112 AN ANGLER'S BASKET. 



rope in his room and he had never seen an electric bell before, 

 he immediately pressed the button but saw and heard nothing. 

 Immediately a servant appeared, " Did you ring, sir ? " 

 " Ring, no, I guess I didn't ring." The girl departed and 

 the visitor again proceeded in his efforts to comprehend the 

 button. Another press and another appearance from the 

 servant. " Wai ? " said the Yankee. " You rang," said the 

 girl, " and please don't keep doing it, as it leads to annoyance 

 and inattention if you do not want anything." But when 

 the girl departed a second time the spirit of mischief entered 

 the man's head and giving her time to get well away he 

 pressed the button a third time. Just at that instant the 

 gong downstairs boomed bang whang for dinner for the space 

 of a full minute, and the mischief maker believing himself 

 the cause of some unknown catastrophe carefully locked and 

 bolted himself in, and sat where he was expecting the police. 



My dog, Tulip who was known for sixteen years to 

 some hundreds of friends though he loved the water, 

 was never guilty of ruining a good angling spot by entering 

 it when I was fishing it. (He could open all the doors in the 

 house by turning the handle with his teeth, providing it was 

 wood, or pushing it in and pulling it out if the handle was 

 one of that kind, and close the door behind him and that 

 deserves to be put on any dog's monument. It would 

 almost be easier to tell you what he could not do, than what 

 he could.) Anyhow, I had been singing his praises one night 

 to a Ribblesdale farmer " a merrier man within the limits 

 of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal." 

 When I had exhausted the tale of his accomplishments, my 

 auditor thus sat on me. He had a dog, too, a collie of 

 supernatural instinct. Going along the highway one day, 

 with the dog at his heels, the farmer espied some sheep that 

 had broken down a place in the stone wall, and got through 



