ADVENTURE WITH A DOG

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 142, 12 March 1938, Page 8 (Supplement)

ADVENTURE WITH A DOG

Fond Of Women Car Drivers Duke is a Great Dane who likes motor-ears, especially those with women drivers. Recently he bad an adventure, the story of which is told by a reader of the Sunday Express, who was driven to Horsley, Surrey, England, station by his wife. Duke was in the station-yard when the car drove up. Immediately the man had left it Duke put his feet on the running board and stared at the woman driver. Not liking to start the car in case she injured him, she got out through the passenger’s door in the hope of enticing him away. Duke saw his opportunity. He shot round to the other side, jumped in through the open door and scrambled on to the back seat. The woman driver called a porter. The porter called the stationmaster, the stationmaster called the bookstall manager—possessor of a pole used for’ manipulating the shutters of his stall. No one thought it safe to touch Duke, so they put the pole hook through his collar and all three pulled.

Duke won, but lost his collar —on the end of the pole. But the collar led to his undoing. On it was the name of his owner, Miss H. A. Ennis. Duke, reclining rather cramped but unconcernedly on the back seat, was driven home. Miss Ennis, poultry farmer at East Horsley, was out, but a neighbour enticed Duke from his seat.

Miss Ennis, a noted hockey player, completed the story. “Duke has a passion for cars,” she said, “especially cars with women drivers. ■ln the summer he’ll sit in my car for hours. “He is quite harmless, but rather obstinate.”