THE MASTIFF. 



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came to the cook and reported Gipsey' s conduct, which the 

 cook disposed of by going out to the garden, picking some 

 tomatoes, and putting them in the old woman's basket, 

 when Gipsey seemed to consider herself discharged from 

 further obligation in the case. When, however, the 

 woman went to another part of the garden and undertook 

 to pick beans, Gipsey vetoed that, and fresh authority had 



ENGLISH MASTIFF EDWY (^7450). 

 Owned by Alvin L. Weston, Denver, Colo. Bred by William Wade, Hulton, Penn. 



to come from the cook. Permission to pick tomatoes did 

 not by any means involve the same as to beans. 



Hector, going along the road, saw a woman beating a 

 little child with great brutality; although all were stran- 

 gers to him, he jumped the fence, and with bristled back 

 and drawn lips inquired, in doggy speech, ' ' What are you 

 doing that for?" The woman screeched like an owl, and 

 flew into the house, when Hector jumped the fence and 

 went off about his business. Eriant got into the room 

 where a dance was going on, and incontinently broke up 



