IT WAS ALIVE.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 310, 8 July 1879, Page 3

IT WAS ALIVE.

He had a big black- and-tan biill-terrier sooner dog on the other end of a chain, and he stepped into a- William street taxidermist's . restaurant to ask where -the Bowery was. After-he.had ascertained the truth about the matter he stood around .;.looking at the stuffed, monkeys. ;and' "kangaroos... *. . ; . , r , ; The "dog'at first [didn't .seem to realize' '-'.' its'position! Tf smelt'of the little dogs, and took in the bird of paradise with admiration depicted on .every, lineament.. It finally appeared to become aware that they " weren't' alive, and knocked . them around to its heart's content. Finally his dogship frisked around a-big'bull-dog . that stood up in the corner. . The bull r dog stood the manipulations of friendliness for sometime, but finally-thought that familiarity bred contempt, and jumping up, took about a cubic foot of hair, and hide out of our canine friend's port side. W 7 ith a yell, the latter went through the window. The owner ran out, grasped the end of the chain, and the two sailed down the street together, and might have been going yet it they had not been stopped by the back of a Chatham street merchant; who was attempting to' sell a man;a'"" dirt,"sheap" COat. :..--;:.;:.;■;■' "- ■• : \;-' 1 - ; ; i'-- : -- Jr - "'■' ' ' " Vat for did dot man pring dot tog in dose blaces?" asked'a German, \ •'■ " To get him stuffed," irisweredSlri De Barth, who stood near. • ■ , , : ■ ; : n,;il \ " Den, py chihgs,''dot jn&n v shonlc| .lose - ■:; his- ; vindows yen "lie, stuffs ; alife' fogs ! Dot's vot I am." And hewirnVdown the ~ street to inform the "Soziety for der/prevention of griiel'ty for'grime.'V, ;