TALES OF THE HOME FOLKS IN PEACE AND WAR
HOW WHALEBONE CAUSED A WEDDING
Matt Kilpatrick of Putnam used to laugh and say that his famous foxhound Whalebone was responsible for a very brilliant wedding in Jasper. When Harvey Dennis and Tom Collingsworth were among his listeners (which was pretty much all the time, for the three were inseparable), they had a way of shaking their heads dubiously over this statement. Mr. Dennis thought that his dog Rowan (pronounced Ro-ann) ought to have some of the credit, while Mr. Collingsworth was equally sure that Music had as much to do with the happy event as any of the rest. The Collingsworth argument—and it was a sound one—was that where a lady dog is skipping along and performing to the queen's taste all the work that
