THE LATEST DOG STORY.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 7920, 18 August 1917, Page 4 (Supplement)

THE LATEST DOG STORY.

Fishermen are noted for the tall stories they tell of their prowess, but they are not in it when a bunch of (sportsmen get together and begin telling what their dogs have done in the search

A well-known animal painter in his association with dog-fanciers has- heard many-“ tall” stories, but the most extreme of all is one lie repeated the other day. “ Do any of you gentlemen know the Russian setter, sometimes culled the golden setter?” asked an admiral in the Navy, who was a member of the shooting party. “I was stationed at Petro-gra-d as naval attache to out Ambassador While there, being by chance able to render some slight -service to n. Russian nolbeman, he, knowing me to be very keen -onvdogsV made me a present of a very fine Russian setter of his own breeding. I kept the dog with me till ordered back to mr* ship and then took him abroad. We were some time erasing about, during which time, finding the dog unusually intelligent, I taught him to do many things, among them the wig-wag system of signalling, for which Nature seemed to have qualified him peculiarly with hid magnificent tail. He became very expert and would go forward and signal to me everything ho saw, until lie became the terror of the men.

“ After some time we put in at the coast, land after having got a few days’ leave, I went for a shooting trip up in the mountains. 1 was quite anxious to see what lie would do on birds. Ho was very good, and we were having great sport when I saw him signalling violently from a thicket where 1 thought him on n point. “ Hi? tail was going so fast T could hardly spell out the. message. It was: ‘Muster, there’s the darnedest, biggest grizzly bear in -here you ever raw. I’m backing out. You’d better run like hillvo!’ ”