FAITHFUL CURLY.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIX, Issue XXI, 13 November 1897, Page 671

FAITHFUL CURLY.

A little girl, whom we will call Dolly, was one day walking along the beach with her nurse. All of a sudden she heard a whining sound, and looking amongst the rocks for some time, she at last discovered a poor dog with a large stone tied to its neck, with a piece of rope as if somdiody had lieen trying to drown it. Dolly happened to have some biscuits with her, and these she gave to the poor dog. So she got him to follow- her home and got a box and put some straw in it for him to sleep on. The dog was a Newfoundland, and her father told her she might keep Curly (as she afterwards called him). Two years went by, and Curly had grown fatter, and his coat was nice and clean, for Dolly took him to the lieach every day for a swim. As she was having a bathe one day, she got out of her depth, and was nearly drowned when Curly saw- her, and swam out to her anil saved her life as she had once saved his, for if it had not lieen for the dog she would have been drowned. When she got home, she told her father how Curly had saved her, and he was so pleased that he gave the dog a lietter meal than he had ever tasted. —B. M. B.