A DOG STORY.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12400, 16 November 1908, Page 4

A DOG STORY.

Thomas Joues.v who owns a big ranch on San Juan Island (says a • Seattle telegram of September 17tb, lost a collie dog nearly a month ago and for ; several days searched the woods i abput hiSiiplaue' zealously for the animal, without success; , Lately . he killed a sheep and tossed, "a bone to another collie. Instead of gnawing, it, he picked it upand' started for the woods; „He Kept turning his head, apparently to see if he was followed, nnd Jones concluded iojfollow him. Tbe dog trotted along fur a mile, and stopped at-the edge of an abandoned well. He dropped- the bone over the edge of the well. Jones gqt a ladder, climbed down, "and found tbe dog that had been lost. There was^ only about, two inches of water in 'tjbe well, but the animal would have starved to death had it not been for the bt'\er. The lost dog mas in good- condition, and an it had been missing 24 days, the other animal must have kept it I supplied with food far nearly a month.