14 OUR DICK. 



or stingy masters, who will not pay the 

 license tax. 



My wife declares, and I quite agree 

 with her, that if ever poverty is a crime, 

 it is when a man has the assurance to 

 become the master of a dog and has not 

 the money to pay the license. What 

 right has such a fellow to undertake 

 such a responsibility? I should like to 

 know. A dog cannot be expected to trot 

 up to the City Hall and buy his own tag. 

 Even the poor dogs who work for a liv- 

 ing, leading blind men about, turning 

 wheels for knife-grinders, and the like, 

 never have any ready money. If such 

 a dog happened to have a kind master, 

 willing to give him a share* in the profits 

 of the business, the poor fellow has no 

 pocket to put the money in. As for his 

 laying by anything for a rainy day, dogs 



