Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1859 — A Sagacious Little Dog. [ARTICLE]

A Sagacious Little Dog.

The Philadelphia Gazelle tells a good story of the sagacity of a little dog in that city. His master, a carppnter, had lain down to sleep after dinner on a pile of shavings in the shop, and during his nap some boys playing with matches outside of the shop set fire to the loose shavings, and the flames caught from one to another till they at last crept into the shop and caught to the heap on which the mail was sleeping. His little dog caught him by the coat collar and shook him, but to no purpose. His clothes were beginning to take fire, and he slept on heavily. Again the little dog shook, and. jerked, and pulled, and the man woke up, just in time to escape being burnt to death, He caught the dog in his arms and sprang out, and escaped with his clothes scorched and burning. That dog is entitled to a life pension of good meat and no “lickings” in that family.