IT MAKES A DIFFERENCE.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XV, Issue XVIII, 2 November 1895, Page 568

IT MAKES A DIFFERENCE.

Johnson owned a dog. Thompson lived next door to Johnson. The dog howled all night, seven nights in a week. Thompson said to Johnson :—• Look here, we have always been good friends, though neighbours, and I thought I would tell yon that the howling of that dog of yours is driving me and my family mad for want of sleep. My wife has lost nearly five pounds in weight.’ ‘That’s queer,’ said Johnson. ‘I haven’t noticed him making any noise.’ One evening Thompson came into the honse leading the obnoxious dog by a string. ‘ Now said he to the astonished Mrs Thompson, ‘we will soon settle the dog nuisance. I didn’t like to kill the dog while it belonged to Johnson, so I bought the beast. There is nothing nnneighbourly in killing our own dog. I’ll get some chloroform tomorrow.' Johnson said to Thompson, one day a month later : ‘ Well, yon haven’t chloroformed the dog yet.’ • No,’ said Thompson, ‘ the truth is, we have become rather fond of the little fellow. He is so lively and playful.’ ‘ But doesn’t his barking at night annoy you ?' ‘ Haven’t noticed it at all ’ • H’m I’ said Johnson. • The brute keeps me awake for hours with his yelling.’ Which fable has been written to show how easy it is to pnt up with the noise made by our own dog, and how difficult to endure the noire of our next door neighbour’s dog.

Mrs McSwat : ‘ The reason I object to your spending so much time at that club of yours, Billiger, is that I am sure it is nothing bnt a resort for loafers.’ Mr McSwat: ‘ Great Scott, Maria ! What’s any club?’