Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1906 — Utilized Dog for a Feast. [ARTICLE]

Utilized Dog for a Feast.

Among the employes of the registry division of the city postoflice is a man who has traveled extensively in regions more or less remote and unfrequented by the average globe trotter, says the Washington Star. In his numerous journeys he has collected a large fund of information concerning customs and characteristics of native races and tribes in various parts of the earth, and strange things that have happened to him and the startling sights he has seen are occasionally narrated to groups of his associates in the office. One of his latest yarns was told, he said, with a view to showing the remarkable faculty of the Samoans for utilizing everything put in their reuh. “Our party,” said the story teller, “went out one day for a hunt some distance from tltc sea coast. We had such poor luck in starting game that one of our number, seeing nothing else to shoot at, killed a yellow .dog which we happened to run across in our ramble. The party proceeded sonis distance further and returned by the same route in perhaps half an hour. When we neared the spot where the unfortunate dog had been slain we were startled to see a crowd of native indulging in festivities. We watched the merrymakers for some time, and finally discovered that they were cooking the carcass of the dog preparatory to enjoying a feast. Meanwhile, having stretched the skin of tire canine into a kind of a drum, they were beating it and having a dance.” n „■ Wlieu two old friends meet, after a long absence, they eye each other very much as two strange dogs do: Each one is seeing if the other has held bls own.