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get him up to the residence of Mr. Sanford. 

 The plan they adopted showed that they 

 were much afraid of the angry dog. They 

 procured two long pieces of scantling, and 

 placing them parallel on the ground, they 

 succeeded in getting the box on the middle. 

 Then each man taking an end, they placed 

 the case, with its contents, on a large flat 

 express waggon and took it to its destina- 

 tion. Here they drove it into the yard, and 

 in the same cautious way they were lifting 

 the box, dog and all, to the ground, when 

 fortunately I happened to come along, and 

 noticing that there was some excitement, I 

 naturally asked what was the matter. 



The reply was given in rather vigourous 

 language, as they described the difficulties 

 they had had in bringing up that savage 

 dog to the house from the railroad station. 



" Is he not securely boxed up? " was my 

 next question. 



" It is about the ' securely ' of it, that we 

 have been bothered " said one. " The fact 

 is he has been making such desperate efforts 

 to get out of that box, that we were fearful 

 that he might succeed, and if he did — well, 

 I did not want to be around there just then." 



I watched them with a certain amount of 



