CANINE AFFECTION.
He was just a fox-terrier pup, full of life and mischievous fun. lie had been at the farm only a short time, but the family all loved him from his pink, puckering nose to his quivering stump of a tail. Then one day he was missing. Calling and whistling availed nothing. The last time the boys had seen him he was racing across one of the paddocks barking excitedly. Three day’s later they came to a log where the ground on both sides was scratched away; it was a hollow log, and the boys raced for an axe. They chopped the log to find the pup and a kangaroo rat dead within. The “foxy” had rushed in after the kangaroo rat, and in endeavouring to get it had scratched back the dirt and decayed wood within the log, until its way of returning was completely hlocked. So seeker and sought had perished. And evidently the old cattle-dog had worked hard but ineffectually to rescue his little friend. What wonderful instinct led it to the correct place?
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18340, 17 December 1927, Page 18 (Supplement)
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178CANINE AFFECTION. Star (Christchurch), Issue 18340, 17 December 1927, Page 18 (Supplement)
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