Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1906 — A Valuable Dog. [ARTICLE]

A Valuable Dog.

• Mark Twain is immensely popular switlr the farmers living around “Quarry Farm,’’ ills summer home near Elmira, N. Y. He and his jieighbors exchange experiences and both profit thereby. The genial humorist tells of one farmer « ho purchased a- hunting dog that was highly recommended to him by a man v. ho did not seem particularly reluctant about parting it. When the dog was delivered the farmer looked it over with considerable misgivings. It seemed shy and bashful.and hardly the animal it was cracked up to be. Anxious to give it a trial, however, ho took it out shortly afterwards and. as luck would have it. ran across a fox. The dog took after the fox and the two were soon cut of sight, the farmer following as rapidly as be could. Finally he met another farmer who, in response to his inquiry, stated that they had passed in Ids direction. Asked as to how they Here running, the second farmer replied : "Wall, it was nip and tuck, but I thtfik. the dog was about three feet ahead.”—jj. Maxwell Beers, in Lippincott's.