EXASPERATING.
A greasy road, a bicycle, and an elderly gentleman. Such a combination is full of possibilities, and when to these is added a playful puppy, the excitement is apt to grow intense. On the occasion under notice the puppy evidently mistook the bicycletyre for his own elusive tail. He scam pered around it for a while, with the consequence that the elderly gemtteaaan found that he was detached from his bicycle, and that he was saluting tl>e greasy road in the amiable fashion of the far northern country where they rub noses. He was not delighted with the situation; but the dog evidently was, for he frisked around, and barked joyously. "Did you fall off, mister?" inquired the butcher's boy, who had viewed the performance. "Of course I did!" said the elderly gentleman angrily. "Ah," said the philosopher and friend of the man of meat, "I thought you wouldn't have got down there just to play -with the dog!"
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 14, 17 January 1905, Page 3
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160EXASPERATING. Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 14, 17 January 1905, Page 3
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