Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1907 — Proper Way To Dandle “Sheep Dogs.” [ARTICLE]

Proper Way To Dandle “Sheep Dogs.”

Good land Herald: Last Tuesday Ben Davidson (Big Ben), north of town, heard a dog barking over in the pasture. He hopped up on his wagon and saw a dead sheep over in his field and a dog chasing the other sheep. Ben hustled over and took a hand in the fun. He grabbed the dog, a big black fellow, by the back of the neck and the hind leg and downed him. About that time there was something doing around there and Ben got ousy and didn’t have time to let go. He got his knee on the dog’s neck, held his mouth shut with one hand, while he reached in his pocket with the other and got his jack knife, opened it with his teeth and cut the brute’s throat from ear to ear. Two sheep were killed and several others crippled so that they had to be hauled to the house on a stone boat.