Lincoln's Dog Fido

[ReignetteC]

I never found out.

Dear Fido,

You have your own chapter in the book, "First Dogs: American Presidents & Their Best Friends." It notes that, when "the president's body was taken home by train to Springfield for burial," you were there and "forlornly watched the funeral procession that was followed by Old Bob, Lincoln's horse."

It also notes that you are "believed to be the inspiration" of one of President Lincoln's stories: "'If you were to call a tail a leg, how many legs would this dog have?' Lincoln asked one of his sons. The boys, naturally, answered five, 'No,' replied the president. 'Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.'"

Is this true, Fido?