ELEGIES ON DOGS.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume II, Issue 163, 28 March 1874, Page 3

ELEGIES ON DOGS.

TO Til K KPITOB, biu, bohemian, ’in a late issue, quotes some lifu'g of miuo composed many years ago (and whu'h I Ini vo off on soon in print since) upon Uul doil,h «f <t pot Skye terrier. 1 allude to two supply which appeared its your issue of the 14th. ill you kindly poruiit too to give you (ho whole story. It is simply that iu .England, many years ago, i gave in n young sis'er of mine u very small hk\e terrier bitch, to which everyone boiv.mo very mueli att curd. Great * ina were bestowed on tho edunition of this little animal, who was t tight. inunmenilde tricks, some of which might be reckoned almost marvellous. Subsequently, the owner ol tins dog rauno out to Australia, bringing her Hi Go pot with her. The poor creature, after a life of uniform kindness, experienced tho fate of nil pots, for she camo to a tragic. 1 end, Dike tho “ poor work-house boy,’ she was actually <• boiled in the soup/* for sho fell into boiling .-uppers at. the cattle station, and was rescued only to die. I was absent at tho lime, but on my n .urn I erected a small monument to her ui.-mory with tho following inscrip iou ; “Pause, reader, and who e’er compassion feels, Xiouru what this humble mound of earth conceals. Deride not this, but spare a pitying tear, All that remains of “ Midge " lies buried here. Attentive read this unpretending verso W Idle 1. attempt her merit) to rehearse. Courag-ons, po ceable, serene her simple mind, ►Such qualiti in dogs we rarely find. Hut dogs, like men, their last sad tribute pay, And yield possession of their house of clav, bo Midge hug cross .■ d tho seas abroad to roiun And found a r< sting place, her lust, long home. Peace to her ashes, thus with public praise Inscribed upon her tomb, a monument wo raise. That stone ),o mark, this epitaph to -toll. We bid our shaggy coated friend farewell. The foregoing, sir, is all that I can remember of the doggrol composed at, tho time, which appeared to pleuso those for whom it wus intended. —I am, &c. Edward Little.