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about nine months old, which he immediately began 

 to train for the business. To induce a terrier to 

 travel 100 yards underground is not such a very 

 difficult task, but it must be remembered that at 

 every 10 yards came the transverse supports, and it 

 was necessary for her to jump over these every time 

 until she could be depended upon to jump over 

 every support without fail, else she was useless for 

 the work in hand, and herein lay the great difficulty 

 in her education. However, by patience and perse- 

 verance on the part of her master, aided by the 

 naturally honourable disposition of Strip, perfection 

 was reached, and she never makes a single mistake 

 now. 



" Working in the dark culverts she can be 

 implicitly trusted to assist the company in her 

 department, and has laid many miles of wires both 

 in London and Brighton. And the company, recog- 

 nising the value of a good servant, pay her fair 

 wages, which she receives every Saturday morning 

 along with other employes of the company." 



