A STRING OF DOG TALES 305 



A FOX TERRIER, 



but Spin was a traveled dog, who had visited 

 almost every city on the globe big enough to boast 

 of a play-house, and Spin always traveled first-class 

 in company with his master and mistress, and 

 although the dog never had a pass, his master 

 never paid for Spin's passage. 



As most of my readers know, dogs are not al- 

 lowed to travel on railroad trains except in the 

 baggage cars or express cars, but Spin knew sev- 

 eral tricks by which the rules of the heartless cor- 

 porations could be set at naught. Upon approach- 

 ing a train the sly dog would slip under his mis- 

 tress's skirts and trot along in concealment, hidden 

 from the sharp eyes of the guards and conductors. 



This wise and widely traveled dog would also 

 seek the same hiding place whenever a uniformed 

 trainman hove in sight, and in this manner, in 

 spite of rules and regulations, Spin managed 

 to travel over Europe, Asia, Australia, and New 

 Zealand in first-class coaches without a ticket or 

 a pass. While Spin was in the prime of life the 

 phonograph began to become popular and one day 

 the dog's master talked into one of the receivers 

 and sent the wax cylinder with the record thus 

 made to his wife, who at that time happened to be 

 visiting in another city. When the record was put 

 into a phonograph, and the familiar voice sounded 

 from the instrument, Spin knew it at once and ran 

 frisking to listen to 



