PUPPY'S HAPPY FORTNIGHT.
After a fortnight, a wedding present of a small Irish terrier, about 11 weeks old, Jiaa been returned by a> young couple living at Streatham to tho donor (the wife's mother) on- account of iti> destructive habits. During this time the puppy has scattered a. tea service, breaking several pieces; broken a china teapot, being found! curled up in the tea-cosy fvurroundedi by tea leaves; dug a large hole in the lawn; eaten parts of a straw work basket; uprooted a. bed of water-lilies; killed a sparrow; hidden the wife's stockings in his kennel, and eaten the tassels off the table cover. His last? glorious exploit was a mad fight with a dog four times his own size* on Whit Monday.
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Mataura Ensign, 20 July 1914, Page 5
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124PUPPY'S HAPPY FORTNIGHT. Mataura Ensign, 20 July 1914, Page 5
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