THE COLLIER’S DOG.

Dunstan Times, Issue 670, 19 February 1875, Page 3

THE COLLIER’S DOG.

—o— A curious and authentic story has come to the knowledge of the Manchester Courier's Sheffield correspondent regarding the manner in which colliers greyhounds (used in rabbit coursing) are Jsept. A Sheffield collier took his greyhound, valued at 40/., to a veterinary surgeon for his advice. He told the surgeon that he thought the dog was not right, for she would not “ eat her mutton the day afore, and that morning she wouldn’t hev her eggs and port wine.” When she refused her breakfast of eggs and port wine he was sure she was wrong. On being asked what he gave his dog, the collier said he bought for the dog every week two nice little legs of Welsh mutton, and when she could not be tempted by a slice out of the middle of a log he became uneasy. Fresh eggs and wine-some favored sherry, he preferred port—were the best things for these dogs. The veterinary surgeon pronounced the dog to be mad, and its owner confessed that she Lad bitten several human beings'and a number of other dogs. The collier, on being asked to inform the persons bitten and the owners of the dogs, replied, “ Hay, not 1. They muu foind it out.” The collier earned fifty to sixty shillings a week, and his wife and children had to rest content with any scraps, that the dog might be fed and pampered like himself.