Ding, Dong, Bell.

Manawatu Herald, 21 March 1893, Page 2

Ding, Dong, Bell.

It is written :• ,■ "Not a word? : - r ' Not one to throw at a dog ?" Well yes we have just oiie, th*"^ others will be thrown at his owner: It came to pass ajl; on b, siunmer's day, in actual fact on las V {3undtfy the proud owner of a x ddg, itJoot nf high, at any rate of long^ d^e, took his dogship but for a waHruwAi the wharf, as he < ' ;i '•But thlnka, aamltted io that mu«l okv. KU h\M\\\ d«j| ithftU km Mm %mmf

and, had he not met other company this doleful tale would not have had to be told. The friend, convinced that a dog had only to be put into water to develops his powers of L swimming, threw this noble animal Ttfto tlie Manawatu river, the animal could "not swim; nor had, he the least belief in possessing any latent power in that direction, and as he drifted by the wharf made one wild clutch at a pile to which he held with his fore legs round it. -The old sfory of M Ding, dong, bell," altered to4 r doggy's in the well," was., the j Sung by the two persons answerable f6r'th6 animal's safety, and' the owner, in the belief "for a living dog is bettor than a dead lion " rushed with his companion below the wharf to pull the doggy out. ■P'lilincr with all their might was of Suseaflthe aug i: vin ? e^ e F enced such treatment in return iiu the Wast reposed in them, determined to give them.no farther opportunity to drown him and refused to relax his grip" of the t pile; The old nursery song inquires " \vho pulled her out?" after pussy was • rescued from the well, but we are np£ as .liberty, to. mention the names 1 of" tM^actiersi they We're " however, ." Three nieja in a b'okt " who happened to be passing and who were , urgently , requested to make theattempt. Poor dog, what a fright tie received when" the men in the boat unfairly got at him by the back ami polled ,ijim into _. the river,, the oiily way possible to get clear of his .■clutch of tbe pile, and then floated him up to his owner on the bank. 1 The dog could not speak, but he- * Showed what he felt, by the look he g^LVe at His tormenter who threw him in, as much as fcti sa"y 4| What a , .naughty boy was that,:to drown: poor pussycat;"-