Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1892 — A Dog Was the Thief. [ARTICLE]

A Dog Was the Thief.

Richmond Dispatch. A few days since a well-knSwn lady of Huguenot Springs missed from her pantry a pitcher of milk under circumstances most perplexing to account for. The empty pitcher being found near the house suspicion, of £pkhse, began to fasten itself upon some two-legged subject of natural history. This solution of the mystery was yesterday dispelled, when the owner met’ her six-months-old setter puppy carrying carefully by the handle into her back yard a pitcher of milk, which tesSifhs seen to tilt to, the proper angle and drink. The statement, corroborated by the lady herself, presents an illustration of canine sagacity which “takes the cake.” 1 ' There are engraved stones in the British museum showing that the fashions in garments and headgear of the women of BabylpQ at the time of the deluge were about the same as those now prevailing.