New Knight's Little Pal

Manawatu Times, Volume LVI, Issue 5618, 6 April 1931, Page 10

New Knight's Little Pal

For seven days after his knighthood had been announced in the New Year honours list, Sir James Sexton, M.P., the veteran leader of the London dockers, was unable to acknowledge the hundreds of congratulations he received because his time was taken up with nursing his best friend, “my little terrier Betty.” “I fear I sha 1 not be able to save the sight of my little pal,” Sir James ,said, “although I have had expert ad'vicc and. I am giving her an elaborate treatment four times a day. We are inseparable. Poor old girl, she knows that there is something wrong, and sire seems to fear that her master will take the usual merciful course that is followed in' the case of incurable pets. She scents the danger, and is clinging to me with, pathetic tenacity. “Betty sleeps under my bed at night, and although she can no longer see me she recognises me by my voice, and she is developing the uncanny instinct of the b ind.- Wherever I go she follows. Animal lovo is irresistible, and my friends will understand that Betty in her present distress must come first.”