BESS WENT SHOPPING FOR HERSELF.
Bess was a collie, and.belonged to a farmer. She was always allowed to go with hfm to the village shop where he bought her biscuits. One day her master happend to be very busy; so, instead of going with her, he wrote the order for the biscuits on a piece of paper, gave it to Bess, and told her to take it to the shop and bring back the biscuits. Bess evidently understood, trotted off. and soon brought back the biscuits. And after that her master never troubled to take her to the shop, but always wrote the order for her.
As the quantity of biscuits ordered was always the same, after a few times the shopkeeper gave up looking at the paper. All went well till the man sent in his.bill for dog-biscuits;' but it was so much longer than' the farmer expected that he went to see the man about it. He assured him that the clog had always brought the order for the biscuits; so the farmer paid the bill.
Next time Bess arrived, however, the shopkeeper looked at the order, and, to his astonishment, found a blank piece of paper. The mystery was explained. Bess had been shopping on her own account.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 196, 19 August 1899, Page 7 (Supplement)
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