doctor took Miller .to the hospital the dog followed the men bearing the " stretcher to the step of the ambulance and begged to be taken along. Dr. Biram was at first inclined to leave the dog behind, but the little animal set up such a wail that he took the animal beside its master In the ambulance. There the dog licked thehand of the unconscious man.

The rules of Bellevue strictly prohibit dogs within the grounds, but when Miller was taken into the reception room the dog refused to be left behind. When the dog’s master regained consciousness his first request was for the dog. Little Jim, hearing his name, responded by jumping upon the cot, and snuggling beside the par tient.

Miller said he lived at 527 First avenue. When told that the dog would have to'be taken away he told Jim to ask permission to stay, Jim walked on his hind legs over to Dr. Rutledge and pleaded to stay with his master. The doctor gave orders that the dog should be given the best of care and that he was to see his master every