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one. In my experience as a dog man I could 

 give many personal incidents concerning the 

 sale of vicious dogs, but for space sake one must 

 suffice. 



Last year a Chicago banker sent me an order 

 for a dog similar in style and disposition to the 

 one I had sold him a few years previously, to 

 go to his neice, a young lady staying for treat- 

 ment at a large sanatorium in southern Massa^ 

 chusetts. I replied that I had not in my kennels 

 a large enough dog to suit, but that I knew a 

 dealer who possessed a fairly good reputation 

 who had, and would get him for him if he 

 would run the chances. This was satisfactory, 

 and I bought the dog. He was guaranteed to 

 me as all right in every way, but I felt some- 

 what suspicious, as the price was very low for a 

 dog of his style. I kept him with me for a 

 week and saw no outs whatever about him, and 

 practically concluded my suspicions were un- 

 founded. 



Upon taking the dog personally to the young 

 lady in question, I told her his history as far 

 as I knew it, and also that while I could give her 

 the dealer's guarantee of the dog I could not 

 of course, endorse it, but that if she cared to run 

 the risk she could have the dog on approval as 

 long as she wished. I said in warning that there 

 was something about his eye that did not alto- 



