STORY OF A WISE TERRIER.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 August 1932, Page 6 (Supplement)

STORY OF A WISE TERRIER.

(Sent'by Rennel Robinson.) •This is the story about a terrier pet • that*. belonged to an English girl. Here is her account of what it used to do. , One day he was run over and had to have one of his front feet amputated. He wore a leather pad. My parents lived at one end of the town and my father’s old home was at the otheq end. Bill much enjoyed going off by himself to visit his master’s old home, but he preferred to go by tram, perhaps because of his lame foot. The trams passed his home, and he would run up the stairs and take a seat on top. In the town the tram-line branched off, and if by mistake he was on the wrong car he would get off at the stop and cross the road and wait for one that would take him straight up the hill. The conductors all knew him, and he enjoyed his rides, which he seemed to take as a matter of course. On Sundays my mother and father went to church ,in the middle of the town, and afterward they would sometimes go to dinner at my father’s old home. Bill went with them, and as soon as he heard the church bells he would look at my father, who would say either “Home, Bill,” or “Ashly Road, Bill.” Ashly Road was his old. home, and if Bill arrived there on a Sunday morning the maid laid for two extra, and if he did not appear she knew my parents would not be there for lunch. Bill never made a mistake.

1 MOSQUITO ARID WARDROBE. LITTLE THINGS TO REMEMBER. It is useful to know that mosquitoes have nice quiet tastes. They prefer to bite men who wear black socks. It is as if they thought, “I am sure I shall like this fellow. We like the same sober, hues. No doubt he will agree with me, but I am sure that other man over there in the yellow pullover would give me indigestion.” A man of science has just been assuring the public that this is so. A tent lined with navy blue proved a lodestar to Palestine mosquitoes, and no one could sleep in it. The men of the U.S. Army had to be given light shirts to replace their regulation navy blue ones. An experiment spread over 17 days showed that mosquitoes kept in a gauze tent where there were a number of coloured boxes would not alight on the yellow one. Only two settled on the white one, while lOS plumped for navy blue, 90 for dark red, and SI for brown. It is as well to remember these things when planning your summer wardrobe.