COAL BY THE HUNDREDWEIGHT.
'A coal-dealer in a provincial town had a .large Newfoundland dog of wonderful sagacity named "Rover." Rover spent all his time in the coal--yard, and whenever a coal cart was hauled on to the scales he always took his stand under the waggon like a coach dog. He weighed nearly a hundred pounds, and was weighed as coal scores of times. Nearly every coal consumer who patronised that coalyard purchased Rover by shortage of weight. The practice went on for a long Dime, and was only discovered by accident. A coal pedlar wanted a small quantity of coal and wheeled a barrowful upon the scales. The clerk in the office, working the scales, shouted through the window, "Take out a lot of that !" The man did so, keeping on until all the coal was out of the cart. The clerk tried the scales again, but they still indicated too much. "You must take out more !" shout»d the clerk. "You have a boatload on that cart !" "Look here, guv'nor," replied the Man, "what's your little game ? The :oal's all out ! I shall have to take :he wheel off the cart to lighten it iny more !" Then the man looked under the cart, and saw the big, fat dog at his post. Tableau !
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King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 372, 24 June 1911, Page 2
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215COAL BY THE HUNDREDWEIGHT. King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 372, 24 June 1911, Page 2
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