He was a Coaly Dog.
" Expect they had some fine pups up at the Chicago dog show," remarked a passenger from Ohio, " but I have a dog at 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 see several years ago I trained him to bark at the railway trains as they passed our house. That's his sole business — barking at trains. He does just whoop her up, especially at coal trains. Well, ho annoys the railroad so that every fireman and brakemau on the road has sworn to kill him. Oh, but he is a valuable dog ! " " I can't see where the value conies in." "You can't? Well, you could if you xyas 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." — "Train Talk," Chicago Herald.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1765, 19 September 1885, Page 28
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182He was a Coaly Dog. Otago Witness, Issue 1765, 19 September 1885, Page 28
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