HE WAS A COALY DOG.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIII, Issue 25, 16 October 1885, Page 21

HE WAS A COALY DOG.

" Expect they had some fine pupi up at the Chicago dog show," remarked a passenger from Ohio," but I have a dog at v home I wouldn't trade for the best of 'em." "What breed is he?" '* Don't know exactly, but call him a coaly." " Collie, you mean ? " " No, I mean just what I say — coaly. Money wouldn't buy that dog. He's a cur, but we couldn't keep house without him. You Bee, several years ago, I trained him to bark at the railway trains as they passed our house. That's his sole business — birktng at trains. He does just whoop her up, especially at coal trains. Well, he annoys the railroad s) that every fireman and brakeman on the road has sworn to kill him. Oh, but he is a valuable dog." •' I can't see wh°re the value comes in." "You can't? Well, you could if you waa in my place and had all the coal you could burn and some to sell thrown right off at your back door, free of cost."— American paper.