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 ences, for there was not a mean thing about him. He was so full of dog spirits he did not know what to do with them.

The only way they could get along with him at all, was to punish him every day or two severely enough to keep his spirits down. He was one of those dogs that need affliction to keep them within bounds.

The children were such a source of delight to him that he would chase every child that went by the house. So the author finally had to tie him up, although it nearly broke his heart. The children avenged themselves when he was tied, by yelping at him, and this promptly made him furious.

The master forbade their barking at him, but they would do it on the sly, and he could not watch them all the time.