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Show A DOG THAT PICKED OUT THE RIGH ROOM AMONG 500 "On one occasion,! says the English Eng-lish actor, Lewis Waller, In tho Strand, "wo arrived In Southport too late at night to secure rooms, and accordingly ac-cordingly my fox terrier and I hlod ourselves to the nearest hotel At this particular establishment, however, how-ever, dogs were not admitted, aud it was only after the exercise of not a little persuasion that I obtained a gnid zing permission for my four fooled fool-ed friend to spend tho night In a room in the basement which was used, for the most part, for cleaning b -ots. "Having reen tho dog securely tied up by a lead. 1 retired for the night My room, I remember, was on tho third floor, and was situated in a loui: corridor passage, both sides of which were lined with bedrooms. In the middle of the night however, I was awakened by the sound of vig-' orous scratching on the panels of my door, and on jvmplng out of bed to see who the wou'd-bo intruder was, I found my fox terrier seated on tho mat outeide. I was too tired to go down and seo bow my faithful companion com-panion had managed to "burst his bonds," but, In any case, although It was, perhaps, not a difficult matter for him to free himself, his task In finding my room In a strange hotel containing several hundred bedrooms cannot have been an easy one, though, as a matter of fact, I suppose the little chap must have sniffed at tho boots placed outside each door until he succeeded in finding mine." |