SAVED BY A DOG.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume VI, Issue 33, 16 August 1890, Page 19

SAVED BY A DOG.

About four thousand anecdotes have peen published under the above title, in which dogs have figured in preserving human life. We had a dog once noted for saving things, but there wasn’t a life among them. He kept the things he saved under the summer kitchen, and his hiding place wasn’t discovered for a long time ; not, indeed, until it became necessary to tear up the kitchen floor to find a good place to ■deposit some chloride of lime during the cholera season ; then we found what had been ‘saved by a dog.’ There were a couple of kitteus, a cat, two or three rats, and a chicken, all very dead ; a large assortment of bones, the remnants of an ottoman, for the theft of which the best hired girl we ever had was discharged ; a tomato can, a couple of teaspoons, a torn volume of Hoyle’s games, an old hoopskirt, a canary bird, a nut-grater, a plaster of Paris pigeon and a cook book. It is rarely that there is so much -saved by a dog, for they are generally improvident.