MU DOBSON'S EXPRRIEXCE WITH A DOG.

North Otago Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2081, 3 January 1879, Page 3 (Supplement)

MU DOBSONS EXPRRIEXCE WITH A DOG.

List night Dobson ran across a little friendless pup, and not wishing to see the animil loft out in the cold, took him home. Mrs Dobson hates dogs, but after an argument of ati hour or so consented to allow this one to sleep in the house. The animal acted with proper decorum until about one o'clock in the morning, when it began to flam around the house and bark vociferously. Mrs D. hinted that old D. had better get up and " put the dog •ufc." He got up, stumbled over the baby, and upset come stands and things before he struck a light. He was jmt twenty minutes catching the dog and upsetting more furniture than he supposed he ever owne<l. There was a narrow alley between Dobsons house and the next, and, opening a window on the lower floor, the distracted man hove the dog into the alley and slid back into bed, "as cold as a tombstone," as his wife said. In about five minutes the yelps of the dog and the wails of a cat in the alley reminded the Dobson household that the gate at the entrance of the alley was closed, and the dog was still confined within tho legitimate environs of the household. The noiio continued about ten minutes. Dobson, who was assisted out of bed by his anxious wife, crabbed a broom, and, leaping out into the alley, was about to sweep out the dog, when a ten-pound junk of coal, thrown out of the two-storey window of the next house, fell with great accuracy upon his person. The missile was unquestionably meant for the dog or the cat, but it hit Dobson all the Bimo. The unfortunate man now wants the dog tax raised. This is a true story.