Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

     Iowa hall can boast of a dog that out Tanners Tanner, having lived forty-two days without food or water. On the 16th day of September the animal owned by Mrs. Armstrong, of Bird’s Flat, disappeared from its home. They marveled much at his prolonged absence and, after futile inquiries and search, concluded that it had come to its death from cause unknown. On the 28th of October a neighbor out hunting cows was attracted to the edge of an old shaft by a faint yelping at the bottom. Peering down the shaft he discovered the long-lost animal. A ladder was secured and a boy sent to the rescue of the long-lost dog, which could only shiver and laboriously move its tail for joy. The bottom of the shaft was tramped as hard and smooth as marble, and the sides as high as it could spring were furrowed and torn in its frantic efforts to escape. A diet of warm water and milk was administered, and at last accounts it was recovering rapidly. Its weight before it disappeared was more than one hundred pounds, and when found it was less than twenty.