DOG'S PATHETIC VIGIL.
Six months ago Richard Knight was murdered near his hut in the bush at Coldstream (Vic). The hut is now deserted, excepting by Knight's Irish terrier, which sits all day under his late master's bed on an old waistcoat which once belonged to him. When evening falls the dog runs to a farmhouse half a mile away, to eat up table scraps saved for him. Then he returns to his lonely vigil in the hut. The public have almost forgotten the murder, but not the terrier, and if there is any truth in the saying that "murderers always revisit the scene of their crime," the dog will be there waiting when the time comes. If a stranger approaches the hut the terrier growls and sniffs suspiciously; then, satisfied that he is not his master's, slayer, he goes back to the old waistcoat.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15547, 3 March 1914, Page 9
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145DOG'S PATHETIC VIGIL. New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15547, 3 March 1914, Page 9
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