A FAITHFUL DOG.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1962, 29 October 1889, Page 4

A FAITHFUL DOG.

An Austrian banker lately went to Vienna on business, He arrived in the evening, travelling with' a large handsome dog. The two put op at an hotel, and next morning the gentleman went out, bidding care to be taken that his dog did not stray from the 1 house. The chambermaid went up to make the bed in the banker’s room. Bruno was very pleased to see her, wagged bis huge tail, licked her hand, and made friends thoroughly, until, her business being done, she was about to leave, Not so. Bruno calmly stretched himself full length before the door. He explained, as perfectly as possible, that he knew his duty. No one should' leave his master’s ifoora in bis absence. When the girl tried to pull the door open sufficiently for her to slip out he growled, showed his teeth, and finally tried them on bar legs, The woman’s screams brought another maid, and yet another, and then in succession all the waiters. Bruno was glad to let them all in, but he allowed no one out. The room became pretty well crowded, and every bell in the house meantime rang, while the walls schood cries of « Walter ! waiter 1 ” Finally the lady who kept the hotel appeared, and pushed | her way irately into the room, asking angrily, as she walked'in, what sort of a picnic they were holding here. Bruno let her in, too, but not out again—oh no 1 When the lady’s husband appeared, she called to him loudly for heaven’s sake to keep outside ; to send messengers scouring the city for the banker, and meantime to endeavor to fiacify. the angry customers downstairs. That Austrian was a welcome man when be I arrived.