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terrier that followed her master through 

 the rain of shot and shell at the first 

 battle of Ypres and afterward adopted a 

 Belgian regiment, was wounded by shrap- 

 nel twice, but continued to "go over the 

 top" until brought to America by the 

 Belgian Mission. 



Fend l'Air, a black and white setter, 

 partially dug his master out when he was 

 buried by a shell explosion, and remained 

 with him for three days and nights, until 

 he was rescued. Follette, of the Tenth 

 French Army, traveled a mile under a 

 curtain of fire, and, although wounded, 

 continued on her mission. She died of 

 her wounds five days later. 



Filax, a sheep dog, failed to win a 

 prize at the New York dog show a few 

 years ago, being pronounced "somewhat 

 too coarse for show purposes." His 

 master thereupon put him into Red Cross 

 work. Braving the dangers of No Man's 

 Land on innumerable occasions, he saved 

 the lives of a hundred wounded French 

 soldiers. 



Whose eyes have not floated in seas of 

 tears as the story of good dog Barry, that 

 noble old St. Bernard that saved 40 lives, 

 has been read? Yet there are thousands 

 of good dogs Barry in the world. Rex, 

 a St. Bernard, rescued two boys from 

 the undertow at Fort Hamilton in 1899. 

 Happy, an Airedale, rescued Jack, a 

 fox terrier, from a raging mountain tor- 

 rent in the Adirondacks some years ago. 

 Stranger and friend, man and beast, have 

 each in their turn known what it is to be 

 rescued from flood and fire by faithful 

 dogs. 



FAMOUS DOG ACTORS 



Dogs have long played an interesting 

 role as actors on the stage. For instance, 

 there is Teddy, seen in the Mack Sennett 

 comedies. It is said among the players 

 at the Sennett laboratories that Teddy 

 never wagged his tail in his life, and that 

 it would be as much of a surprise at the 

 studio to see him do so as it would in 

 Washington to see a sedate justice of the 

 Supreme Court skip a rope. He does 

 as he is told as painstakingly as the most 

 conscientious actor who ever posed be- 

 fore the clicking camera, but if he has 

 ever enjoyed the experience or felt bored, 



his demeanor has never registered that 

 fact. 



Jasper is another celebrated canine 

 actor. He has entertained a President, 

 visited with a cardinal, showed a Su- 

 preme Court justice what a dog can do, 

 and has thrilled his tens of thousands 

 with his acting in "Young America." 

 Jasper is a 35-pound brindle bull. 



Shep, in "The Road to Happiness," 

 played his role for three years without 

 missing a rehearsal or performance, while 

 Jack, in "The Little Shepherd of King- 

 dom Come," distinguished himself by his 

 ability to portray before the footlights 

 the faithful devotion of a dog for his 

 master. Both have a rival in the great 

 Dane that played the second lead with 

 Mabel Taliaferro in "The Price She 

 Paid." Another famous dog actor is 

 Michael, owned by Laurette Taylor, 

 whose touching role in "Peg o' My 

 Heart" will be recalled by every one who 

 saw that appealing comedy. 



NOTED GLOBE-TROTTING DOGS 



Many dogs have developed a fondness 

 for traveling, acknowledging as master 

 for the moment any one who would help 

 them on their way. An antipodean ex- 

 ample of the traveling dog was Bob, 

 whose stuffed form now graces an Aus- 

 tralian museum. Born in the rabbit 

 country, he later attached himself to a 

 railroad employee, and began to ride on 

 the tender of a locomotive. His license 

 was always bought and paid for by the 

 men, and his collar bore the inscription, 

 "Stop me not, but let me jog; I am Bob, 

 the drivers' dog." 



But eclipsing all records as a traveler 

 was*, Owney, the Railway Postal Clerks' 

 dog. In his puppyhood Owney adopted 

 the post-office staff at Albany, New York. 

 One day he went down to the train with 

 a mail wagon and decided he would go 

 out with the boys in the postal car. He 

 went, and he liked seeing the world so 

 well that the wanderlust got the better 

 of him. Finally, the Albany post-office 

 clerks decided to ask the men to tag him 

 on every run he made, with the result 

 that before long it was found that Owney 

 had visited every big city in the United 



