Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

Anna Tittman
A. Well, at Colmbia University, a student studying
up with field work, except that the= was a nursery,
the college. They asked if we had any student nurse,
had some free time who could corn down and work in the cl
afternoons I went and helped in the clinic. It was
you know, empty storage space. The worn who was
a very close friend, and she later moved to live
Jersey, out about Hagarstown, because her
he needed to get out of his laboratory--he was a chemist. 1 So I used to
spend any few days I had of vacation there and maybe I'd Zake some f"riends
with me. Then when I had several weeks Ifd go.
And so that was a fine thing. And there was a lovely do$ there, buck and
white dog. He was gotten from a lost dog place in New Yopk City, and they
had looked and looked for a dog. He was a black collie, $lack and white
collie, and Mr. Comg was training him. He could go t a lot of stunts
to get a little dog biscuit. But when I went out I did throm
the hills of New Jersey, he'd want to go. He blew
when I got w
Alpine stock, just barked and barked and barked,
was his nm.
They thowt his narne mi@t have been John, but
rnwer.
he answered best to that when they got him. So Dode wovld mul on mead
of me and investigake things. And once I fell. I slipped on a ro
was in the pmd, you know. He knew it. He cam back, tooking
Q. Checking you over.
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A. I said, "I'm all right, bmie, just all ri@t. '' And/ so when he got
satis fled, why, he went off again. But coming home, he j bt lagged behind.
J: guess he didn't want to go home, he just lagged behind F. But when I was
not there, for mnths, why, he would be outdoors a good dpd. He slept on
the platfom of the stars where they twned, but when I was there he slept
with his nose at the crack of IQJ door for fear I'd get awy; you see, and
not t&e him. They never allwed him to get
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into a car, o they didn't have
any trouble of that kind. But bnnie was p& of educ i ion. I've got a
picture of him somewhere. He was a big fellow.
Q. Was this the first dog you'd had a chance to be close to?
A. Yes.
Q. You did have anids as a child?
A. Well, I had a cat, I guess I had wre than one. We ver had a dog, I
don't know why. And I had chickens--@hickens I fed and t olc care of and so
forth.
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Q. I can tell that you like animals..
A. Well, I did very much. Well, I Wess I've told you tbat . . .