Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1880 — What a Paris Dog Can Do. [ARTICLE]

What a Paris Dog Can Do.

A Paris correspondent of the New Orleans Picayune tells the following story: “There is a terrier in a case, Rue St. Honore, that no sooner sees an habitual customer enter than he runs up to the new-comer, opens his mouth and looks imploringly at the customer. The latter so well understands the pan tomime that he puts a sou in the open mouth. The terrier bounds to the door and in an instant is at the nearest pastry cook’s. The latter gives the dog a cake, which he brings to his benefactor, who breaks the cake into three pieces. One is forthwith given the terrier; the dog, having eaten it, stands on his hind legs, lets the customer put the second piece of cake on his (the dog’s) nose, lets it stay there untouched until the gentleman raps ten times on the table; at the tenth rap the terrier tosses the cake in the air and catches it before it falls to the floor. The gentleman then takes the third piece of cake in his hand and says: ‘Billy, you have eaten two of the three pieces of cake. There are thousands of dogs in Paris who have never tasted a*piece of cake. Now, Billy, if you be a gentleman—and

I believe you are a gentleman, Billy—you will take this third piece of cake and lay it in the street for dogs that are not as wellßff in this world as you are.’ The terrier t&es the third piece of cake in his mouth, carries it to the street, leaves it there, returns to the customer, looks inquiringly at him, as much as to ask, * Have I done the genteel thing? ’ and lies down to doze until another customer enters.”