Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1893 — Clever Collies [ARTICLE]

Clever Collies

The troupe of eight collies at the Royal Aquarium, London, enacts quito a little stage play. After performing some clever feats, without the instigation of ajwhip or stick, the dogs of their own accord, on a stage property house appearing to be on fire, rush off on their hind legs and fetch from the wings of the stage a fire escape, trundling it up to and placing it against the burning house. Bruce, the head fireman, rushes up the ladder, and entering through the window of the top floor room, returns, carrying a child in its mouth, with which it descends, depositing its burden safely on the ground. Bruce, who is supposed to be injured during the rescue, simulates death; one of the collies rushes off for a policeman, returning with a dog costumed as a policeman, wheeling an ambulance, into which poor Bruce is plaoed, its widow, a collie in petticoats, apparently greatly distressed. This is only a part of the general performances.—[Globe.