TRUE STORY OF A DOG.

Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1420, 25 October 1923, Page 6

TRUE STORY OF A DOG.

Here is a true story of a dog which stole carrots to give to a sick horse Mr Burgess, a resident in Paris (says the Newcastle Weekly Chronicle") had noticed his Irish terrier for some weeks past hanging around a certain greengrocer's shop. One day he saw the terrier scuttling along the Avenue Hoch carrying a bunch of carrots. Mr Burgess watched his dogenter a stable with the carrots, and leave the stable without them. Again,

on the following day, the like happened. But this time the owner followed the dog to the stable. It was barking and wagging its tail, and it trotted to a stall where a lame horse greeted it with unmistakable signs of satisfaction. The terrier jumped into the horse-box. and laid its bunch of carrots at the feet of the sick horse, which munched them. They later proved to have been stolen from the greengrocery shop. Mr Burgess whistled to his dog, which came to him. He patted the dog on the back, and took it round to the plundered shop, where he paid three francs, the estimated value of the carrots hitherto stolen for the sick horse. Further. Mr Burgess bade the proprietor hand to the terrier a bunch of the best carrots for his sick friend daily until further notice.