Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1899-06-01
AN EDUCATED SMALL DOC.
FOND Of Coffee and Chocolates =
Take Whisky When III.

FOND OF C00OO ana &nOCDAAb~ 49,
Takes Whisky When IN.
Dandy is a very small. plump little
canine, who resides uptown, and VINO
will go down into histo-; as an amman
with very human tastes, says the New
York Times. He is fond OF chocolates
| takes coffee every morning and a
been known to take whisky. That.
| however, is not intended to imply mat
Landy is given to tlppling or looks
with pleasure upon the wine wRe1 u
Is red upon ordinary occasions-Per
| ish the thought. Dandy,a excellent
| complexion, bright eyes and general
| activity and interest IN the world az
large would give the lie to such a
thought.
Dandy is a tiny black-and- Tar ter
rier OF the variety usually known as
the toy dog" He resides with =
member Of an old New York family.
Miss Griffin, on Twelfth street. when
he is not travelling with his mistress
and he has never been known to take
whisky but nee in the Eve years OF
his life. That was the only time in
his existence that he was ever III. He
had taken dinner, with fresh pork "a
the piece de resistance, and it did not
agree with him. He gave evidence OF
having a very human pain in his small
interior and his mistress gave him
the only thing she knew that
might relieve him-a little whisky.
He semed to like it." said Miss
Griffin, IAN it really did him good.
] had one dog die in the train when
| was coming from San Francisco. He
was twelve years old and the doctor
said the motion Of the train affected
his heart. l think, though, l might
lave saved him il / had had a little
vhisky."
Miss Griffin is noted for her pets
She is one Of the last of her family.
has always been fond of pets. and has
come now to consider them better COM
panions than human beings. She has
a nice little terra-cotta colored German
squirrel, chipmunks. gold fish. and
turtles. as we'll as little Dandy, her
favorite pet. For a Christmas pres
ent Dandy had a big basket, like a COW
cred market basket, with red flannel
AoA q q Coo III IA Sal
present for q bed. and later will he
his travelling carriage Dandy has been
quite a traveller, but he has not coy
cred as much territory as his mistress
who has Travelled all over this part
OF the world and through a great part
Of Europe. In 1900 she expects to go
abroad again to cover the part of the
continent she has not seen yet. and
Dandy. in his basket, will go along.
He is a comfortable travelling compan-
ion, and no objections are ever made
to his presence On train or boat. ow-
ing his mistress thinks, to his being
such a little fellow. His greatest mis-
fortune, and that Of his mistress as
well, is in being stolen and then
brought back when a sufficient reward
is offered. Dandy takes his meals very
much as his mistress takes hers. in
the morning she has oatmeal and milk
and SO has Dandy, ard, as she has
coffee. Dandy also has q little coffee
poured into his milk. For dinner at
noon he has meat, and at night no
takes milk again. Chocolates he takes
at all times Of the day, and they do
not hurt him at all, his mistress say
He takes a chocolate wafer at one
swallow, as he would 4 pill. and a big
uare chocolate he d:sposes OF with
a bite o. two. Miss Griffin was born
on Beach street, in New York. Her
father was Charles Alexander Griffin.
a lawyer, and her grandfather, George
Griffin, was a prominent member OF
tho Now York bar.