THE DOG AND THE DOG WHIP.

Manawatu Herald, 9 August 1889, Page 4

THE DOG AND THE DOG WHIP.

The Spectator is still publishing extraordinary dog stories. One of its correspondent's furnishes the following veracious anecdote of a prodle. After the innnn rrf his race, he was never quite happy unleßS he carried something in his mouth. Be was intellegenfc and teachable to the last degree. The great defect in in his characto was the impossibility of distinguishing meum from teum. Anything he could get hold of, he seemed to think, according to his dogged ethics, to be fairly his own On one occasion (the correcp. ndent says) he entered the room of. the maid servants and stole her loaf of baead, carefully shu'ting the do r after him with his ieet— the latter part being a feut I had taught Mm. The woman was sacred, and thought that the dog was the devil incarnate. The necessity of discipline on the the one hand, and of occupa ion on the other induced me one day to enter a saddler's shop, situated in a Straight stavet about half a mile from our house, and buy a whip. Shortly after my return home he committed some petty larceny, so I g.ive hira a beating with he whip he had carried home. Going for a walk next_ d*ny, the dog, as usual accompanied me, and was intrusted wiih the whip i o cany. Direct y we got outside the d< or bfi started off t Las bebt pace straight down the street, paying no attention whatever to my lepeated calls: He enter cl tho saddler's shop and deposited 4 ,<jhpv yvhip, on tho floor. When I arrived, the saddler showed me the whip lying exactly where the «og had deposited it.