Do you remember Lluest Wen Lady? Two-year-old Lluest Wen Lady the wire haired terrier. 21st January 1950. Women were known to do almost everything in days gone by and no one was surprised to see a female dressed in male attire or mimicking his habits and actions, but it was amazing to learn of a two-year-old lady who went around all day with a man’s clay pipe clenched between her teeth. Two-year-old Lluest Wen Lady, who was better known, has Tiny the pretty wire haired terrier belonged to Mr and Mrs Davies formerly of 12 Thomas Street, Maerdy. At any time of the day Tiny could be seen either with a pipe in her mouth or with it resting between her front paws. She was a show dog and had gained first and third prizes at dog shows. Tiny was as pretty as her show name which was taken from the name of the old drovers bridge between Maerdy Reservoirs and her eyes were expressive as only a dog’s can be. Her main colour was silvery dove gray and she appeared to have had a dark blanket across her back. Her intriguing little face was beautifully modelled and her sharp ears stood up at the faintest sound. It was most amusing when you saw Tiny squatting in front of the warm coal fire with her faithful pipe between her teeth, cocking her head one way and the other when Mr and Mrs Davies was talking, one almost expected to see her take her pipe from her mouth and murmur: “Well when I was young...” Another of her favourite resting places was on Mrs Davies’s knee. Tiny settled herself comfortably on her hind legs with her two front paws propped in front of her with her pipe and lolled lazily like a baby. The children who lived nearby idolised the dog. They stopped their playtime to chatter to Tiny when she sat on the window seat, gazing sadly but wisely at them over her pipe but, like the wise owl saying little. It was only when Mr Davies put in an appearance that she showed some excitement and leapt from the window ledge to welcome him when he arrived home from work. Tiny also enjoyed wearing a pair of spectacles, but regretted that her ears were not of a shape and size to enable her to hold them in place without some assistance. One of her many games was to chase madly around the room with a duster between her teeth and when she had satisfied herself that the furniture was spick and span, she ran outside to shake the dust off her duster. The little terrier handled her pipe like a man, except when she lost her temper. Then she refused to oblige and had been known to bite her pipe right through. So if anyone was short of a smoking companion and needed some wise but silent company on a cold evening, they sent for Tiny who was only too pleased to bring along her pipe and share the fire’s glow.
Posted on: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 14:27:47 +0000
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