A DOG STOWAWAY.

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 56, 9 March 1929, Page 15

A DOG STOWAWAY.

Before the.-Santa-Barbara left England the ship's crew received several visits from a stray dog. Time after time it was driven away..' ./Finally tho liner sot. off.- ori-!>ljcr maiden voyage across the Atlantic, and when she. was' two days out" the' dogl appeared again. The' master p.£ tho ship interviewed the,, offender. lie pointed Out that he could have the'stowaway put in chains; he even .hinted --thai; ..unwanted dogs hiivo been ; -.t)ii-.0.w.n,--iti.to,.tli6..aea with forfeits tied round their necks. Then lie pattecKthe stowaway's head, and told the steward" to bring- a plate of meat. We wonder if tho little Knglish- dog would have stowed away on the Santa Barbara if ho had realised that she will uover, never take lrim back to, his native land.' Although this new 15,000----ton niotor-liner was built at Middle's' forougfci slio will run oil a Soutlr American: route. ItHivay be,that .there is a simple reason.,: for the dog's desire, to go to sea. H6-.in'ay li.lvo belonged-to a ship's officer who died or gave him away, and he may.Tiave gone On "board hoping to find his old master. Now, at any.rate, he ha'g'found a new .and kind one.