A Dog's Memory.

Golden Bay Argus, Volume 4, Issue 37, 8 February 1895, Page 3

A Dog's Memory.

After Many Hears Ho Performs a Learned When Yoeag. A friend in the country had a valuable Newfoundland dog, between whom and a neighboring retriever there was a familj feud of long standing. The Newfoundland, whom we will cal) “Montague accompanied his mistress o'ne day on a ".lit to the home of his rival, “ Capulet." Those were the days of goloshes, now happily departed. The lady removed hers and placed them inside the door of the house before entering the drawing-room. Up started Capulet, who had been lying in ambush, seized a golosh in his mouth,and I was about to make off with it, when he wits pinioned by Montague. A deadly combat ensued. At length Montague, the victor, seizing his mistress's goloshes, ran off with them triumphantly through the village and never stopped until he bad deposited them safely inside his own dour. After that day never did he pass the gates of his enemy’s domain without going in and bearing away some trophy—if only a stick or a stone—as an emblem of his mastery.

Years passed by, during which Montague wandered in many lands. He was an old dog when he retured to his early home, and that of Capulet was inhabited by strangers who knew him not; nevertheless, tne ri.st time be passed by the old scene of combat he disappeared within the gates, and when next seen was running up his own garden path with a huge hunting boot between his teeth.