and dippers! So I did it—I bought
myself a dog. v , .
I He was a good watch dog. At
ifti* least noise, all or had to do
was wake him up and he’d bark.
One wouldn’t call him a hunt
ing dog, because he wouldn’t fol
low a scent, Inifafcfc, he wouldn’t
go ’after Anything lew than a
dollar.
his bird dee pointed a
day. PieSently o*ie bird
About the .best hunting
ever heard of were those
is
of
up,
.an
as
istoeet pop put.: When the limit
westkilted,’ Mr. Buchan warned1
back of - the brush heap and
found! that>i his dog not only
pointed the covey but also had
. backed its members into a goph
er hole. The dog had his paw
over the hole end let the quail
out one at a time.
Mr. Pratt claimed that he had
finally found the bird dog that
he had lost while hunting the
■ year before. “That is, 1 found his
bameain an open: field and iden
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titled him by the tag on a collar
tthat lay close by,” said Mr. Pratt.
“He was still on a jxtot, because
about lour feet away was the
tskeleton of a quail. He had held
the bird on a point so long that
both of them starved to death.”
I bad to dispose of my.dog
when I got married. Tthe dog and
the wife fussed over little things
litke a bone.J He wanted to bury
It; she wanted to put In in the
soup.
Dogs and their antics have
figured even in North Carolina
history and in our churches.
Colonel Creecy reports In his
“Grandfather’s Tails” that “one
of the sules governing the first
General Assembly meeting in
Pasquotank County was that
members should wear shoes dur
ng the sessions and that they
should not throw their chicken
and other bones under the large
oak under which they met. Wear
ing of shoes was to impress upon
the common people the dignity
of the body, and throwing of
chicken bones was not allowed
doubtless to keep the dogs from
prowling around after those
bones and fighting over them
while the assembly was engaged
In legislative work. We dan imag
ine the scene around when the
bones were thrown out; the many
lights which occurred among the
dogs and the much bad feeling
engendered when a member with
Shoes on kicked another mem
ber’s dog."
Hev. R. h. Whitaker, a Metho
dist minister and author’ about
the turn of the century, had two
aversions, both dogs. One was
the church- dog. He reports that
about 1850, Rev. W. I. Langdon
kicked a dog that dtank from
his pulpit water pitcher, and it
took the church years to recover
from the division of its mem
bership. part of the members
supported Rev. Mr. Langdon,
feeling that the dog had no busi
ness in the pupit drinking from
the preacher’s pitcher. The other
members thought that dogs
Ought to be allowed to do as
and go where they pleased, so
long as they did not bite people.
He reported that at Pleasant
Springs church near Raleigh a
church-going dog got into the
sacramental bread one Sunday
and would have devoured it all
but for the timely interference
of a member.
am sorry for a woman, who has
*0 lead or be led toy a pug dog.
eixplaUid In hi* own words: “I
HU Other dog aversion Is beet
iWhenJ see a woman and a pug
dog hitched
the, question in
the woman or
It raises
whether
pug Is hon
ored by the association.”
However, Rev. Mr. Whitaker
knew of one dog, belonging to
Rev. Moses J. Hunt of the War
ren -Granville -Franklin -W&ke
Nash district of the Methodist
conference, which was smart.
The dog went fishing with Rev.
Mr. Hunt and his Baptist asso
ciate, Brother Pemell. The two
ministers caught fish as fast as
they could drop their bait in;
but when they were ready to
depart, they saw not a single one.
Astonished, Rev. Mr. Hunt ask
ed his dog where the fish were.
“Ponto cut his eyes and wagged
his tall. They went to Ponto and
there lay two piles of fish, the
Hunt catching in one pile and
the Perhell catching in another
pile, with Ponto standing be
tween,” the minister relates.
All of which brings us to date
and to the dog Max, a hemo
philiac now under observation
at the UNO Depar tment of Path
ology. For medical science Max
has been called upon to sire 300
sons and daughters. Admirable
being that he Is, Max has not
yelped the first time about his
working conditions, and hours of
<5.
being Held U*der
*1,000 band In the Janes Ccfcnty
Jell changed with, drunken
driving, driving without a driv
er’s license and stealing the car
lot another Marine. He was ar
rested Sunday afternoon near
Friendship F:pe Will Baptist
Church by Deputy Sheriff Roy
(Mallard.
Sgt. Edgar L. Bell Is
Serving In Korea
3D D1V., KOREA—Sgt. Edgar
L. Bell, whose wife, Katherine,
and mother, Mrs. Emma S. Bell,
live at 107 W. Capitola ave.,
Kinston, is serving In Korea
with the 3d Infantry Division.
The “Rock p f the Marne”
division, which saw bitter fight
ing in the Iron Triangle and at
Outpost Ha:iry, is now training
as part of the U. S. security
force on the peninsula.
Sergeant Bell, a survey speci
alist In Battery C of the 10th
Field Artillery Battalion, en
tered the Army in January 1964
and arrived In Korea last June.
labor. He seems to be enjoying
his contribution to posterity.
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