Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1873 — Sagacious Dog. [ARTICLE]

Sagacious Dog.

The Boston Transcript has picked up the following story from some unacknowledged source, and must, therefore, be held responsible for it; A lady and gentleman from Chicago, being at Binghamton, New York, on a visit, went out to a friend’s house to pass the evening. While them a storm came op, and when they left a wa-ter-proof cloak and an umbrella were lent to them. When they reached the house wjiere they were staying. Jack, the dog belonging to the family with which they "had spent the evening, was with them. Being entire strangers, they were surprised to see him enter. The moment the water-proof cloak was removed and hung up, the dog stationed himself beside it, and there he lay until the following morning. Food was offered him, but he steadfastly rcftised to rise and touch it. At length some one suggested that Jack was keeping guard over the cloak and umbrella. Tp test it, the umbrella was taken from the rack and put at the other end of the hall. Jack got np and moved to the umbrella. After lying there awhile he went to the cloak, and all day long he vibrated between the two articles. In vain he was coaxed with food, Not a morsel did he touch. At evening, when the umbrella and cloak went home, Jack followed them, rushing into the house with every appearance of a dog who had done his anty and expected praise for it.