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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XL, Issue 1, 4 January 1908, Page 51

The publication of a new volume of Dean Hole’s letters lias set the British Press quoting iiis most famous stoiics. The following is the well-known story o; the pup which ate half the curate’s sermon, as told by the Dean in a letter to a person who asked for the subsequent history of the animal: — , “You will be pleased to hear that when the dog had inwardly digested the sermon which he had torn, he turned over a new leaf. He had been sullen and morose, he became ‘a very jolly dog.’ He had been selfish and exclusive in his manger, he now generously gave it up to an aged poodle. He had been noisy and vulgar, he became a quiet, gentlemanly dog, lie never growled again; and when he was bitten he always requested the cur who had torn his flesh to be so good, as a particular favour, to bite him again. He has established a reformatory in the Isle of Dogs, for perverse puppies, and an infirmary for Mangy Mastiffs in Houndsditch. He has won 26 medals from the Humane Society for rescuing children who had fallen into the canal. He spends six days of the week in conducting his brothers and sisters, who have lost their ways, to the Dogs’ Home, anil it is a most touching sight to sec him leading the blind to church from morning to night on Sundays.”