Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1901 — A DOG’S FIDELITY [ARTICLE]

A DOG’S FIDELITY

A pathetic story illustrative of the faithfulness which seems to be a predominant s trait of the canine race is related in the London Express. At the Southampton docks, it says, there waits and has waited for nearly a year, a terrier dog; out on the veldt, under a rough-hewn cross, lies the ■body of his master, who has gone to answer his “last roll call.” But the dog still waits, and meets every incoming transport with an eagerness pathetic in its intensity. It mingles with the landing troops, yearningly searching for its dead master, and when its quest results in the usual failure it disappears as mysteriously as it came.