TWO POMS AND A PARROT

NZ Truth, Issue 1062, 1 April 1926, Page 5

TWO POMS AND A PARROT

g (From "Truth's" Special . T&OUR years ago, Mrs. Augusta Ir^ C. Woods, presumably m a $BM3£ moment of . extravagance, 4§jpV purchased two Pomeranian fi clogs— one a black, the other Ml* an orange. The first cost her £10, the latter £12 10s. They were the innocent cause of their owner, bringing an action against Bert Dutton for their returii. Mrs. Woods was the first to tell her story to Magistrate Poynton. / It seems that she knew Dutton and she wanted a change of dog— — reason not clear. She approached him to buy the two near-dogs,- but he did not want them. Not being able to come to terms on | this score, she stat- ! ed that finally she I lent them to him. | For this she was i to receive a gift : of a green Mcxi- j can parrot. j Dutton obtained j the - dogs m any. I case. Imagine her ! astonishment when I she saw her dog m . the toy dog show. Consider her annoyance when she found it awarded a second prize. She wrote to the head of the toy dog department and said some of the things she thought about Dutton. - , "I got a terrible shock to see my dog- m the show." . : Originally she had offered to sell the two -a nines for £8 m order to buy a bull -dbg, Irish terrier or Airedale, but though Dutton had refused to buy them he had given her a parrot. The parrot died a few weeks later. The inference Mrs. Woods conveyed

—-'I Auckland Representative.) '■'■' to the Bench was Ithat she had been. . diddled out of Something like £S worth of bark and wool. ",. Dufton, who is a life member of the Auckland Dog Club, made a complete denial of this story. , The dogs, he said, were offered him at a figure. He did not want them at that price. ; But as Mrs. Woods thought she would like a parrot-he agrsed to get her one m exchange for her two pets. In fact, it was a feather for fur exchange. % When the exchange was effected and the poms left their mistress she was to have sent him the pedigree of th-< 3 dogs m a few days. The pedigrees never arrived. Though he wiote' for them repeatedly he i:e- , cciv.cd no reply. Mrs Woods swore the letters never arrived. . The parrot which he gave m exchange was one of a shipment. It was a perfectly healthy bird when he handed it over to Mrs. * Woods. 1 m 1 11 1 1 1 1 1 in tt tmii i tiiiii iiiiii t in i ■ 1 1 ti 1 1 1 1 i^ . . u * as .. ne ex " ' plained, they are delicate creatures and suffer from asthma m New Zealand. They should not be left out m washhouses or cold places. ' To show what he thought of the black pom he gave it away; the other ■was useless for the purpose for which he wanted it as no pedigree ever arrived. ■ "Is the ..pedigree so essential?" inquired counsel. ■ "The most important part 'of a dog is its pedigree,"/was Dutton's reply. Mr. Poynton, Avho had listened to the dog and parrojt story for" nearly an ] hour, announced a verdict m favor of the defendant with costs.

Wouldn't you feel annoyed if, after having 1 exchanged two dear little Poms for a Parrot (which died), one of the dogsPoms are classed as dogs— ? took a prize at a show?