Too Many Dogs Spoil the Coat
The instinct of Newfoundland dogs to save a drowning person has been some what painfully tested by an unlucky Frenchman. He was walking in ihe country with a friend who possessed 8 magnificent .Newfoundland, and incautiously questioned the truth of the aiiim.-tl's sayacity Tho uog's raasterj vexed at the slur ca*»t on his favorite, gave his friend a push and knocked him into a shallow river. Turk immediately sprang in, and, seeing one of the tails of the immersed mau's coat, commenced to swim for land. Uufortiinatelv another
Newfoundland trotting along-the other Side of the river saw the affair, an! also came to the rescue Dog number two seized the other tail of the coat, and wished <o swim back to hid master. Turk heli fast and strung-led for his sid* 1 ,, and the owuer of the coat cried in vain for help. At last the coat gave way and each Newfoundland swam proudly home with a piece of cloth in h.s mouth, so that Turk's master was obliged to pluuge in himself to save his friend.
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Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 35, 25 March 1884, Page 3
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183Too Many Dogs Spoil the Coat Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 35, 25 March 1884, Page 3
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