xxvni TWO LEOPARD STORIES 253 



upset was I at losing my chum, that, somehow or 

 other, that store all at once became intensely 

 obnoxious to me ; it symbolized the unhealthy district 

 and the dreaded fly that had accounted for poor 

 Brandy, so putting a match to the place, I sent it 

 with its stock of goods and chattels heavenwards in 

 smoke and flame a funeral pyre to as fine a dog as 

 anyone could have wished to meet. I left the 

 district the same day and have never returned. 



