TALES OF THE FERRY.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 247, 18 October 1926, Page 8

TALES OF THE FERRY.

TWO FROM THE COUNTRY. THE TRAVELS OF "FAGIN." (By Telegraph—Special to "Star.") WELLINGTON, this day. A young lady passenger, who arrived from Taihape on Friday night to join tho ferry steamer for the South, was the victim of a blunder ctn the part of her male escart. Dismissing the taxi at the wharf gates, they walked to what the escort thought was the Wahine. Not till nearly eight o'clock did he make inquiry, and then he asked a passer-by if the Wahine were sailing that night. He was staggered to learn that he had placed the lady aboard the lonic and that the Wahine was already ploughing the seas to Lyttelton. The ferry steamers. Maori and Wahine, have a passenger who pays no fare, does no work, gives no tips, and as a rule loafs about the wharves at Wellington and Lyttelton. but now and again ships aboard one of the steamers. The officers and men see him slinking about, but do not interfere with him. lie is a wire-haired terrier known as "Fagin." With that unaccountable animal instinct, "Fagin" never makes the mistake of boarding either ship on Saturday nights, when the ferries remain in port. He had a pal once and he and she used to travel together, but the lady has disappeared and he is lonely now.