Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1915 — Dog That Saved His Master. [ARTICLE]

Dog That Saved His Master.

I must write you just one story that came to me at the ambulance just before Christmas, even though it is a little late. We had a French soldier brought in frightfully wounded. He came from the region around St Mihiel. One leg had to be amputated, and, besides that, he had half a dozen other wounds. _ His dog came with him —a hunting dog-of some kind. The dog had saved his master’s life. They were in the trenches together, when a shell burst in such a way as to collapse the whole : trench. Everyone in it was killed or buried in the collapse, and this dog dug and dug until he got his master’s face free, so that* he could breathe, and then he sat by him until some re-enforcements came and dug them all out. Everyone was dead but this man. “Isn’t that a.beautiful little story? We have both the dog and' the man with us. The dog has a little house all to himself in the court, and he has blankets and lots of petting, and every day he is allowed to be with nis master for a little while. —Letter from Dr. Mary Merritt Crawford, in Paris, to Ndw York Times.