Lincoln centennial number (1909) (14592484447)

Identifier: lincolncentenni00newy (find matches)
Title: Lincoln centennial number
Year: 1909 (1900s)
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Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Trumbull, Lyman, 1813-1896 Presidents
Publisher: New York
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant



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usual among wild hunt-ers, for the storage habit saved the Dom-ino and his partner from famine straits,though long-cached fruit or fish is not thechoicest food. The love-time passed, thespring was near, when one day, cominghomeward over the hills, the Dominowas witness of a shocking crime. He wasbecoming a very wise fox, and no wisefox ever crosses a ridge without firstpeeping over. He slowly raised his headabove the line to reconnoiter, and raw in afenced-in, sheltered glade a flock of sheepracing about like mad, and after themwas a huge dark hound, the one that hehated most. Two or three of the sheepwere lying weltering and dead, and as theDomino watched the brute laid anotherlow. The plan was to seize one bythe throat, throw it, and tear as long asthe hot blood gushed, then seize anotherand another. Not horror, but curiosityand amazement, fixed the Domino to thespot. Hekla was in the midst of anotherfierce attack when a rifle-shot was heard,and the ball struck a flat rock above the
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Drawn by Ernest Thompson Seton. Half-tone plate engraved by G. M. LewisTHE DEATH RIDE DOMINO REYNARD OF GOLDUR TOWN 549 murderers head. Who says that a doghas no conscience ? Who dares tell thathe does not know when caught in crime?The bloody coward knew well what itmeant; he leaped down a sheltered gullyand fled for his life, unseen, and his mas-ter never heard him charged with crime.The Domino also ran away across thefield, but he was seen. The shepherdcame, and saw a dozen murdered sheep,but no dog-tracks, for the scurrying flockhad trampled them out. The circum-stantial evidence was complete. Manysheep had suffered before this time, andvowing deadly vengeance on all foxes, theshepherd set about a plan. At first he found few to join him, butmore sheep were killed in March, includ-ing a number of early lambs, and thoughsome pretended that they saw large dog-tracks about the scene of the murder,there were many who believed the foxhad done it, and were specially ready tojoin in the ch