HE WAS A COALY DOG.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2122, 13 February 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

HE WAS A COALY DOG.

I " Evnect they had some fine pups up at the Chicago dog show," remarked a passenger from Ohio, " but I have a dog at home I wouldn't trade for the best of 'em." "What breed is he?" "Don't know exactly, but I call him o coaly.'' 11 Collie, you mean ?" " No, I mean just what I say— coaly. Mouey won't buy ,that dog. He's a cur, but we couldn't keep house without him. You see, several years ago I trained him to bark at the railway trains as they passed our house. That's his sole businessbarking at trains. He does just whoop her up, especially at coal trains. Well, he annoys the railroad so that every fireman and brakesman on the road has sworn to kill him. Oh, but he is a valuable dog." "Ican'taee where the value comes in." "You can't? Well, you could if you was in my place and had all the coal yon could burn and some to sell thrown right off at your back door free of cost." — "Train Talk." — Chicago Herald. Sam Jones calls waltzing " hugging set to music," and a Massachusetts revivalist calls jt "close bosomed whirlings." A Norristown girl calls it "just heavenly"— and she is the only one of the three who is capable of expressing an unbiased opinion, The Cobden Club is about to present a silver medal to William Scaysbrook, of Todenham, the labourer, who was recently ejected from his cottage, and dismissed from his employment by Sir Peter Pole, under the circumstances which have been already made public. The medal is presented in recognition of his "good service "to the cause in distributing Cobden Club leaflet* in the village. We are informed that £160 has been subscribed for the purchase of a small annuity for bis life. The subscripI tions have come from all parts of the country, and from all classes of society, aud testify to the widespread sympathy created by tbe case, and the determination of those who have enfranchised the Agricultural labourer to protect him in tbe free exercise of his politic*! rights,