A CLEVER SHEEP OOG.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 109, 9 May 1908, Page 7

A CLEVER SHEEP OOG.

A shepherd once, to prove the quickness of his dog, which was lying before the fire in the houso where we were talking, said to me in the middle of a sentence concerning something else, "I'm thinking sir, the cow is in the potatoes." Though he purposely laid no' stress ©n these words and said them in a quiet, unconcerned tone of voice, the dog, who appeared to be asleep, Immediately jumped up, and,, leaping through the open window, scrambled up to the turf roof of the house, from which he could see the potato field. He then, not seeing the cow there, ran and looked into the barn where she was, and finding that all was right, came back to the house. After a short time the shepherd said the same words again, and the dog repeated his lookout; but on the false alarm being given a third time the dog got u\> 2 and wagging his tail looked at his master in the face with so comical an expression of interrogation that he could not help laughing aloud at him v on which, with a slight growl, he laid himself down in his warm corner with an offended air, as if determined, not to be made a fool of again.

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