Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1876 — A Wonderful Bird and Dog Story. [ARTICLE]

A Wonderful Bird and Dog Story.

Dr. Hunt, at Irvington, has an English pointer dog which is the admiration of the neighborhood and the terror of tramps. Madame has canary-birds. Yesterday morning one of them escaped, and the usual stern chase succeeded. The bird made along detour, closely followed to her occasional! esting places, until nearly an hour had been wasted, while the pursuers had grown air in number, we might say s«ven, for old “Dash” had been “at heel” and was interested in the result. Suddenly the bird flushed, sailed swiftly across the street, with Dash hard after her. The bird was flying low, all the pursuers trying to call off Dash, but he kept on, made a sudden leap in the air, caught the bird in his mouth, as an Irving boy would a ball on the fly, and then dropped to “charge.” Of course the bird was eaten up and swallowed? Of course not. Mr. C. W. Harrison ran up, and there was the bird tenderly imprisoned within the capacious jaws of* Dash, and the old fellow promptly surrendered ‘•Dickey” to Mr. Harrison’s hands, with hardly more than a ruffled feather. The affair was wonderful two things,—the accuracy of the catch, and the gentle shelter Dash gave the little fugitive in the only spare room he has—his capacious mouth. Where is the border-line between reason and instinct ?—JVw. •rb •ddserSiser. • . • Mrs. Rebecca Baker, of Onarga, lit, was sqjpurning, last week, with friends and old acquaintances in |hls place qnd vicinity. She started hoffe Mpnday mornipg, Mr. AllrU JU-Coy family | Mr. S : P. Thompson returned; from their visit lapt Thursday.