DOG THAT SHAMS LAMENESS.
1» Mr. George R. Sims tells a, good story of a dog impostor in tho Referee. The animal i 3 a terrier, and ono night was found on a doorstop in Rotherhttho. Ho was taken in, fed, and given a night's lodgings, nnd all tho timo ho hopped about on threo lokh. He was lamo m tho morning nnd ha<l a good breakfast, continuing liimo until aomo ono opened the front <l«nr. Tlwn ho put hia lamo foot down and ran off nt top epped, entirely cured of his lameness. That evening tho same dog was observod lying on a doorstep in another part of Rothorhitho. When the door wns opened he ht'ld up ono leg and limpwf in on tho othor three. The occupants of that houso had a pet cat, nnd didn't want a terrier. So the cripple was gently put into the stroot again, and to thn sucpriso of everybody he trotted off without showing a symptom of lameness.
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Evening Post, Volume LXIX, Issue 118, 20 May 1905, Page 13
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DOG THAT SHAMS LAMENESS.
Evening Post, Volume LXIX, Issue 118, 20 May 1905, Page 13
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