A DOG AND TIER DROWNED PUPPIES [To the Editor of
the SPECTATOR.]
Sin,—You may like to print the following narrative which I take from the Adelaide Advertiser :-
" A retriever mother, owned by Mr. Frank Appleyard, of Koornang Road, Carnegie, has probably established a canine record for sagacity, and four of her puppies a record for clog luck. Sixteen puppies were born. Three of them died as the result of overcrowding. Of the remaining thirteen, Mr. Appleyard took nine and drowned them in a bath. He buried them in a garden, stamped the earth down and replaced a slab of pathway stone on top. He then went to business. For half an hour after Mr. Appleyard's departure the mother wandered disconsolate over the garden seeking the missing puppies. Finally she located the 'burial ground, and excavating sideways retrieved all nine corpses and took them to the maternal couch. There she kneaded the little bodies, and, by some means, expelled the water, and on Mr. Appleyard's arrival home in the evening four of the drowned nine were alive and contentedly feeding from the mother. Mr. Appleyard declares that he will never attempt to drown anothei of Nellie's pups."
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