Old Grumble on the Dogs of Feilding

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 136, 10 May 1890, Page 3

Old Grumble on the Dogs of Feilding

"Let dogs delight to bark and bite." Well let them as Dr Watts wishes it ; but let them carry out their delights in some out of the way place where they will not annoy anyone but their owners ; and not in the streets of Feilding, where they are an intolerable nuisance, yelping after every horse and vehicle. Why, they are -enough to make an "undertaker's horse forget its solemn calling and run away, or -a coroner's to pass by a public house without'wanting to pull up. What is the use of them ? Is Feilding an Basternjiown, -and are the dogs its scavengers ? If so, teach them to do it quietly, unless it is desirable to chronicle such a series of accidents that the necessity of having a local hospital (and coroner) can be no longer a matter of dispute. But, let us hope, Mrs j grumble, that when we have an hospital . Jjkwill be an institution for the mending *4f|*roken limbs, and not an edifice built upon a foundation of them; which it will be if soine of those dogs are not extirpated. Bye the bye,. I had the Honorable Mr Lofty talking to my hat for an hour to■day. "Talking to. your hat?" Yes, it* znust have been my hat he was talking to, for although ire .knows me well and has ■often seen me in my working clothes, he has never deigned to speak to me before. It certainly was my hat he addressed and not me. You know I had a new one oh, •and a black cloth coat. I might tell you I answered for the hat, but it was the hat «11 the same that he spoke to and not to Old Grumble.