Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1899 — A Tough Dewey. [ARTICLE]

A Tough Dewey.

G - Js the owner of B small very brisk dog tyith •< an abbreviated tail, but who in at least one particular, namely the cheerful.jWfc, durance of privations whe,n ? circumstances require, does creffit to the honored name he bears. When the family went to Michigan, by some mischance the dog was left locked up in the house, and seeming to know to make a fuss or would be unworthy of namesake, he calmly induring his solitary cdnfiu&mefit for two weeks, without food cer tainly, and mostly if not wholly without drink. Though he' have got a that dripped from a cake, of jcq left in the refrigerator.' He was finally discovered last Friday, by G. E. Murray, who saw him looking out of a window. When released he was a little thin, but in good health, and after a good? meal or two was as lively and brisk as ever.