A Dog Story.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1812, 16 February 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)

A Dog Story.

»og Story. I Little Johnny. / ■ And now He tett you a story about a feller! wich had a dog api the dog it et hen egs. Sc one time the feller he sed, " My girl went with a other ugly galoofj to the pick nick to day, and I felt jest mean erioughf for to play that dog a niizzaMe trick." S So he went to a ole settic hen wich had some egs nearly reddy for t< hatch, and he took one and put it wern th( dog. would find it. IBimeby the dog it see th< eg and looked all af roun and then it wank up its ey, much as to say, " Some dogs likes higl livin, and eats chicken and sech things, bu my tastes is more simpler, and some thing cl this kind is plenty good enoufgh for me." I So the dog it uwollcred the eg at jest ovM moufle, thout ruistin the ahel, and went anfl lay down in the .sun by^its master's feets anfl and went to sleep. Pruty sun the eg was hatcfl out in the stummuck of the dogs belly and thl chick begun for i^o peck the dog. The dog ifl had a little spazzera with its feets and woke ufl sudden, and theii looked at its master, mucM as to say, "Excuse me, I dreamed I had a tapfl worm," and then it went to sleep agin, real peacefle, the dog did. I Bimeby the chickn it pecked agin in tbfl stummuck of the dog's belly, and the'doß jumpt up on its feets and made a back.'likß cats backs, and then turned a sumer salt anfl et gras. The feller he looked at the dog anfl said, real sollemn, " Wot circu3 was you com ected with fore I got you, my friend ? " But the dog dident pay no atenshion, fcfl jest then the chickn stoped a peckin and sefl "Yeep, yeep, yepp," in the dog, and the dog ■ stood with its head turned one side, and prickeH its years up for to bark, and kepi; real stil lifl it was a fraid if it ran a way it would miss tbfl concert. Then the man he sed," Seems to nfl yure mashinery needs oiling, as jure joints^B a squeekin prety loud." ■ All to once the^log seen woe was the mattefl and it give a yellfap and run a way across thfl fields like a stredk, there wasent never a doH run so fast as thsft one, for prety soon a roafl come a long and he sed to the feller wicfl owned the dog. f" 1 dident kanow yure&qeH laid on both sides the county line, i>6t ttfl sun come out forrfest a second, a little ftU&iiH and I seen the'line real plain foxrafllH miles." t Y^ -'"■ But he dident, cos it was the fellers dog.-S The Wasp. - ■

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