A BLOODHOUND'S GRATITUDE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2275, 8 November 1889, Page 2

A BLOODHOUND'S GRATITUDE.

At Anderßonvlilo, during the war, the prisoners w«ra allowed to go out m f quads Btroogly guarded, to coll<cfc firu wood. One dny li was Jackson's turu to go, and for the first timo since his imprisonment he caught eight of "OO'Onol Uutclum," the big bloodhound Bo uotioed that the dot? limped piu itully on < A* of his fore-foet, but gave the matter no epeoial attention until, after being oat for half an hour, he eat down to roit near one of tho guards. The dog approached tho goardu as if to ask somo favour, but was repulsed with a threatened blow He skulked round and came nearer the prisoner, who saw that he had an old horse nail run Into his foot, With a little ooaxlns; ho got th> dog near, attri finally pulod oat the natl, and the animal ran away seemingly well pk»aed. Twelve dftyn after that, one night about m'-dalght Juiokion esoaped. The prisoner was » long time getting clour of tha neighbourhood, nnd ireak »bd ■tnrved as he was he was no more ttun two miles from tbe stockade when day broke, and " Oolonel Oatoham " was pat on hie traok. When be heard the hound oomtng he looked for a tattr able tree en olitnb, bat foiled to find one. Armed with » o!ub be took b b sUnd and determined to make a fight, for it. The dog reaognluod the man, and begun exhibiting nvery sign of frien ifthlp. After a few m nates the puruuro were heard m the distance. The dog at oaoa trotted ofl m that direction, and was shortly b»y log and lending th.3in over a fiotlilooa trail, The prUoner pm-.ed ahead for half an hoar, and wna thon rejoined by the dog, who kept eirh >r clone to hU heels or jtißi ■head of h'm all the day, and lay beside blin la the woadn as night. This position of guardian or coin pan io;i ha maintained until towards night of the seoond day, when be returned to fie otookade. The prisoner was then 'hirty miles away, bat OB the morning of the fifth he was re* oaptared. W/imi hi rotarmd, tbe hound met »nd oareseed him. From that boar to tha close of the **r the dog would not take the trail of »a 10 >plng prisoner.