AN IRON LINK PARTED.

Northern Advocate, 14 August 1935, Page 4

AN IRON LINK PARTED.

an iron link parted and Shaggy-Dog was free. It was too late for apologies. Like a cyclone Shaggy-Dog bore down on ■nibbles.,, .who, .tail between .logs, and

ears drooping, made off. Never has a puppy scampered harder. Where he was going he cared net; his one concern was to get somewhere quickly. But puppy’s legs were no l match for the long bounds of Shaggy-Dog. On it came at racing pace, head down and intent upon revenge ... a nice revenge, though—nothing of the snarling, snapping, biting kind. A broad head butted Tibbies from the rear, and a little ball of astonishment went somersaulting through the air. One could hot describe the .landing as perfect. An airman might have said ‘‘the old crate landed wheels uppermost." for the puppy came down Hat on his back. For fully five seconds Tibbies lay there dumbfounded. Never, never in his four months of puppyhood had anything like this happened l before. It was Shaggy-Dog's turn to smile. Perhaps Young Northlanders might profit from the experience of this Wha-n-garei puppy: Nemesis descends (o deal out justice at inosl unexpected limes.’