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timber, regularly pointing in any direction from which he got 

 wind of a deer, would take his owner up to it at a walk, would 

 run a wounded beast to bay, follow and worry at the heels of a 

 bear, and keep the camp secure from the inroads of inquisitive 

 strangers or the all-devouring burros of our train. But such dogs 

 as ' Pup ' are rare, and the old gentleman to whom he belonged 

 informed me that an offer of $500 for him would not be enter- 

 tained, though his own whole ambition in life was to make 

 double that sum to buy a farm and settle down, as at 65 he 

 was beginning to think that he was almost too old to stay all the 

 year in the woods. Poor old Sam ! When one is too old for 

 the wood?, it should be almost time to ' turn in ' for that last 

 sleep. 



