Story of a Dog Traveler.
Was raised on farm and has since become widely known.
Jack is the name of a dog that is known to everybody in Rushville, Ind., and which makes that place headquarters while he travels to all the towns within thirty miles of it, says the Indianapolis News. He comes from an aristocratic family of spaniels and collies and spent his earlier years on a farm. He made occasional trips to town with the farmer in his youth and one day after the farmer’s son gave him a whipping for disturbing eggs in a hen’s nest Jack came to Rushville to live.
He wandered about town for some days and then took up his quarters at a barn where an omnibus is sheltered and where he found friendly hands ready to aid him and when in Rushville he seldom fails to go with the bus to the railroad station.
He was at the station one day when a tramp kicked him and Jack ran to the steps of a passenger coach and the train carried him away. He was gone for two weeks when he came back on a train, took his old place on the bus and went back to the barn to live.
Jack made a trip by train to Cambridge City a few days ago and when he returned on a freight train there was no bus at the station. He jumped on the dray and refused to get off until he had been hauled to town.
The dog goes to Newcastle about once a week and he has his human friends there, who feed him “on the fat of the land,” most of the food coming from hotels and restaurants. In Newcastle he makes his headquarters at the post office, riding to and from the station in a mall wagon, guarding the pouches as he rides. He sleeps before the safe in the Newcastle post office and regards the office men as his friends.
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