“DOG RECOGNISES MASTER”

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 298, 13 September 1941, Page 14

“DOG RECOGNISES MASTER”

J EAGUERS Big and Little,— U Jaok-in-the-Box has written a very special 'appeal to the U eathcr- . man on behalf of all the raggetty lambs and fragile f\ owcr4^ m 1^ t p s rU . for those frost imps of his have been enjoying far too much ItMrtV. So much so, that we feel tempted to pass some rather rude about -William himself these shivery mornings. 1 ill we pull up . the blinds and see the snow piled all along the peaks across tlwMrbowr, and then we quite forget that we were about to say at all, so fine and beautiful they look with their sugar-dusted tops sharp-etched against the morning sky. Specially if the sea , flecked with little sparks and the waves are tossing them io eqfih other very quickly, and skimming off under the wharves. It was on a day like that, When the snow caps were festooned with mist and the sea was chuckling softly to itself beneath th wooden piles that the long, lean hospital ship turned into tlie hour entrance. And among the crowd which Unedthe quay waving and. watching, was a small someone tn a, pixie cap. c ? I/e “ f Cw ‘ and a doa called Peter. Just a stoutish old dog with nice eyes—but he knevo that some hng was afoot when that graceful white ship sUding nearer and nearer. Little shivers of excitement ran through him long before Denise could distinguish anyone on the decks 9 and as the ship drew close he was so proud and happy that he rust couldn’t contain himself for sheer joy. ' f “Dog Recognizes Master," that was what the heading m tfie columns said, for lie made such a to-do that everyone came to know about the dog who staged a. boisteriously affectionate welcome that afternoon. And Elizabeth, who is almost as small as Denise, and almost as fond of fat old dogs with nice eyes, went away to make a rhyme about him, plump old Aoggy wilh a phlnip old

doggy way, ' , Who went down to meet his master on the whprj , the other day; ' For his master was a soldier who had fought

across the foam. And, being sick, was put aboard a ship and sent back home. And as the ship drew near the

shore, the people watched the crowd That lined the decks, and suddenly the doggy barked out loud. Among a hundred faces he had glimpsed his master's smile. , And he knew that all the waiting months had really been worth while."

Cheerio!