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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2090, 31 January 1896, Page 4

devoted dogs. \ writer relates a story of two fox terriers, Tan and Tally, which belonged to a physician, and were the playmates of his little daughter Mabel. They had been her companions from her babyhood, and she was now five years old. On the day in question, she and they were frolicking in the garden, when the little girl's attention was attracted by a peculiar noise in a bush at her elbow. She peered into the branches to see what had made the noise. Instantly the head of a snake reared itself before her. and the sound of its rattle was repeated. Mabel stood as if fascinated. The gardener, at work not far off, screamed to her to run, and hurried as fast as he could to her rescue. Hurry as he might, however, he would have been too late but for the dogs. They saw the little girl's danger, and threw themselves between her and it, worrying the snake till the man came up and killed it. They were quite aware of their own danger; again and again, when camping out with their master, they had shown the greatest terror at the sound of the snake's rattles; but they could not see the child injured. When the mother came in answer to the shouts of the gardener, she found Mabel safe, but both dogs were already in the agonies of death.—'' Schooldays." HER CHOICE. "What kind of fruit do you love best?" He questioned the maiden fair—"The juicy apple with rosy cheelcs, Or the sweet and luscious pear?" The gentle maiden smiled and said: "The fruit that pleases me Better than all the fruits 1 know, Is the fruit of the Christmas-tree."