THE DOG'S COLD NOSE.

Otago Witness, Issue 2426, 12 September 1900, Page 44

THE DOG'S COLD NOSE.

Why the clog's nose is always cold I'll tell you, friends, as I've been told, Weil, years and years and years a^o (How many, I don't really know)? .There came a lain on sea and shore, Its like was never seen before Or since. It fell unceasing down, * Till all the world began to drown j But just before the heavy pour, An old, old man— his name was Noah— Built Tilm,an ark, that he might save His family iiom a watery grave; And in it, also, he designed To shelter two ol every kind Of beast. Well, friends, when it was done, Still darkest clouds obscured the sun, But Falher Noah safe led the way, While after him, in close array, Came all the animals in pairs — The lcopprds, ■'i^ers, wolves, and bears, The doer, the hippopotamuses, The rabbits, pqmrreld, elks, walrusses, The camels,, -;oat.«, and cats and donkeys, The beavers, tall giraffes, and monkeys, The rats, tho big rhinoceroses, The dromedaries and the horses, The sheep, the mice, the kangaroos, Hyenas, elephants, koodoos, And hunfiiods more — 'twould take all day, My monds, .so many uames to say; And at th ? very, very end

Of the iirocossion Noah's good friend, The family dog, with merry din, Helped drive the crowd of creatures in, And then, with loud, exultant bark, He gaily sprang aboaid the ark. Alas! co crowded was the space, He could 3iot ibid in it a place, So, patiently, he turned about, Stood half-way in and half-way out, And those extremely heavy showers Descended through nine hundred hours,. And several more, and at their close Most frozen was his honest nose, And never could it lose again, The dampness of that dreadful rain; And this is why — so I've been told — We find the dog's nose always cold. ■ — Scotsman.