THE "SINGING DOG"

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 53, 11 June 1910, Page 9

THE "SINGING DOG"

In Sammy, a handsome collie, Ludwig Carlson, of Montclair, N.J. (U.S.A.), possesses a self-educated canine tenor soloist. Every morning when the bell on St. John's Episcopal ChuTch, near the dog's house, begins ringing, Shammy takes up a position not far from the edifice and begins an accompaniment that :has' none of the discordance of the ordinary canine howl. It is a musical voice which Sammy Wends with the deep notes of the bell, and it has been observed that the dog is exactly in tune with the metallic sounds that come from the chnrch belfry. At noon the collie maikes tracks ror a lumber plant operated by his owner. Here the dog accompanies the whistle, which is blown at mid-day, anri nerc, too, he always achieves perfect harmony. The dog also joins his voice with the town curfew bell at nine o'clock at night. Persons who have studied the dog's wifoimances say that in the beginning his voice was harsh and not attuned to the bells or the whistles, but devotion to practice and love of harmony have made him an accomplished canine vocalist.