Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 307, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1916 — Portland Ore., Boasts of Only Carp Hound [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Portland Ore., Boasts of Only Carp Hound

PORTLAND, ORE. —Dr. Alan Welch Smith and his fellow owners of a duck pond on Sauvie’s island have presented to the world a new species of animal, to wit, the carp hound. This dog eats fish and insists on taking them*

alive right out of the water. When Doctor Smith and his friends visited their pond a - short time ago they found most of the wheat they had carefully planted as duck bait was gone. The evident size of the mouthful quantities in which it had been taken away, added to the scarcity of ducks, led the huntsmen to believe nil was not right; they suspected the objects of their charity had been robbed. “Carp,” said a sage member of the

party. As if to prove his hypothesis a big fish just then insolently swung into the wheat field and went away with his ipouth full. Another of the party had a dog. He was an intelligent dog, and when his master took him to one side and confided to him the dirty tricks the fish had been playing the dog took it to heart. He barked his sympathy \aiul decided to sacrifice himself at the altar of Nimrod. The next carp that started for the wheat met an untimely death. The carp hound let out a yell which frightened the fish out of its wits, then, while the carp was still dazed, sank its teeth gently but firmly in the enemy’s back and took him out- of his native element. The dog continued his raids until the pond was nearly vacant, so far as carp were concerned. At the end of a week the hunters found their wheat practically intact.