io Sporting Notes in the Far East. 



The " Beef block " is one of the greatest banes to an owner of 

 a dog on board ship. Tie him up as you will, when the beef is 

 being cut up for distribution, he will find his way there somehow. 

 And if you should by chance visit the scene, it is ten to one that 

 you will arrive, just in time to see a bluejacket stuffing half a pound 

 of raw beef down the beast's throat. And the culprit on being 

 remonstrated with, will innocently tell you that " 'e 'ad tried 'ard 

 to drive the dawg away, but 'e would come, so 'e 'ad just given 

 'im a chip of bone to satisfy 'im like. " 



It is a peculiar trait about the British tar ; that whenever he is 

 shipmate with a dumb animal, be it what it may, from a bullock 

 to a foretop pigeon ; he must be feeding it. 



But dogs also, as we all know, have sometimes a nasty habit of 

 helping themselves. 



I shall never forget one occasion, when on returning from the 

 shore, I was met at the gangway by the quarter-master, who in- 

 formed me in an awestruck whisper, that " Lazarus " (my dog) 

 had just walked off with the Captain's dinner, in the shape of a 

 roast chicken, and also that at the present moment he was engaged 

 in devouring the spoil. There was no need to tell me this, as I 

 could distinctly hear him, from his retreat behind the armchest 

 hard at work crunching the bones with his sharp little teeth. 



However at a later date master Lazarus was overtaken by a 

 just retribution, for his stealing propensities. It occurred in this 



