MR DOBSON'S EXPERIENCE WITH A DOG.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume 6, Issue 599, 14 January 1879, Page 2

MR DOBSON'S EXPERIENCE WITH A DOG.

Last night Dobson ran across a little friendless pup, and not wishing to see the animal left out m tho cold, took him home. Mrs Dobson hates dogs, but after an argument of an hour or so consented to allow this one to sleep m the house. The animal acted with proper docorum until about one o'clock m the morning when it began to slam around the house and bark vociferously. Mrs D. hinted that old D. had better get up and " put the dog out. " He got up stumbled over the baby, and upset some stands and things before he struck a light. He was just twenty minutes catching the dog and upsetting more furniture than he supposed he ever owned. There was a narrow alley between Dobson's house and the next, and, opening a window on the lower floor, the distracted man hove the dog into the alley and slid back into bed, "as cold as a tombstone," as his wife said. In about five minutes the yelps of the dog and the wails of a cat m the alley reminded the Dobson household that the gate at the entrance of the alley was closed, and the dog was still confined within the legitimate environs of the household. The noise oontinued about ten minutes. Dobson, who was assisted out of bed by his anxious wife,* grabbed a broom, and, leaping out into the alley, was about to sweep .out' the dog, when a ten-pound junk of coal, thrown out of the two-story window of the next house, fell with great accuracy upon his person. The missile was unquestionably meant for the dog or the cat, but it hit Dobson all the same. The unfortunate man now wants the dog tax raised. This is a true story.