ON THE BOUNDARY.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 32, 7 February 1908, Page 3

ON THE BOUNDARY.

[BT TELEGKAPH. — PRESS ASSOCIATION.] CHRISTCIIURCII, 6th February. i There is ono dog at, least in Central! Otaco which is certainly leading a "dog's life' of the worst kind. A Christchuich \isitor to that locality states that tho canine is chained up right on tho brink of tho Clutha river, on tho road from Clyde to Cromwell, and is what is termed a "boundary keeper," his duties being to baric at stray sheep to keep them off. Tho enquiries made of the driver elicited ths information that tho pooi brute had been chained dp in solitary confinement for about five months, and had only onco during (hat long period had a brief interval of liberty, tho occasion being one on which he found life intolerable, and made a dash for freedom. Ho was captured and chained up once more ; and there he will probably remain till lie rusts out or dies of jnelancholia. Ilis only shelter from the elements consists of a small box, which lies on its side, and his bill of faio is a keg of watr>r. let into tho ground, and the bundles of raw meat thrown to him by the dmcr as the coach passos. On tho occasion in question the exiled animal was so dolighted at tho sight of human activity that, ho nearly wagged Ins tail off in ecatasv, and took absolutely no notice of the moat thrown to him. "How does ho fare when the coach happens to miss a day .'" queried the passenger of the driver. "Oh, then ho doesn't get anything, that's, a 11,," was the answer.