WAR ITEMS.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13731, 20 March 1915, Page 2

WAR ITEMS.

. i«» ■ / DICK AND HIS MASTER. Mr Thomas Atkins has a collie which he loves, A dog that he is proud of, and he'd give his life to save. The reason I will tell you, in selected words and few, 'Tis because that collie saved him from the dark and dreary wave. One morning Mr Atkins was feeling rather glum; He'd had his breakfast, true, still he felt a hole down there. He found a biscuit in his vest; he gave a whoop of joy; When he noticed Dick, the collie, barkout: "Now, where's my .share?" "Why, Dick, you do look hungry," said his master, with a, grin, "I'm not so full myself, but — here you are." He smiled again as 'Dick dispatched , that Wscuit in one go. I "Why, after all, it's not so r.mcb, i\v.<\ _ 'twouldn't go so far!" He took a walk along the cliff, and fell into the sea; The collie leapt in after him and bi"ought him safe ashore. And that's why Mr Atkins, in his rough and mannish way, Often says: "You touch that collie, and, by Jove! look out for war!"