14 KRIDER'S SPORTING ANECDOTES. 



However, it so happened, that upon a certain 

 New Year's day, as the doctor and the sugar 

 refiner were conversing in the street, they saw 

 the baker coming towards them, with his sleek, 

 black dog behind him. The two tyrants, as 

 usual, were sitting at the corners of the court, 

 on the qui vive the bigger, w r hose name was 

 Flame, ensconced on a fire-plug, and the lesser, 

 who was called Smoke, watching under a lamp- 

 post. The name of the court, we had for- 

 gotten to state, was Concord Place, which was 

 somewhat at variance with the character of its 

 guardians, although Relief alley, a narrow pas- 

 sage directly opposite, was no misnomer, so far 

 as it is connected with the anecdote, inasmuch 

 as it had often saved Tim, at need, from the teeth 

 of his determined assailants. 



"Now," said the doctor, "let us watch the 

 motions of these three dogs." 



"I have often noticed them before," said the 

 other, " and the baker's will certainly leave him 

 at the next street." 



But whether it was that the evil had arrived 

 at that pitch at which endurance ceases to be a 

 virtue, even in a dog, or that the day being the 

 first of the year, Tim was determined to begin it, 

 more magistri, with a new talley, is open to free 



