A DOG AND A MOTOR-CAR.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—You may be interested in a curious accident to a dog—a comedy, fortunately, not a tragedy—which happened a few days ago. I was being driven along a country road in a motor- car when a dog doubled in front of the car in such a way that it was impossible for the chauffeur to avoid it. The dog disappeared underneath, and I looked behind expecting to see the dog on the road, meanwhile calling to the chauffeur to stop. I did see a dog on the road, but it was running along quite happily. I assumed that this was the dog we had " run over," and told the chauffeur to drive on. We had not gone far, how- ever, when I heard a noise that sounded like the cry of a dog. I was so sure of it that I told the chauffeur to stop. I now thought that the dog I had seen on the road behind must have been another dog, and that the dog we had run over was some-
how -caught underneath the car. We looked there but could find nothing. Accordingly we drove on again. After going a few hundred yards further I again heard the cry, and again we stopped. This time we found a dog suspended by its collar on the starting-handle. It was at once released, and ran away quite unhurt. As the starting-handle is large, it was an extra- ordinary thing that it should have slipped so neatly between the collar and the dog's neck. Surely this mishap must be unique. But the dog is to be congratulated; without injury to himself he is now "cured for life "—he will not, I think, double in
front of a motor-ear a second time.—I am, Sir, &c., M. H.
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