The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-01-12

tant part of the garden. It was quite a pretty sight to see him stand on his hind legs to receive biscuit, or piece of gingerbread, which was the greatest treat we could give him,
 l One night, in the middle of a cold winter, our servants were much alarmed on going to bed about eleven | o'clock to hear noise like gentle ham | merlng in an unoccupied room. A num- Der of houses had been broken into just about the time, and the police had been | going from door to door urging house. | holders to see to the barring of their | windows at night, so naturally we were | all on the alert, and now we thought
 our turn had come. The whole family
 proceeded, as quietly as they could, at once to the suspected chamber, armed with pokers and lights; the door was
 courageously flung open and there on l the hearth-rug sat-not a burglar, but
 our Jack" with his one ear cooking as
 usual, and an amused expression on his l sly face, as if he were enjoying his
 practical joke. He had been hammer | ing the floor with his hind paws, as he
 always did when he was hungry, to at | tract attention.
 But this was nothing to his next es- capade, when he feigned death to es-
 cape destruction. The garden gate was
 generally kept locked for his benefit; | but one day, as ill luck would have it, , 1t was left open, and huge Dandy Din | mont watching his opportunity, ran in ] and caught Jack by the leg before he
 knew what was happening One vail | of pain, and he fell down apparently
 stone dead. The wall brought out his
 young mistress, who carefully carried
 her pet into the house in her apron, and | laid him tenderly in the terriers bas- 1 ket. How I wish I were a doctor!" she said, land could set Jacks leg!' | Her little brother hearing this, ran off, without a word to any one, to fetch a l young doctor he knew little-a clever 1 surgeon. Unfortunately, the doctor was I out, and the boy had no chance of ex- | blaming to him what had happened. | When the doctor came in, his landIady ] naturally told him that a little boy had | come after him in hot haste-she could l not make out what was the natter some accident-something about brok- l en leg.
 The doctor thought it might be as
 we'll to come round and see what was the matter. q hope it is nothing seri-
 ous?" he kindly asked, when ushered l into the drawing room. Jacks" mis- tress was much distressed that the doc tor should have been troubled just then, | when so many people were down with | influenza, and his time was so precious
 Its only our rabbit she stammered,
 that has broken it's leg" For min | ute the doctor looked as if he heard amiss, and then burst into a merry peal ] of laughter May I see the patient" ?" he asked in his most professional tone.
 We all adjourned to the sick-room, only
 to find the basket empty in which
 Jack" had been left for dead and the
 rogue was sitting on the hearth-rug
 cooking his ear, and looking funniel
 than ever. He tried to hide when he
 saw the doctor but we speedily caught
 him, when 1t was found that his leg had
 been severely bitten-might have beer
 dislocated, but not broken. He had
 simply been feigning death, as many
 animals do when they are frightened;
 but how he managed to set his own leg
 remained puzzle!-London Spectator