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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 
pert maid to stay all the 
~ 
4 year in the woods. 
_ the woods, it shot 
sleep. 
NG too old for 
Mar that last 
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