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(From Pepys* Diary) 



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r rO Dr. Williams, who did carry me into his 

 -*- garden, where he hath abundance of grapes : 

 and he did show me how a dog that he hath 

 do kill all the cats that come thither to kill his 

 pigeons, and do afterwards bury them ; and do 

 it with so much care that they shall be quite 

 covered ; that if the tip of the tail hangs out, he 

 will take up the cat again, and dig the hole 

 deeper, which is very strange ; and he tells me, 

 that he do believe he hath killed above ioo 

 cats. 



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August 14, 1666 



A FTER dinner with my wife and Mercer to 

 **- the Beare Garden ; where I have not been, 

 I think, of many years, and saw some good sport 

 of the bull's tossing of the dogs : one into the 

 very boxes. But it is a very rude and nasty 

 pleasure. We had a great many hectors in the 

 same box with us, and one very fine went into 



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