ME DOBSON'S EXPERIENCE WITH A DOG.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 51, 28 February 1879, Page 4

ME DOBSON'S EXPERIENCE WITH A DOG.

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the animal left out in the cold, took him home. Mrs Dobson hates dogs, bat after an argument of an hour or so consented to allow this one to sleep in the house. The animal acted with proper decorum until about one o'clock in the morning, when it began to slam around the house and bark vociferously. Mrs D. hinted that old D. had better get up and " put that dog out." He got up, stumbled over the baby, and upset some stands and things before he struck a light He was just 20 minutes catching the dog and upsetting more furniture than he supposed he ever owned. There was a narrow alley between Dobsou's house and the next, and, opening a window on the lower floor, the distracted man hove the dog into the alley .and slid back into bed, '' as (-old as a tombstone," as his wife said. In about five minutes the yelps of the dog and the wails of a cat in the alley reminded the Dobson household that the gate at the entrance of the alley was closed, and the iiog was still confined within the legitimate environs of the household. Dobson, who was assisted out of bed by his anxious wife, grabbed a broom, and, leaping out into the alley, was about to sweep out V c aog, when a ten-pound chunk of coal, thrown out of the two-storey window of the next bouse, fell with gre.it accuracy upon bis person. The missile was unquestionably meant for the dog or the cat, but it hit Dobson all the same. The unfortunate man now wants the dog-tax raised. This is a true story.