OUR PUPPY:

New Zealand Graphic, 6 April 1907, Page 40

OUR PUPPY:

HOW HIS CONDUCT BECAME QUITE HORRID. With mud upon his clumsy feet, He jumped ou Auntie Jane, And Father said, “I’ll have to whip That tiresome dog again.’’ We said, “Oh, don’t!” But Fa 1 her did, And filled our hearts with pain. Just after this, for chastisement, He showed he didn't care. By worrying a goat-skiu rug, And robbing it of hair. To punish him for that, we thought, Was shockingly unfair. While burying a bone, last week. He wrecked a garden-bed. Once more, with grief, we watched our pet To execution led. “He didn’t mean the slightest harm!” Among ourselves we said. But now we’re satisfied he should Be smacked till black and blue. What do you think the wretch has had The wickedness to do? He's gone and chewed up Buster Brown, Before we’d read it through’

—FELIX LEIGH.