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Show A Good Dog, .nd Welgh, Pond A weU known resident of Oakland hat a large Newfoundland dog that is a won- "1 hlS lLaynd ha welK ahout 160 pounds. The gentleman walked into the business office, accompanied by his dog, and purchased an additional paper to mail to a relative in Illinois. The paper was wrapped np, and after placing a 2-cent stamp on the wrapper and addressing: ad-dressing: it the gentleman gave the paper to the dog. The owner got into his buggy and drove to the postofflce, the dog running alongside the horse. At the iwstoffice the gentleman stopped, but the dog didn't. He mounted the steps, trotted down the corridor to the receiving boxes, and, taking hold of one end of the paper in his teeth, he inserted the other in the opening into the paper box,.and with his nose pushed it through the hole. He had no hesitancy about brushing his wet coat up against the light check trousers of several young men standing near the box, and when one of them wanted to help him to push the paper through the opening ho growled, as inuchantoay he knew his business and could get along without outside assistance. After depositing the paper in the box the dog bounded out again to his master, who was waiting for him. "It took me two weeks to train him to do that trick, but it paid me for the trouble," said the gentleman. Pittsburg Dispatch. |