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hogshead and quietly watch the noisy 

 dogs around him, with much show of 

 inattention, making no move, no mat- 

 ter how near they were, until they 

 u bunched," that is, gathered in one 

 place. Then he charged. It was inevi- 

 table that the hind dogs would be the 

 last to jump, and so hindered the front 

 ones; thus Jack would "get" one or 

 more of them, and the game became 

 unpopular. 



When about eighteen months old, 

 and half grown, an incident took place 

 which defied all explanation. Jack had 

 won the name of being dangerous, for 

 he had crippled one man with a blow 

 and nearly killed a tipsy fool who vol- 

 unteered to fight him. A harmless 

 butgood-for-nothingsheep-herderwho 

 loafed about the place got very drunk 

 one night and offended somef ire-eaters. 

 They decided that, as he had no gun, 



