Major Charles G.D. Roberts
Jim; the Story of a Backwoods Police Dog
language
( April 25, 2010)
This juvenile fiction book will allow the reader to follow the adventures of a police dog and was published in 1919.
Three excerpts from the book:
Jim's mother was a big cross-bred bitch,
half Newfoundland and half bloodhound,
belonging to Black Saunders, one of the hands
at the Brine's Rip Mills. As the mills were
always busy, Saunders was always busy, and
it was no place for a dog to be around, among
the screeching saws, the thumping, wet logs,
and the spurting sawdust. So the big bitch,
with fiery energy thrilling her veins and
sinews and the restraint of a master's hand
seldom exercised upon her, practically ran
wild.
...............................................................................
Hunting on her own account in the deep
wilderness which surrounded Brine's Rip
Settlement, she became a deadly menace to
every wild thing less formidable than a bear
or a bull moose, till at last, in the early prime
of her adventurous career, she was shot by an
angry game warden for her depredations
among the deer and the young caribou.
...............................................................................
Crippled as he was, Jim could not climb the
steep face of the knoll, but his master helped
him up. The instant he entered the cave he
growled savagely, and once more the stiff hair
rose along his back. Blackstock watched in
silence for a moment. He had never before
noticed, on Jim's part, any special hostility
toward bears, whom he was quite accustomed
to trailing. He glanced up at the big branch
that overhung the entrance, and conviction
settled on his face. Then he whispered,
sharply, " Seek him, Jim." And Jim set off at
once, as fast as he could limp, along the trail
of the bear.
Three excerpts from the book:
Jim's mother was a big cross-bred bitch,
half Newfoundland and half bloodhound,
belonging to Black Saunders, one of the hands
at the Brine's Rip Mills. As the mills were
always busy, Saunders was always busy, and
it was no place for a dog to be around, among
the screeching saws, the thumping, wet logs,
and the spurting sawdust. So the big bitch,
with fiery energy thrilling her veins and
sinews and the restraint of a master's hand
seldom exercised upon her, practically ran
wild.
...............................................................................
Hunting on her own account in the deep
wilderness which surrounded Brine's Rip
Settlement, she became a deadly menace to
every wild thing less formidable than a bear
or a bull moose, till at last, in the early prime
of her adventurous career, she was shot by an
angry game warden for her depredations
among the deer and the young caribou.
...............................................................................
Crippled as he was, Jim could not climb the
steep face of the knoll, but his master helped
him up. The instant he entered the cave he
growled savagely, and once more the stiff hair
rose along his back. Blackstock watched in
silence for a moment. He had never before
noticed, on Jim's part, any special hostility
toward bears, whom he was quite accustomed
to trailing. He glanced up at the big branch
that overhung the entrance, and conviction
settled on his face. Then he whispered,
sharply, " Seek him, Jim." And Jim set off at
once, as fast as he could limp, along the trail
of the bear.
- Pages
- 226
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