Dogs Pilot Them to Warmth.

Otago Witness, Issue 2249, 8 April 1897, Page 52

Dogs Pilot Them to Warmth.

Directly cold weather sefc3 in there are in Lsndon a number of peculiar places to which at various times flock numbers of the homeless in search of warmfcfi. Perhaps the most popular of these is against a wall of one of our finest theatres. Overhead

a light metal rooting keeps off ihe ram. Under foot an iron grating runs along the pavement. Ia the basement of the building are fche huge engines required for the electric lighting aud boating of the great building. And fche3e give ( ff so much heat that a scream of warm air flows sfcendily up fche grating, comforting, on many a bitter winter eveuing, a long row of ragged beings who have nothing bufc the streets | before them when the house empties. > Afc another place the pavement over an underground bakehouse becomes, in the early hours of the morning, quite hob from the oven beneath. If the weather is dry, on these warm flags benighted wanderers lie down, or squafc on their heels if ifc is wet. And many a time they bless the friendly policeman who, passiug down the street, uses fche oth^r pavement aud pretends he sorb no opportunity for administering a gruff " Move on." Lost dogs arc invariably the first to find fchtjse generous warming places. And close on their tracks follow their human prototypes.