STORY OF A PET DOG.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 175, 18 April 1908, Page 3

STORY OF A PET DOG.

NEWS-RUNNER AND CHILDREN'S , 'playmate. HYDATIDS. •Ho was /painfully ,f at; His sleek white skin fitted his carcass as tightly as docs tho skin of a boi]ed:'sausage; and as he sat up on his hind-quarters',"'and tobogganed .and- .wriggled down the footpath of a respectable Welling-ton-street,'. I reflected that he evidently belonged to a household that loved him and fed liici as ono' of the family.- - " Hydatids," observed my friend, Dr.. " Where?" I :askcd, somewhat startled.' ' " In that dog,'' Ihj said.' "How do you know?" ' ' " Well, look at. him." '. ■ "' •Ho was still tobogganing.' ; ~. V ."Hois ; a ..valuablo. dog—to , his owners,'.'said a bystander.", ".They wouldn't part-with" him for: lots of money. „ ■He.ii'.'th'o, pet'-'of-..the' ! family:i;'>H6'.'is..the •• children's nlavmatel" \ . 0 -.■ A,newsboy came along the street,, and the dog- trotted": briskly';toward i him.'' .The' news r boy placed .'a folded newspaper into the dog's mouth,'- and -tho". creature -carried it- into? his owners''house'. • ••' ... ' •. " There , arc J hydatid Yeggs' on that, news-'-pper now,V;_cdntinued. f my, analytical medical friend..... "It :')vill - be'torn up to wjap the school children's lunches. vThey will eat eggs for lunch eggs." " But .that has probably boon happening daily for years past, and the children'are still free; from hydatids," I; protested. ' " Are you-sure?" " Wcll;; bow:;many of tho Wellington dogs have hydatid' eggs?" \ . - /'Nearly all.y Eight'out of every, ten.", -