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SCEAPPEE. 



Scrapper was not a fighting dog. That is to say, Scrapper 

 was not an aggressive dog, and never provoked a fight. 

 Scrapper has been known to slink away from a yapping 

 Httle cur half his own size; yet when cornered and a 

 fight forced upon him, it was an unfortunate affair for the 

 aggressor. Scrapper, when he did fight, invariably fought 

 to a finish. As he had had a few scores of personal 

 encounters, it may be concluded that some members of the 

 canine race had suffered ; some, in fact, had thought life not 

 worth living afterwards, and had shuffled off to another world 

 in search of a Scrapper that they could lick. 



Scrapper's nervous, shrinking manner was a great induce- 

 ment to the rest of his race to attack him ; whether he 

 adopted it with a view to adding yet another scalp to his 

 girdle I know not, but many and many a dog who had no 

 pretensions whatever to being able to fight a bit had been 

 taken in by it, and what a delusion and a snare it always 

 proved ! Scrapper might be slouching along with his head 

 down, looking neither to the right nor to the left, and 

 apparently thinking of nothing but going the nearest way, 

 and with least possible trouble, to the place he was bound 

 for. He might pass the big retriever at the Grange with- 

 out the slightest recognition on his part, and only a side- 

 long glance from the retriever; yet they had been very 

 intimate once for five or ten minutes, at the end of which 

 time Scrapper had lost part of an ear, and the retriever had 

 only one sound leg on which to return to the drive gates. 



