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Show CAT LED DOG INTO TRAP. The open hatch, necessarily left open for ventilation, is one of the perils of the sailor, but a sailor dog aboard the four-masted bark Earl of Dunntore in the Erio. basin took a flying leap of thirtv-five feet into the forehold and landed on the ballest like a rubber ball. "Foodie " Capt. Mencke's water spaniel span-iel from San Francisco, was chasing the ship's oat. She led him into the trap. The at ran across the covers of the midships hatch, with the spaniel at her Vfp,- ' She avoided the forehatch. which was open, and fhe dog. racing straight, lumped' plumb into it. landing in a limp ball upo the. stones and, earth in .the hllc -wasn't very lively when an ap- prentice sailor descended and picked him up. but in five minutes, Poodle i was frisking and ready for another bout with the wily cat. New York World. |