12 KRIDER'S SPORTING ANECDOTES. 



defensive alliances with each other, which, like 

 those of the princes of the earth, are liable to 

 abrupt and disagreeable conclusions. 



A physician of this city had in his stable a 

 terrier, which formed a league of this kind with 

 an individual of the same stock, belonging to a 

 sugar refiner in the vicinity. The chief end of 

 this alliance, it was observed, was to mount guard 

 at a corner of the court on which the stable was 

 located, and make battle with any thing in the 

 shape of perambulating dog flesh which might 

 happen to pass that way. Now, there lived, about 

 a square above the court, a Dutch baker, who 

 possessed a large dog, which regularly attended 

 his master as he went his morning rounds, with 

 "the staff of life" on his shoulder. This was a 

 quiet, sleek, well-intentioned animal, but a few 

 months out of the days of his puppyhood. His 

 name was Tim, and we can safely aver that he 

 was a dog of repute, harboring no evil designs of 

 any kind in his head; which, to tell the truth, 

 was very far from being the case with the two 

 terriers. 



Time after time had the latter assailed and 

 beaten the baker's dog, and no redress could the 

 sufferer obtain, except, perhaps, when some 

 vagrant boy, in his zeal for fair play, would shy 



