FELLOW FEELING.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3009, 16 February 1881, Page 2

FELLOW FEELING.

[To the Editor of the Daily Telegraph.] Sir, —May I be permitted in these days of persecution to address a word or two to the benevolent of the lords of creation through your columns ? lam aware that my unfortunate race is at present in disgrace. We are compelled to wear badges of shame around our necks aa though we were convicts; our owners have had to pay 10s for each of us of those which are alive, and hundreds have been ruthlessly drowned which in life were not thought worth that amount. But in spite of the crusade against us I venture in humility to appeal to the charitable, and to suggest that at each stand-pipe there should be placed a small water trough of concrete to receive the drippings from tbe tap, that we may dip our parched tongues therein during this tiot weather. We are all strict teetotallers, and therefore cannot go into a public-bouse and order a hock and soda as the gentlemen who own us can do. If peradventure we have found favor to have had the tax paid for our lives, may we not crave the'indulgence to drink of that which now runs to waste ?—I am, &c, A Retriever. Kennel, February 16, 1881.