XXVIII 
TWO LEOPARD STORIES 
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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. 
