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BABY FRANC'S GREGG 



AND DUKE HIS 

 GALLERY 



RIEND, AT THE PHOTOGRAPH 



soon all right, found his master and 

 went on his way rejoicing. 



Just suppose that he had been nut 

 in the open where he could run. The 

 yelling crowd would soon have started 

 him and for the time he would have been 

 unaccountable for his actions. He would 

 have snapped at anything or any one in 

 his desperate endeavor to protect him- 

 self from his enemies. Oct him in a cor- 

 ner and he would bite, run him far 

 enough and hard enough and yell at him 

 enough and he would foam at the mouth. 

 Have a policeman ready and he would be 

 shot and the ready reporter would have 

 all the material necessary for a half col- 

 umn article on the "mad dogf." 



Another case and another crowd. 

 Passing on a wheel and seeing' a crowd, 

 investigation revealed a dog lying on 

 the path in a front yard in a convulsion, 

 brought on no doubt from too active 

 exercise on one of the early warm days in 

 spring. He was foaming at the mouth 

 and the oracle of the crowd volunteered 

 the information that the dog was mad 

 and had run so far that he had drooped 

 down in an exhausted condition, but he 

 said "A man has gone for a policeman 

 and he will be shot." Walking up to the 

 door an<l ringing the bell, 1 said to the 

 lady who came, "Madam, your dog is 

 in a fit, if you will give me a little cold 

 water T will wet the top of his head and 



