SITTING DOWN" ON A DOG.

Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1553, 17 June 1882, Page 2 (Supplement)

SITTING DOWN" ON A DOG.

A woman and a terrier dog reached the Union Depot recently half an hour before the time of the Ghrand Trunk train for, Buffalo, and while the woman sat down in the waiting-room »s the best thing she could do, the dog made the tour of the room several times and then curled up on a seat not far away to get a wink of sleep before being turned over to the tender care of the baggage-man, AH things were so-so when a young man wifch a good deal of cane and watch-chain and necktie sauntered in and took a cool survey of the I various females. The one nearest the dog I not only had a young and pleasant face, I but she was all alone. After satisfying I himself of this the young man advanced, I made a graceful bow and inquired : " Beg pardon, but do you go E tsb ?" ' She nodded. •' Ah ! I thought so.. If you have any I baggage I shall be most happy — ah— shall be most happy to—" He had all the time been preparing to I sit down beside her on the dog, and the I . sentence was "not yet finished when he I ■ sank gracefully back. Some dogs have I Jbeen sat down on bo often that they don/t I J mind it, but this terrier hud always been I ! a pampered pet, and had been given' } proper vime to shake off, sleep and get his I i legs under him. When suddenly burled I f tinder 140 pounds of masher his.ideas must I i mve been terribly confused, 'but not for I'ong. A clock couldn't have ticked over I lix times when the young man beganto } rise up and whoop, and he was Bcareelytup I ' when he m»cie'.a i coui'pe £or ( the door which V Upset every band-box, ana flft'&nil A»«| I width of ten feet. As he went out of the I :' <Joor;» l^P^io^J^rMigo^of^him.'aaa I