A DOG'S BAY AT THE SHOW

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2234, 21 August 1914, Page 2

A DOG'S BAY AT THE SHOW

PRIDJ3 AND ITS DRAWBACKS. [By Imogen.] G. 30 a.m. Don't know what's wrong with my master this morning. Here am I dragged from my' basket at G. 30 a.m. without tlio • slightest compunction, and yet ho knowfj. I have bad dreams. Seem to have lived in baths lor the last century or so and then lie will comb and brush mo till I'm sure there can't be three hairs left. Same performance this morning, only lie spent far moro timo over my toilette. Tried liard to wriggie away and have a lovely roll in some clay the workmen had left yesterday. No go, though.' "H?w nico his coat looks! Pat, let me look at you! Ugly little monster! If you doii : t get a prizo aUthe dog show don't let mo see you again." That from Nan, whom I always thought my friend. . Then tho full horror of what lay before mo sank into my mind. ' Tho dog show!, I remembered now how the family had been discussing it for weeks and how-I had been talked about and exhibited before all sorts of men. And I, poor innocent, had been so proud of tho interest they had taken in me. My mother, wlien I was a P u iW) hod told me of those dreadful days, and said that when she died they would find the word "dog show" and "first prize" written in . indelible ink oil her heart, so great was her misery .and her pride. I promptly fainted, knocking over tho Persian cat, who came to mako faces at mo. Always 'hated him, .and I believe he tried to scratch me. just like a cat, hitting a dog when lie's, dewn. . As a result another bath followed, only a cold one this time, and more combing and brushing. . : Brute force got mo to the great bare shed whero the show was taking place. Must have been millions of dogs there, aiul such language «ome of them were using. Made mo feel ashamed of being a dog till I caught sight of the next door fellow,' another Irish terrier who had stolen my'bones the other evening when I was busy hunting a rat. ■ He was just in front of me and was threatening a poor little weeping pug. Beforo ho knew it, or nuyoiio else either, I had him by the neck and wo had a most inspirating time. Even the other dogs stopped to'seo the fight and their tried to tiglit each other before we were separated. After that I felt more like myself. Don't think tho other doc rll/l "

did, though. "Was chained' to the back of n beastly little wire pen on a long bench, just like <iil the other dogs- AVas so frightened at first, and begged my master to take me away. He told me not to bo a silly duffer, and stayed by me ror ever so long, till I got used to it. Had a talk to my next door neighbour. Seems a decent sort of chap. He was an Irish terrier, too, and both of us had pedigrees that went back ti the days of Noah. You could see it with him, too. Had such nice manners. He had been to shows, had won heaps of pfizes. Told mo what to do. and how to make the best of my points when the judges came round. Cheered mo up immensely. Thank goodness, t?io judging is over, and I have lived through , it. Won three first prizes and two specials,. so I heard them tell my master. V It was a perfectly ; horrid time. How would those'men-like to' be paraded' round and round, and ■ have all; their defects as, well as .-'their good points openly discussed, and to be prodded and pulled about' till you feel as though neither your legs nor your eyes nor your ears belonged to you, but to other people. It is insult piled upon' insult. I remembered what Jail, my new friend, told me, though, and controlled my temper even when a little minx of a ; fox terrier barked at me that I. had bandy legs,' squint eyes, and a carrotty coat.. My quiet- dignity impressed her, I think, for she 6topped making ribald remarks. A man came and pasted little scraps of paper on my wall. It annoyed mo frightfully for somo reason or other, and I tore them away. Later on he camo and pasted more up, and again I ate them up. Then Jail roused himself, and told'me I was a fearful little idiot, and while he was talking to me and telling mo why, my master came up and scolded'me till I cried. He told me I ought to be proud of tlieni, becauso it meant I was all sorts of proper things. It nearly broke my heart when I saw one of the bulldogs weeping. He was just the dearest fellow, and, great teara were rolling down his cheeks, while he sobbed and sniffed most dreadfully. I

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