RANDOM REMINDER

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31500, 14 October 1967, Page 27

RANDOM REMINDER

A DOG AND THE POST

The brine-braced suburb of New Brighton was recently the setting for one of the strangest exchanges of correspondence of which we have ever heard. Somewhere in that delightful district lives a man, his wife, and a perky little short-haired terrier. The dog was beloved by its owners, and it had the freedom of the city. One mo-ning they discovered that it had a note tueked under its collar, clearly put there some time during the previous evening. The note, which was unsigned, but which was well within the limits of 150 words usually imposed on

this sort of corrsspond•nce, laid: “Why don’t you keep your dog locked up .at night?” Thoughtfully, the terrier’* owners kept it enclosed for a few nights, but then fell into old habits. Again the dog came home with a note fixed to its collar. “If you do not keep your dog locked up, we will Impound it and complain to the council,” it said. The anonymous author also intimated that he, too, had a dog, a female which was, to find the most delicate phrase, in season. But the terrier owners felt they should take a

more active part in the affair. So they wrote a note, and put it under the collar and in distinctly uneonciiiatory language. “Why don’t you lock your dog up in the cellar?” they asked.

A note was sent back—still unsigned. It said they need be concerned no longer, that their dog was fine, and so was their own. It should have ended there. But it may not. Because the terrier owners feel it would be nice to send off a Christmas card at the proper time. They might also, for the sake of kindness, send off a Qask of brandy with it