THE SEARCH FOR A DOG.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 310, 29 December 1900, Page 5 (Supplement)

THE SEARCH FOR A DOG.

COMIC EPISODE IX- A,. PATHETIC

DRAMA

The "Daily Express," Pearson's new daily, Is responsible for • the fpllowlng amusing

The advertisement coldmns of the "ExIpress" for October 2 contained .the following announcement:—

"SIXTEEN GUIXEAS - REWARD.—Lost, Black and Tan Toy Terrier.' Child's life depends upon Its redoverv. Male- flog. Anuwers to name 'Baby.' Two or three teeth Bussing upper jaw, white breast, loiig, thin tail, small brown spots over e/es, paws he.it brown. Size 14 to 18 inches.— l>u Meo, Si, Amstel, Amsterdam, Holland. OtJJer papers please copy;'" ♦

And the story, told in the pagoi of tbis paper, will be fresh in.• the .inirids of many. The dog is hot yet found; the little child Is still ,pining;, the mother is exerttag herse'f to the utmost .to, recover the animal. As already slated, it is-supposod rhat the dog has been -wilfully put out of the way by Madnme's enemies. One morning/writes an Amsterdam correspondent, a young man .presented himself at the lady's house, stating he had a scheme whereby the secret of the dog's disappearance; could be unravelled. This was his scheme: The people whcm Madame d.ii Mcc suspected had apartirei'.t;: to let (furnish'ed)y and this amateur detective suggested that, he should hirtthem as the first stej). He would represent himself as a doctor, and a stranger In

the town, and was quite sure that, once IJ^Sfcnnder their roof, he would discover what ■% they had done v»ith the dog. *"'** " A DETECTIVE'S TRIALS.

• A plausible young man, with winning ways? aud confident^speeeli^-lie quite won ovir the widow to his plan, at which she tintcned like a drowning'man at .a straw. Sc it was agreed that,he should take up ]]ii> ros-ldence, paying a month's board and lodsliife". and see what he *e6u!d discover. '/he lady kept her word, furnished him XvUb tiio money to pay, and in due course he toeh up his abode in tlie house of her cr-.omy. The widow waited in,anxious expectation for further news.' But it was riot iens in coming* The next morning he presented himself, but" in siic'h a dilapidated condition, and so unliempt, that she;at-once, asked whatever' had : happened. . i «'.: - With doleful" countenance, the amateur eetcetiye told the slcip ,of his woes.. After

fl'u'nir the previo^i^OTiins, lie. had. commenced his work by.';making friends with the youngest daughter of the - family-a j-oiinp lady about, his own age—in the hope, as he stated, of getting at th^e dog secret, trhp friendship bettt-een th efv7b made such rapM strides that, the girl'sr father Interposoil, and as tlfe result pf< a heated.altercatjon the young man himself in a \ poiicci cell for the night. f Thus euded the widow's.first lesson in h employJng the .help, of an, amateur- detee-