WHY THE DOGS RAN.
Saturday evening was just closing in [at the Waiapu Maori settlement, near East Cape] when we were rather startled by the sound of a most melodious bell. It was simply a musket barrel hung from the branch of a tree and struck with a stone, but the effect was more musical than the ringing of many a bell I have since heard. One of its most astonishing Meets, however, was that on its first stroke all the dogs around made for the bush, howling and yelping ns if they were possessed. The explanation was that the Maoris knew that the church was no place for dogs, and that the ringing of the bell was the signal for every man thrashing his cur out of all desire to follow him. Thus the association of the sound and the thrashing became a fixed idea in the canine, mind.
—From "Notes on Early Days in New Zealand," by the late Rev. George Clarke/ '
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 231, 29 September 1928, Page 8
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164WHY THE DOGS RAN. Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 231, 29 September 1928, Page 8
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