A MUCH-KILLED DOG.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2184, 24 February 1881, Page 3

A MUCH-KILLED DOG.

The Auckland " Herald, ” in a recent issue, is responsible for the following story:—Oats are proverbially difficult to kill, but a dog that we have hoard of can claim the palm from any of the feline species within our acquaintance. A few days ago a pup, aged some four months, the properly of Mr H. P. Barber, of Fort street, ran after a butcher’s cart that was driving past that morning, The driver struck at him with his whip, the lash of which twisted round his body, and threw him under the wheel, which passed over him. The dog of course was very much hurt, and it was deemed advisable to drown him. Accordingly he was placed in a tub of water, and held under the surface by means of a piece of planking for a considerable time. He was then taken up seem ingly quite lifeless, suspended for a space head downwards, and finally tied securely in a bag, conveyed to the railway wharf, and thrown out to sea, everybody being convinced they had seen the last of their favorite. But judge of the surprise of the man who came to open the store on Friday morning last, to find the dog there seemingly in the best of health, certainly in excellent spirits, and there he remains, a monument of what vidssi Indus » pup may pass through and yet survive.