NAUGHTY POLL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19061, 4 July 1925, Page 4 (Supplement)

NAUGHTY POLL.

"I can't understand what lias got into Carlos," declared Edward. "He jscd to be the most obeditmt dog you ever saw. He seemed to understand everything I said. It used to bo that when I told him. to stay in tho house he'd stay. But twice lately he's broken through tho screen door and gone out on tho porch." "I'm afraid wo may have to get rid of him if ho won't stay in tho house," sighed Mrs. Grayling. "He's too valuable a dog to bo running out without any one to watch him, especially when thero's so much traffic along tho boulovard. I am thinking very strongly of- sending him down to Aunt Clare for the summer." "'lf only he'd mind, and stay where he's put," protested Edward. "But ho doesn't any morp," answered his mother. Edward had a long talk with the big airodale, who looked up into* 1 his eyes so intelligently. "Look here, old fellow, ho insisted, "when I go away and leave you insido you're to stay there, do you see ? No more dashing through screen doors, I don't know what wo'ro going to do about this. Whipping you when wo find you outside doesn t seem to do a bit of good." Carlos wagged his tail as if to assure him that he really meant to turn over a now leaf. But the very next afternoon they found him on the porch again, and the hook on the screen door pulled out. "That settles it," declared Mrs. Grayling. " I shall write to Aunt Clare at once that we're sending Carlos to her." But the next afternoon Edward came home from school and came in the back way because his shoes were muddy. He could hear Carlos' tail going thumpthump on tho floor in the living room. Then suddenly he heard a shrill voice shouting, "Carlos, Carlos!" The voice came from tho porch. Edward ran in just as Carlos mado for tho door. "So you're the cause of the trouble," said Edward severely to Madame Poll Parrot, who was left on the porch every sunny afternoon. "And here we've been putting the blame on poor Carlos, who was really trying to mind, after all."