One of Mr Chauncoy Depow’s stents relates to a dog. “ When I. was about fourteen years old,"said the famous American raconteur, 11 my father lived on the old farm up at Poughkeepsie. When in town I saw for the first time a spotted coach clog. I bought it and took it home. When father saw it his good old Puritan face fell. ‘Why, Cluiuncey,' he said sadly, 1 we don’t want any spotted dog on 11.0 farm. It would diivo the cattle crazy.’ 1 No, ho won’t, father,' I said, 1 lie’s a blooded dog.’ The next day it was raining, and I took the dog out in the woods to try him on a coon, but the rain was too much for him. It washed the spots off. That night I took the dog back to the dog dealer with a long face. Said I: — 1 Look at that dog, sir. The spots have all washed off.' ‘ Great guns, boy !' exclaimed the dog dealer, ‘ there was an umbrella went with that dog. Didn’t you get an umbrella ?’ “
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1267, 11 June 1896, Page 27
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