Word: dog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five years of service as a fire dog, a black & white Dalmatian named Whiskers lent Hook & Ladder Company No. 10f Newark a flash and luster which made it the envy of the whole department. Whiskers slept in the big truck and never missed an alarm-even though he often had to gallop back from nearby meat shops when the gong began to clang. When he got to the fire, Whiskers would climb ladders and dash eagerly into burning buildings...
...gleaming retriever sat quivering with expectancy as the shotguns shattered the stillness of the misty morning in Washington's rainswept Snoqualmie River valley. The first pheasant dropped behind the dog. The second, whirring off into the mist, wheeled at the shot and fell into the brush to one side. The third was brought down just across the river. Then the handler issued a sharp command: "Fetch...
...like an uncoiling spring, the dog dashed for the bird that fell behind him. Gingerly he nuzzled it, rolling the bird a bit so that he could pick it up without crushing it, raced back to his handler and dropped the unruffled pheasant into his outstretched hand. With a nod from his handler, he crashed into the brush and retrieved the second bird...
...half years, Father Leonard Feeney has been taking his "cause" to the people in similar weekly appearances on the Boston Common. His harangues have gotten more bitten and vitriolic every Sunday, and his audience, larger. His "cause" is to "rid our city of every coward liberal Catholic, Jew dog, Protestant brute, and 33rd degree Mason who is trying to suck the soul from good Catholics and sell the true faith for greenbacks...
Although they have been tried successfully in other parts of the continent, Little River dogs have never become very popular away from home. But in their own territory, people turn to stare at a hunter who works with any other dog than a toller. In Yarmouth County, at least, the hard-working dogs are appreciated. Any good duck hunter knows that given half a chance, a Little River dog will guarantee him his legal bag limit of seven birds...