A Dog Story.

Manawatu Herald, 28 June 1898, Page 2

A Dog Story.

Here is the " Spectator's " latest dog story : — "Zulu, who Bleeps in the basement of a large house in a fashionable quarter of one tit our largest cities, was early one Sunday morning lately roused by an out* break of fire, which had apparently been smouldering for some little time between the floor of the diningroom and ceiling of the room below. He, after repeatedly scratching at the bedroom door of ona of the servants, succeeded in waking her. Thinking the dog must be unwell, she let him into her room, and got into bed again but was not allowed to sleep, as Zulu siting close by her bedside, kept • talking ' to her (as she describes it) so vigorously^ that she suspected something must be wrong. On getting up the dog appeared so delighted that she followed him out of the room, and on looking into one of the rooms discovered the ceiling burning. Upon rousing the owner^ of the house, who immediately; had the fire-alarm rung (which was fortunately dose at hand), Zulu, seeming to know he had done his duty, rushed upstairs to his mistress, and left the house with the children, evidently satisfied that, he had fulfilled his part. On the fire brigade's arrival it was found that the fire had taken serious hold." The timely action of the dog, however, saved the dwelling, and the Alliance Insurance Company, with whom the premises were insured, have awarded a silver medal to Zulu. Zulu wag a Bussian poodle.