People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1894 — A CANINE CASABIANCA. [ARTICLE]

A CANINE CASABIANCA.

Eow Spot Showed the Stuff of Which U Was .Made. “Spot” was a Brooklyn dog, without noted ancestors or pedigree; but he had something better —a worthy character. , He might pass as a kind of Casabiancm i-.umong dogs. Each morning before going to business ill New York his master conducted family worship, to which “Spot" was admitted, though ordered to take his seat on a chair and remain quiet until his master shoufd tell him to come down. The dog learned to obey, and would not desert his place no matter who called, or what inducement was offered, until his master allowed him to move away. One morning the master was sudden* ly summoned away, and “Spot” wax forgotten. All that day the poor fcl« low kept his place; now sitting, again standing, then, for a change, lying down, but never leaving the chair. His mistress tried to convince him that it would be all right; and the children tried to persuade him that his master had forgotten to permit him to leave his place; “Spot” remained where he had been ordered to stay. When the owner returned at night, and was told of the dog, he hurried to the room to see what “Spot” would do. The dog was on the chair waiting for his master, whose steps he recognized, but ,he did not offer to jump to the floor. Wagging his tail as though he would tvag it off, the dog waited for the command that should set him free. □ When it was given, there was a streak of dog between the chair and the feet of the master. Then, at his owner’s feet, “Spot” gazed up into the face of the man with a look that said plain* ly: “I obeyed, master, but it has been a hard day. Please do not let it happen again.”—St. Nicholas.