The story I am about to tell you it well may be true <br />For the one who told it to me for to give him his due <br />Is one who does not make up stories nor neither is he <br />One prone to imagine it would seem to me. <br /> <br />We were swapping dog stories myself and old Lew <br />Of dogs we heard tell of and dogs that we knew <br />Of dogs who are honoured in story and rhyme <br />The history of their greatness has lived on in time. <br /> <br />But the best dog story he told me was one I heard before <br />When I was a young school-boy going back five decades or more <br />The greatest dog story that he can recall <br />Perhaps is the greatest dog story of all. <br /> <br />A story from early Spring the weather was cold <br />The red shorthorn calf had strayed from her mother a young five days old <br />In the field by the farm-yard the cow bellowed around <br />But her calf did not reply and was not to be found. <br /> <br />The farmer searched for her with Shep his brown cattle dog <br />But no trace of the calf in the field by the bog <br />He then thought the calf may have strayed and in a bog hole drown <br />Still no trace of the young heifer though the bog he searched up and down. <br /> <br />But in the gray dawning of the very next day <br />Old Shep the brown dog to the yard made his way <br />With the red heifer calf suckling on the end of his tail <br />That the clever dog had dipped into a full milk pail. <br /> <br />The mother cow was delighted her calf she did lick <br />And none more relieved than the old farmer Mick <br />As he patted his dog you're a hero he did say <br />This a famous dog story that lives on today.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-famous-dog-story/
