A GIRL AND A DOG

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 47, 23 August 1930, Page 20

A GIRL AND A DOG

Rover was three months old when he i was given to Nancy Bell as a present on * her fourth birthday. ''n He was a little Retriever -with .1 , brown curly coat and beautiful brown i eyes that ahvays seem to bo changing 1 colour. When Nancy -was nearly five years -i old an incident happened that made f Nancy love Rover all the more. i Sho was out with nurse ono day when J the ball Nancy had in .her hand rolled, out into the road. Nancy at once ran < out into the- road tc get it. - s Nurse, who noticed at last that her' little charge was missing, looked wildly' : around, and to her horror saw Nancy < in the middle of the road with a motor- - lorry bearing down upon her; Nurso ' screamed, and then fainted. ■: Rover, seeing his young mistress in i danger, dashed towards her and just,.: managed to get her out of the way in ' time. . ■ - ■ A great fuss was made over Eovcr, and he was glad to start homo; but to> < his disgust a greater fuss was made.' over him when he reached there. One night Rover was awakened by '< voices and footsteps'. He Was lifted ; out of his ■ kennel and found himself ' looking up into the face of his mistress's mother. Mistress's mother was talking. ■ "1.-! don't know how it happened," she said. "All I remember was to awaken and find my room full'of smoke. I atonce raised the alarm and then loft the building." . "Is everybody safe?" said anothervoice. ' - "Yes, I think so. But I forgot. Where is my Nancy? " "I oxpect she is with her muse, but lot us go and see." When Hover was near the house ho saw that it was 011 lire.' •. They found • nurse, but-Nanoy was1 MiiiniiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiTiiiiniiliilKiiriiiiiiiiiiii

not with nurse. "I was awakened by; the alarm, and- ——" " .. Nancy's mother did not Wait' .for nurse to finish her sentence/but,' dropping Rover, she ran towards the burning house crying,. "She;.must Tie in tha house., she must bo in-the- house!" '. The mother never reached thd house, for she was stopped by firem.cn whea sho was half-way towards it, and ;before she could say anything she had fainted. -■' .-: •■ Rover 's first thought when 'he hoard of his young mistress's danger was to save. her. ' ' • Bachig towards tho doorway hb-dis-appear'cd into' the bla'ziiig buildijig. Once inside the house Hover made 'towards the nursery, and 'there ho.'found his young mistress unconscious. Ha took hold of her dress with' his teeth, and, carying her in.-this fashion, ho • made for the stairway, . But the. stairway was on fire, so tliei'e.' was. no .chaiCG to get down that.way. .Rover," notto. bo outdone, made his .way.tb .the }?indoTr,, as lie knew 'this \vas the cJiilj?; chance of saving his mistress's life. The crowd down below' Were looking at the house waiting to'seo'tho 'walls and roof fall in, when 'somebody shouted out, "Look! Look!.' There's' thg dog and'it has the child!" _' Theory,,was, taken ttp' everywhere, imd. the brokenhearted ■ moth er gave one..-glad; cry Pour firemen quickly made their; way to the ground below t'h'e^viiido'w, Which was two floors up. Holding a blanket by the four corners they .yolled.QUt, "Drop her, drop her., i: Roycr.''. ~"7. The bravo dog understood and let iho child go. Who'll she safely .reached the blanket. Rover let out ono short joyful bark, and, gathering himself together, gave a mighty spring out- of;the windown. Luckily ho landed safely, and was made the hero of the hour. ■ __.-. "THE PRINTER." Paradise." ■■':' ..■•■•■-.-■