A DOG THAT DIDN'T LIVE IN VAIN.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2836, 18 March 1878, Page 2

A DOG THAT DIDN'T LIVE IN VAIN.

A well-known Memphis coal-dealer, not long since, had a big dog of wonderful sagacity. He (the dog) stayed around the coal yard, and whenever a coal «art was hauled on the scales the dog always took a stand under the waggon like ■> coach dog. He weighed nearly a hundred pounds, and was weighed as coal thousands of times, and nearly every coal consumer in the city purchased tlj^dog at so much per barrel. The praciieeTvent on for months, and was only discovered by a funny accident. A negro wanted a ' barrel of coal, and wheeled a hand-cart with coal on the weighing scales. The clerk in the office worked at the scales and halloed through the window : " Take out a lot of that coal." The Negro did so, and kept on until the conl was out of the cart. The clerk took the scales again, but the pea indicated too much. ' "Take out more, coal," shouted the clerk. You have a boat-load of coal on that cart." '• "Look hyar, boss," replied the negro, " the coal is all out, and I'll have to lake the wheels off the cart if you want to lighten it." •'':- . . Then the negro looked under the cart, and seeing the big fat dog at hit post, exclaimed :— " Massa, you're selling me that dog for coal."

The dog was missed in a few days, and was found dead on the scales, the animal having taken some poison accidentally, but he came back to die at his post,