AIREDALE'S ADVENTURES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18547, 3 November 1923, Page 3 (Supplement)

AIREDALE'S ADVENTURES.

LIFE OF A FAMOUS DOG. 50.000 MILES BY LAND AND SEA. " Vol '• an Airedale dog, can claim to have had one of the most adventurous of canine lives. He travelled 50,000 miles by Ma and land and,saw four years' service in the Navv. Now Ik- has had his life story published and the Kin- and Queen Alexandra have accepted copies. - When I joined the Navy I was barely six weeks old," explains " Yd," which is short for his real name. " Yelverstone. ' His first sea voyage was to the Cameroon*, in Africa, where was looked after by a iiiigcr called " Snowball." He '.vent up the Cameroon mountain and had an unpleasant adventure, being attacked l.v German police dogs. Max and Carl, who* had been left behind and adopted hv British troops. He saved a little terrier's life, had an encounter with snakes, and took part in a leopard hunt. A chimpanzee tried to steal hi" rations, and he he it him, while many other adventures befell " Yd " before he got back to England again. ... , When he retired, from the Navy he ■ Waited as a collecting: dog, and has aJrradv collected over £3CO. He has been presented to the Queen-Mother, and Tiaa |j '■ made a " dumb appeal '.' 'at Queen s Hall for docs' welfare. ... Sir Ernest Shackleton wrote in his -' album: — . ... " Many years of close association with ■ roan and doe .has shown me that in die : .•" latter animal arc the same fine trails ol lovalitv and devotion to be found, ■ and .• from all I hear of Yelvrrstone. he is.one |;f- ; of those dugs who show man how good a p doj tan be." *