THE LITTLE DWARF DOG.

Thames Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 10245, 10 December 1910, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE LITTLE DWARF DOG.

The Princess Windischgrata {yoi need not try to pronounce it) is the granddaughter of the Emperor of Austria-. When she was bulb eleven years old, she was known and loved :i<i "the little Princess Elizabeth." There' lived a baker in the city of Vienna whose ■wife was particularly fond of the'little Princess Eliza'b ;lh. Tliis .'baker's wife hadi, in 1394, a tiny white dwarf dog given her, which was' so small that' when -f«j1I grown it could sit on a lady's hand. ,So small a dog had nevier been see:i | before,'and people often camel to th? I house on purpose to look at it. : The baker's wife dressed herself one j day in her Sunday' foest, put the dog lin a basket lined with pink satin, i and' went to the pa-lade where Eliza-1 j 'beth lived. No stranger was allowed ■ to go into the palace except by permission. She showed the dog to the guards, and they were so delighted with it that they managed to get. hei into the palace, and when once in, it was not -very difficult to obtain permission from the Court aiuthoritif s i to see Princess Stephanie, the mother • 01 the little P'rinoess 'Elizabeth. i "Your Royal Highness," said the i baker's wife, "I hope you will allow me to present a. little gift to your daughter," and then she uncovered the basket with the tiny white dog i in it. ■Wasn't the Princess Stephanie delighted with it! And of course th? little Princess Elizabeth was. She loVed it more than any of the rich gifts which she often received. The dog remained very small, and never grew to be more than fire inches high