21 NOVEMBER 1896, Page 31

A DOG-STORY.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR"] SpR,—We have an old broken-haired white terrier, who can -do almost everything except speak. He took lately to killing the fantail pigeons, who are so tame that they did not try to escape from him. For this offence he was duly chastised on more than one occasion, and then shut up in his kennel all day, which he hates. At last he gave us to understand that if he was allowed to come out again he would kill no more pigeons, and on this understanding he was released. A few days after, the gardener saw a strange upheaving going on in one of the beds on the lawn, and on looking closer, found a fantail pigeon buried alive, but not killed.—I am, Sir, &c.,

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