ON THE LAWN.

Taihape Daily Times, 11 September 1919, Page 5

ON THE LAWN.

' ALL DEAD. A MORNING TRAGEDY. The tragedy of un’.cilnc]y death has Visited another Ponsonby home. The bright and early risers in a Jervois Stréct household heard the gurgling Waters of Herne Bay mul‘nlul'ing 8 knell for the departed spirits of a. dog

three eats, a pigeon, a sparrow, and a. rat, whose bodies all stiffened in the stillness of dissolution, littered the

lawn where some cunning trespasser had laid a liberal allowance of poison during the night. It might. be interesting to guess at the order in which the tragedies happened, for the fact is that the corpses are distanced af Val'~i~ ous places along the train that was

laid. First Came ffié three cats, and imaginatioil must picture them as holding a meet amongst themselves on the springy fllri.‘ in the \\'<\o Small llO‘Lll‘S. The poor lwasties evidexitly interrupted their amorous conversations while they, sampled the fire spilled on the grass‘, and it was too deadly for them to get away_ Next came the rain He ‘had been prowling when he met his fate, and we can picture the joyful doggie rising at break of day and just beating a perky chirpy little sparrow to the clainty morsels they must have thought the High Gods themselves had provided. "The pigeon came last of all, strutting and cooing until he, too, found the food, and his proud bearing changed immediately to the convulsions that came before the end of a s’rricken illness. ‘

Unfortunately the resident whose lawn has thus been made the scene of many dyings will have nothing to say‘ as to probable motives of the slmlal"Z--tan who put this fare in the paths of the beasties, He does not even know

who it could be, but it is suspectéfi that a fox terrier that Has been won? to g‘a.mbol about his place has gone tn :1, bofler land, and in the light of t.hi::; he can scarcely make up his mind to beiieve that ‘he tffing was meant as a joke, or if it wias, he would give anything up to a fiver to lay‘ hands on the joke:'.——AuCkland Star.