A VARIABLE CUR.
Overheard in a train: -First Passim ger: Expect they had some fine pups up at the dog- show, but I have a dog nt home I wouldn't give for the best of 'em.’ Second Passenger: What breed i» he ? 'Don't exactly know, lint I call him a coaly.' •('ollie, you mean?' ’No; I mean just what I say coaly Money wouldn'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 business, barking a! trains. He does just wlioop her up. especially at coal trains. Well, he annoys the railway men so that every driver and fireman on the road has sworn to kill him. Oh. but he's a valuable dog.’ •| can't see where the value comes 'You can't? Well, you could if you were in my place and had all the eonyou could burn and some to sell thrown right off at your back door free of cost.’
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXII, Issue XVII, 29 April 1899, Page 577
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177A VARIABLE CUR. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXII, Issue XVII, 29 April 1899, Page 577
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