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and then he comes helter-skelter after us, and 

 neither threats nor coaxing will induce him to 

 go back. He will dance round and laugh at 

 me, always just out of my reach. Caesar treats 

 him in a very fatherly way, -and Pinto (that is 

 not his real name) delights in tormenting him. 

 He leaves home a very clean little dog fresh 

 from his bath, and if there is any mud or 

 puddle or running water to be found, nothing 

 pleases him better than to dash into it, and so 

 he frequently presents himself at home all 

 besplashed and disreputable ; and his nurse 

 for he has a special nurse calls him a very 

 naughty little doggy-poggy, and looks daggers 

 at me. One day he came upon a hen and 

 chickens in the road. Of course he dashed at 

 the chickens, but the mother hen made a furious 

 dash at him, scratched his nose and sent him 

 away howling. A few days afterwards he found 

 the same chickens in the road without the 

 mother. By way of revenge, he went at them, 

 and had nearly killed them before I could get 

 hold of him. He must be chained up in future 

 when I go for a walk. I don't want to be sued 

 for damages ! 



