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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11948, 19 May 1933, Page 6

THANK YOU!

TRUE STORIES OF ANIMAL GRATITUDE.

Some years, ago a golf caddie ai Cooinbe Hill, near Kingston, found a white pigeon which had been wounded on the fairway. The bird bad a broken leg and an injured wing, fihlad picked it up, gave it a drink, and took it to the caddie- master, who administered first-aid. The bird is well known to golfer* on the famous coarse. It struts about th-G greens putting is in prngross. Whilst tlm players are driving off it sits on the should? °r Load of the caddie who had been kind to it two years ago. In the Board Room of' King’s College Hospital hangs a picture of two fox-terriers bringing, a coolie there for treatment. , The incident occurred in 1887, and is ivell authenticated. The owner of the (Jogs was a Mi • Hunt a well-known bookseller. .

His explanation of the dogs’ sagacity was that' they lived so near the hospital they must have seen people who had mot with accidents taken there for treatment, and the y used their, knowledge, for the benefit. °? their , friend',..the collie. Quite recently• a ferried- followed IBs master’s fuperai to .the parish church He had..been .found by, ,ln s ,‘.o)vncr half-starved and bad become a gi-cat pet and bis constant companion. AVhen lie wfis refused admission to the church- -he showed his teeth ,ami was allowed to enter. After attending the - service- the 'dog placcdvhiniself between, the clorgyhnm and the coffin and .walked, to the cemetery. During'the war a Bromlew girl took on tlie ta/sk of driving a local baker’s van, which was drawn by ' a mare named-Betsy... The, girl, and steed became.'greatly' .attached, but shortly after the .Armistice .the girl gave 'i|P her- job) to an .ex’-soltiior. • , . : presently came '.an ‘urgentrrequpsb thst the girl should ,-return, as Betsy was ailing .and refusing, .fo-cd.., . She did so, and the mare recovered rapidly- V ’ ■ :