An Accommodating Dog.
Mr Littleton, who lives in a somewhat lonely suburb, acquired a dog as a protection against unwarned intruders. Some time after the dog died in very suspicious circumstances. To an intimate friend Mr Littleton explained the matter. "You see," he said, "I bought the dog and trained him myself. I got him so that he'd bark whenever a person stepped inside the gate, and I thought I wae safe from burglars. Tien my wife wanted me to train him to carry bundles, and I did. If I put a parcel in his mouth the dog would keep it there till someone took it away. " One night I woke up and heard someone in the next room. Jumping out of bed quietly. I seized a poker, and peered through the open door. They were there — three "Burglars and the dog." "Didn't he bark?" interrupted his friend. x , "Of course not : he was too busy." "Busy! What doing?" " Carrying a lantern for the burglars."
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Otago Witness, Issue 2803, 4 December 1907, Page 91
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165An Accommodating Dog. Otago Witness, Issue 2803, 4 December 1907, Page 91
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