Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 300, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1913 — Dog a Bit Ahead. [ARTICLE]

Dog a Bit Ahead.

A Maine man tells a story of a friend of his in the west who was induced by a stranger to buy what was claimed by the latter to be the best wolf dog in the country. A few days later the man took his new purchase and started out early in the morning to try him out The dog soon picked up the scent and started off, the man following on horseback. The dog was soon out of sight but the man could hear him bark occasionally and followed on. About noon he met another man coming from the opposite direction and inquired if he had seen a wolf and a do anywhere, to which the man replied that he had. “And how were they going?” queried the man. “Was the dog nearly onto him?” "Well,” answered the other, “if I repnember correctly, the dog was just a trifle ahead.*’—Harper’s Magazine.