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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13779, 18 June 1908, Page 9

Small boys played a prank upon a Wellington butcher recently. The distributor of meat left his cart standing in the street while he was delivering some goods at a customer's back door. 1 ' A couple of urchins had » clear run to a piece of) mischief, and did not miss' the chance. They tampered with the vehicle, and retired to a sate place to watch for the sequel. The unsuspecting butcher moved his equipage along the road till he was hailed by a woman, armed with a large plate. The driver descended, opened the door at the back of the cart to get the goods which the lady desired, and. sortie meat, which was decidedly not dead, jumped out. It was a frisky fox-terrier, with a siting of sausages in its mouth. The woman naturally got the greatest flight-of her life. She was aghast at the. spectacle; her arms flew up, and the plate cluttered to the stony ground, where it was shattered into many pieces. The small boys mm well pleased with the incident, and, go it is eaid, .was the.-'dog. . ■