HUNTER AS A WATCH-DOG.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 305, 30 December 1907, Page 4

HUNTER AS A WATCH-DOG.

Jiort.SK THAT AX-SWEKS Tili-: "Tj-;u-:riio.N]-;. :; A )i.ir>f which is betfer than a v, aleludoy, and has a (-.peaking lulie in--lalled iietween ii is stable and lii.s owu- . r's bedroom, is an example of animal which it would be hard to t'Vcei even in a ciivu->. Ihe lioise ivl'eircd to Indongs to Mrs. ot .Maida-vale. aud in an ■ id bay huiiier i/i' liltcen hands. a eonse«juenic u! good Ireatnn.'nl and pa':ting lor several years lie lias developed a ivnlly ivniarkyble sagacity. An interviewer was shown the lioise by hir> mistress, His name is 3»rrthday. and when railed lie opened two doors, the iatches with his nose, and v-iiue out in response to the >unnnon . IJivthday'.- is under ]>art of bis » wuer's hoi.isi-. and .\Jrs Wadham-l'etiv hi'"! had a trap-door made in the Moor of h'T rooJii on tlie second storey and a , pe.ikiu<f tnlx? about live inches in diafixed io run al r:n«ht down to the :table, where l!u- lioive's end of the tube i- over his manner. Uirtliday k often beard and nl niirlu. and. saiil Mrs Wad-I-.nn-l'.'lve. -there au- about thirly diffos'eut rails lie can make. If I to ilie tlx 1 Irap-donr ao.t say Mlello. Jiov.' < ui (ell by the tone ->f his response .vh -lli -r he is disturbed by anything or i- hungry, or is merely quite eomlorv i! I'.' and content. "Th-.. 1 oiiif'r we lizard him neijzhand my husband at Inst went t<j see what was the maltOi'11»e h >.*s'» had evidently been disturbed. ;-ud, we found no traces of und.'--inible v.r r 1 oi'H. it is certain somebody '.id beer prowling around. l.irtlida? is cv mi belter than a '.e kno»\s exnetly who is approaching by Imo ?omid of the footstep-."