Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1874 — The Tale of a Dog Who Lost His Tail. [ARTICLE]

The Tale of a Dog Who Lost His Tail.

Mn. G. W. Stapi.es, the proprietor of tlie New York Market, is the happy owner of a shepherd dog that docs honor to his kind, which are renowned for their fidelity, gentleness and sagacity. Saturday afternoon, when on the Enterprise road, near the Pine Creek bridge, Mr. Staples had occasion to get out of his wagon and leave his team standing on the road for a few minutes until he went into the barn to look at some cattleHearing a noise a moment after going into the barn he Iqpked toward the road and saw his team had started to run away. His faithful dog,seeing the horses were doing what they ought not to do, immediately dashed out into the road and at the heads of th* horse#, trying to stop them in tlie same manner lie does cattle, but, failing hi this, Be astonished his owner by grabbing the lines, which had been dragging on the ground, with His teeth, and' then bracing himself, pulled back on the horses as a .person would, trying to stop them- But alas! the horses were too strong for him, and soon were jerking him head over heels over the rough road. Still the dog held fast. At last a sudden jerk ‘threw him under the wlieCls, and in less than bo ‘time that tail—that beautiful tail which he in all his dogging pride used to curl so handsomely over liis back—was no more, but, on the contrary, decidedly less by about six inches. The dog lei go *f the Unts.—THwieille (Pis.) Courier,