Wise Old Dog

Maureen Perlmutter, the happy Hancock Park homemaker, tells about Darby, a dachshund who. loved country sausages. When he begged hard enough, his mistress wrote out an order for a few, and the dog grasped it between his jaws and trotted off to Barney's Butcher Shop with it.
In time Barney took Darby's appearance as a matter of course and counted off a half dozen sausages without even consulting the order the dachshund dropped at his feet. One day the dog showed up at the store four times and Barney decided to check. The paper was absolutely blank. Whenever he wanted sausages, the wise old dog simply snatched up any piece of paper and trotted off to the butcher's with it.

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