A Dog Story.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 180, 27 November 1886, Page 4

A Dog Story.

A correspondent wiites' from Jersey t— " I do not think you need go so far afield as America for good clog stories. I had a dog here for years (he is dead rrow, rest his -hade) who was quite as intelligent as any American dog can be. He was a eros» between a retriever and a Newfoundland, and his name was Nero. I would go to market with him in the "morning, a distance of nearly a mile, and buy the meat loi the daj's dinner. This was placed in a rtibh Juliet, and given to Nero, who at once wdircrcd his tail, and took it home, always honestly. Like the dog who, to get an hcK!i * play, discovered the- principle of iho eccentric a<* applied to the steamengine, I hit upon u-plan to obviate the nece-ity o.i: -o in cr i o the butcher's at all. Uuid ''BuVh.r" to Nero every morning befoio \yq -rai IoJ. One day I put a letter lo the butcher in his basket, ordering a pound ot , teak. Then I Kiid '• Butcher" veiy earnestly. Nero looked thoughtfully L recently lie wentw ent out a little wny, stoiiried loolceci back, mid wagged his tail. I fc aid ■ butchci ' ajain, iJiul Ncio started off. 1 waited anxiously. In a little over half-an-hour Noro ictumcd with tho steak. I uelted him much, and he seemed pleased. Alter that lie always went to market, and always shared with his master the dinner winch ho had bought. Liko tho American cat, Nero hated Hie, and would' always paw out a lighted paper or cigar, showinohis teeth the while. I am quite sure no *oom could havo taken fire where Nero was> * taught him much. I could have taught him anything. Ycfc Nero 'was ' only a common English dog. ;

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