The Story of Jack Quotes

“And the job was done, too, boys – for Old Frank. He had stuck to that point all afternoon – all through that snow – all the while we had been looking for him – while I had been taking Jack to the farmer’s and coming back my self – through the cold and the sleet and the wind and the ice – he had held the point, true as the warrior that he was, the grandest, gamest, noblest of his breed that I have ever known.”
― Horace Lytle, The Story of Jack: A Tale of the North

“Yet it was because these traits were backed up by an intelligence almost uncanny that her fame was greatest. There were many of her admirers who claimed that Lady acted more than instinct – that she had a mind, that she thought and reasoned. Be all this as it may, Lady was generally acknowledged to be the greatest dog on the frontier – and deservedly so.”
― Horace Lytle, The Story of Jack: A Tale of the North

“Jack’s lyin’ up back of Nome now, boys, in a reg’lar grave with a reg’lar headstone better’n any other in all that country – even over humans. An’ from that day to now I ain’t never willfully fought a dog o’ mine – an’ never will again. Wouldn’t own no dog as couldn’t fight – but none o’ mine’ll ever have to fight again just fer money. I’ve seen ‘nough o’ pit fights to last me.”
― Horace Lytle, The Story of Jack: A Tale of the North

“Dedication:
This little book is affectionately dedicated to
MY BOY
In the hope that when he reads it his appreciate of, and love for, man’s truest friend, the DOG, may be enhanced and that he may have a correct and true realization of what a dog’s faith and friendship can and should, and usually does, mean.”
― Horace Lytle, The Story of Jack: A Tale of the North