A DOG PUZZLED BY DRESS.

Bush Advocate, Volume I, Issue 44, 16 August 1888, Page 2

A DOG PUZZLED BY DRESS.

A cattle man from Arizona, William William Wilson by name, has just come down to the city and brought with him a clog that would have delighted the heart of the author of "Sartor Resartns." For the animal flaunts a true Carlylean contempt for the fripoeries of civilisation and the useless adornment of clothes. Mr Wilson sent Nugget, the dog, to board with a dog fancier in a canine boarding house, and then went to a clothing store and exchanged his cowboy's rig for new clothes of the latest cut. The next day he called on Nugget, but Nugget would have none of him. The master whistled to the dog, petted him and made every effort to make him understand that affection was not changed, even though clothes had been. The dog looked up at the bilk hat which had taken the place of the broad-brimmed slouch to which he had been accustomed, sniffed at the dude-like cane, and surveyed the light j trousers frpm. several powts of view,

and then walked off to the corner of the room, lay down, and gave a long §: mournful Mr-Wilson itried ttf : coax hirctput of the corner, but could; riot. Nugget would look vp 7 at him-' with a .knowing expression in his eye, and occasionally give the feeblest little wag to the end' of his' tail, but he could not be induced to reconsider his evident determination not to Recognise his master in any such ridiculousi attire as that. Mr Wilson went to his hotel, donned his cowboy's rig again, and then returned to Nugget's quarters; " The instant the 'dog saW* him he was almost wild with joy, and : his delight at seeing his master, again; clothed as he though^ a man ought jbp • be was almost unbounded.