SAVED BY A DOG.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2466, 2 December 1886, Page 2

SAVED BY A DOG.

_ fbe following account of a dog's taqa* city comes from California:—; * A remarkable inoidont occurred, dur* * mg a.heavy fall of snowy at a'/farmhouse. A number of fowls were 'inipsing one evening at the hour wlwn.'thby usually retired to rooßt, aud alt the' ounjecturea wore loßt in trying to account for their disappear&noa. While-pitting round the kitohen fire tho attention of tne family was aroused by the houße-dog,'. barint; in it* mouth k heti apparently, dead. Forcing Its way to .the fire, the cautious auimal laid itß charge'down upon the' warm hearth, and immediately ran of}'. He aoon entered again with'pother, .wjiiph he deposited in the same place, and so continued until, the, ffhole of the birds were rescued. Wan* derin| about the stackyard, the fowls had become quite benumbed with the 'extreme cold,and Lad:erowdad"together, when the dog obaeryiac (hora effected their deliver* auoe. Theyhid not lain long before the glowing fire era thoy started to their legs and walked off to their roost, cackling thehen'smaroh, in many now variation!, In thanks to the kind dog who had saved . them from being froxeh to death.