DOGS AND WOODEN LEGS.
One day we were walking along the esplanade at Clifton, when who should Nero spy, limping on in front of him, but an old sailor with a wooden leg. At the tree leg Nero cocked his eye at once —‘ Such a nice sizeable bit of timber,’ thought Nero; ‘lcould’tbe expected to resist that.’ To think is to act with a dog, so he got hold of the poor man’s timber toe on the spot. In vain the sailor kicked and danced on his remaining extremity. Nero only pulled and held the faster, growling, and the crowd did nothing but laugh. It was not without considerable difficulty I at last got the dog to quit his hold. The whole scene was most ludicrous, especially as the sailor, who was Irish, began to harangue the mob from where Nero had seated him on the pavement. ‘Och, thin,’ he cried, ‘did any one iver see such a murdherin’ devil of a dog? Sure it’s the best leg of the whole lot of the two of them. Nearly bitten through it is, too, entoirely. By the rock of ages, it’s meeself that’ll be having the hydraephobee—. ’ Here I gave the man a shilling and left him preaching.
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Globe, Volume IV, Issue 315, 16 June 1875, Page 3
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