HOW HE KILLED THE DOG.
There are move -ways of killing a dog than choking it with butter. But a man at the Bay of Islands has discovered that there are some ways that are quite as dangerous as a mad dog at large. He had been making experiments with dynamite, and hearing that there was an obnoxious tyke that was doomed to execution, lie begged that the criminal might be handed over to him for scientific purposes. He fastened a charge of dynamite round the dog's neck, but in the excitement of the moment forgot to tie the animal to a post. When the thing was fixed to go off the man skipped away to watch the effect. Then the dog made tracks after him. The biped uttered a yell and started to do a mile in the best time on record. The dog thought there was some sport, on, and went in pursuit of the man. People say it was one of the most exciting spectacles they ever witnessed. At last exhausted nature gave away. The man dropped on one side of a fence, and the dog exploded. on the other. Then the man got up, disentangled himself from the fragments of the dog, and went home to wash away the gore, hair, and powder, and change his clothes. He says scientific experiments are no doubt very proper, but there is an incongruity between dynamite and dogs which is not to be got over.
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Observer, Volume 5, Issue 114, 18 November 1882, Page 14
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246HOW HE KILLED THE DOG. Observer, Volume 5, Issue 114, 18 November 1882, Page 14
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