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J.w DUNCAN. - u'Cu&oV. E.L.WALL.
nUNCAN, O't,oNOR n. WALL, AT.
~ tOrHeys at Law. O.icc IN Carcron'a huildipg Op
poeite Chfton Hotel. Oltawa. illinois. jnly!Ss2
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SAMUEl- IIICHDI.SON, Attorney and
= Counselor Al Law. Win prSctice In the courts OF
La Sale and adjoining counties OfiCe, west OF Court
House, Ottawa, H. novla
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q. W. W. BLAKE. VI. r. hDLoNEr
DLAkE Sc NOION f.i, Attorneys and
ID COunselors VI Lew. Rooms Is and 2t Opera House
Block. Ottawa, Illinois, iun35-
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nv G.. TRICN AIRY, Attorney NJ lsw. Ofiice
-. with L. W Brewer I,LIp!s -. x q County COur.
House Ottawa, III. JAMS
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Ii. STR AVN, Attorney ri Law. Careful
IL. aitentlon will be gwen the settlement Ofestaes
snd coiectons Ofice with T. p Bull, over City DrLR
store JAMS
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4, CRIGGS,, Attorney and Counselor At Law.
-. Oice In Lypch's block, Main stree. Oitawa. Ill.
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Ik;SSE Is lttltif.it, Lawyer. Iu.terer n
y Me;2ger's Block east uf tonT House. Ortawa
Illinois. iailt52
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w. BREWER, Attorney and Counselor at
IL. Law, and Notary Public. Rooms 2. q ~ County
Court House, Ottawa, III.
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IOHN IL. RICE. Attorney at Law. Rcddck's
Block. city OF Ottawa. viii practice law in La
Sale and adjoining counties. and In the Appellate
and Supreme Courts scl.D-iyr'
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HIRAM T. aILBBRT JAMES u. ECKRLs.
EILBERr e ECIxEl.S. Attorneys and
u COunselOrs at Law, Futtercl d Met2gcr's Block,
east Of Court House. sep29,s3
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nANIE a. coon. Attorney At Law. once,
~ Rooms aud Arnory tWoo1's) BlocS. ottawa
Illinois. dec1S
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BUSHNELL & FULLERTON AT
ID t0rneys at Law. Ottawa. Illinois. Office In Bush
uels block, west OF Court House. jcly2l-ly'
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T. r.. BULL, Attorney at law. Oflcc over
Es CITY Drug Store northwest corner Of Ia sale and
Madison sraets, Ottawa. III. inayT.6
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NJ n. N.ARMSERONG, Attorney anG Conn.
lV. selor at Law, Ottswu, III. No'sTS Public. once
In Gedney's Block, OttaHA Iun5,s0
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7 g. BOYLE. Attorney NJ Law. Office With
y. M. 4. Moloncy. Opera Hause Block. OTTAWA. III.
feb2l..0
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THE WEEKLY
LaSalle Co. HerolQ

Has secured wider known distinction The ab,c-i.
the most powerful aud the most widely circulated
German weekly In tins state. outside ut the city Oi
Chicago IL IL recognized hy every class and element
IA the worthy exponent and representative of the
Illinois.
Its popularity and grea, circulation among nteiii
gent and prosperous Germans bestows upon 1t value
as an advertising medium which is not possessed bl
ailyothcr German Journal In this part of the state
Illinois.
c.. ZWANZIG, Editor.
Ottuwh. H.. March IL. 1883.
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ID u. LINCOLN, Attorney NJ Law. Otfce
ID. oyri y" - Ia Sale street. wee. side " the
Court House. OTTAWA. III. lulySi5
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,HAS SE FOWLER, Master in Chancery. Al
" t0rney and Counselor at Law. Oifce In GetDcy's
BOck northeast corner OF court house square Rooms
3and 4. Ottawa, Illinois. JuniOe2
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n NIcDOUGAIIII,A Attorney At Law. Ottawa
IL H. Office In lledney'e Block. deere
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~ B. .CHAPMA A n. Attorney and Counselor
~. ut Law. Office with j. McDouga Ottawa. III.
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HENRY nAIo. JOHN II. W!UMBB.
MAYO * wIDNfE.I Attorney IA: Law
Au Once In NsttHgers Block. corner OF sale
and Main streets front room stairs, Ottawa, III.
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nR. r.. w. wEIS, (Deutcher Doc,oI,} late
~ Physician and Surgeon TO the St. Louis Female
Hospital. Once over Steisls Clothing Store Of
Main and Ia Sale streets. Residence On sorth bluff
at Mira E:en.'s. apps
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nR. j. =. RYBCRN, Ottawa, III. Once
~ IN the Opera House Flock. In Office day and
night. iJnl2I.
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fNEORtTE -. EI4DItcpGE, Attorney ~
" Law Office in poatoi!ce BlCcS Ottaws, III spr!'
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COUNTY ASYLUM.

Notice Is hereby gwen. that on Thurslaya
ana Fridays OF each week visitors will be ni-
initted 10 the Asylum. No visitors aduit,ed On SUI
days. TIC GIBSON County Agppt
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County Superintendent Of Public Schools,
q. b. STOCKDALE

viii bold examinations at Room 40. q. OTTAWA High
SCHOOL, the second ard fourth Saturdays Of each
month. until further notice. janis
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p nv 0lCIA n Q .

nR. ALCINDA AUTEN. Office over
~ HoXie's store, La Sale st., Ottawa, III. junl,in'
nR. q. MILLER. the well known oCullst
II and Aurlst, Ottawa, III. Office, u La Sale street.
up stairs 2prS-3nOs'
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Chicago, Burlington and Quincy X. K
TIME TABLE.

October iBth, So!
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-01-19
A HRADLBss ROOSTER ALIVE YEAR.

The following is from the Washington
Post.
NJ. P. Key, agent for the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, walked
into the office of Assistant District Attor-
ney Moore at the Police Court yesterday
morning carrying basket containing
headless rooster, alive and well. "This
curious bird, !" he explained has been for
several days on exhibition at No. 94l Penn
sylvania avenue, and have the supposed
owners, Randolph Warrick and Henry IT.
wing, under arrest under the cruelty to
animals regulations" In a few seconds
the Office of Mr.. Moore was thronged with
curious people who wanted to see the
chicken. When the basket was opened
the headless bird hoped cut. Its body
and legs were fully developed, and also the
neck, but greater portion of the head was
gone. Indeed it seemed that the whole
head had been chopped off, but on exam
nation it was shown that only the eyes
and beak were gone, the base of the brain
and ears being left. Subsequently War
rick and Irving had hearing in Court.
ton. The defense was that the chicken was
IIOILlll8 ulOtS JlldA oil OINlhdl CuI lOSINIs
Warrick stated that he purchased the
rooster about a month ago from man in
Richmond, Va, and paid S25 for it. The
original owner stated that the fowl mad
been headless for over a year. Its head
was lost one morning when the owner
chopped off the heads of number of other
chickens. Instead of dying, Ike the rest,
this one lived, topped around, and was
subsequently kept alive by pushing food
down his windpipe. The witness then ex-
planned how the rooster was fed and added
that when ne came to this city he received
a permit to exhibit it from Chief of Police
Dye. The question of cruelty was argued
at length, and Judge Smell finally fined
Warrick $50. Irving was discharged, as
nothing was developed to show that he had
any responsible interest in the chicken. In
pronouncing his decision, Judge Smell said
that any creature without apparent brain
evidently suffered, and the usage Of the
chicken in question for exhibition purposes
was cruelty. He also questioned the &C.
ton of Chief of Police Dye in granting a
permit to exhibit. Warrick gave bonds to
appear for a further hearing, and the
chicken was carried of in the basket by
Mr.. Key. The case excited considerable
interest. Young Irving said after the
hearing that he believed Barnum would
give 81 900 for the rooster.
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A PUZZLE FOR ASTRONOMERS.

DR.. James Kennedy contributes the fol-
lowing to the Toronto GLO5e' How is 1t
that the earths orbit has an inclination OF
lust 23I degrees toward its axis Whether
the operat oas of this particular arrange
ment OF cur planetary system rave been
clearly traced to natural causes l do not
know. l submit the following The dis
tribution of land ia as two to one, and the
relative density Of land and water Is as five
to one in favor of the northern hemisphere.
The prepOnderence Of weight, therefore,
being largely in its favor, and this added
to the large excess OF minerals north OF the
equator, gives proportionally greater in
teosity to magnetic force, Also, that the
center OF gravity is not in the center OF
bulk, but in the center of weight, hence
some miles nearer to the north than the
south pole. Then as per low regulating
projects, the northern or heaviest henli-
sphere as to bulk will continually strive for
the center of gravity, proportional to the
tractile force, throwing the southern or
light hemisphere outward and behind.
Next, the orbit of the earth Is elipsoidal, the
sun or tractile power beingin oneof the toci.
The longer diameter of the orbit is 8, Co.,
900 miles greater than the shorter, the sun
being that distance nearer to Us now than
it will be on the LIST of July next, in COnse-
quence Of which the suns apparent motion
is slower when in the northern signs
than when he traverses the southern
ones. Also that the axis Of the earth is
always parallel ID it's plane. Such are the
facts and their conditions. Does their COM
bined operation produce the inclination of
the earth's orbit to its axis rs q dignite re-
sultant: | think so. Take the earth at
its Gutumnal equinox, September 22d. 1t
now enters in elipsis nearest the sun, and
on the 22i of December makes its nearest
approach On tle 22i OF June it reaches
It's greatest dissance from that orb. As the
ea1tl nears the sun the traction Will in
crease according TO the law-inversely as
the square OF distance-and it Will be
greatest on the northern hemisphere, pro-
portional to its greater density and the
nearer distance Of the center OF gravity to
the north pole. Hence there i5 a c)ntinu-
GUS effort to tilt the north pole toward
the gravitatiug force. This effort IS
counteracted by the magnetic force al.
ways striving in the plane Of its own axis,
and at right anglea to the gravitatipg force.
Inc earth must per force of gravity
come nearer the sun, and per magnetic
force it must not change the direction
of its axis. neither force can yield to
the other the earth is obedient to both,
hence it proceeds between them, the con-
tending or adjusted forces operating as In
dicated, raise the earth $50 to say between
the 22i Of September and the 22d of De-
Gember just 2344', and is causstive of the
inclination Of the earth's orbit to its axis.
10 newspaper article 1t is enough to
enuuciate the principle, which have done,
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-01-19

INSANITY AMoSG SHEEP-HKRDERs. -
Sheep ranches are usually desolate places !;
a great stretch of seemingly bare lands,
with few fenced corrals, blackened and
foul smelling; the home and out-buildings
clustered together in hollow or on hill.
side where there is water; the less human
the neiqhborhood the better. The loneli-
ness of the life is of itself salient objec-
tion to the industry. Of this the great
owners need know nothing they can live
where they like. But fer the small sheep
men, the shepherds. and above all, the
herders. it is terrible life-how terrible
is shown by the frequency of insanity
among herders Sometimes, after only a
few months of the life, herder goes sud.
denly mad. After learning this fact, it is
no longer possible to see the picturesque
side of the effective groups one so often
comes on suddenly in the wilderness
sheep peacefully grazing, and the shepherd
lying on the ground watching them, or the
whole flock racing in a solid, fieecy, bill
lowy scamper up or down steep hillside,
with the dogs lesping and barking on all
sides at once. One scans the shepherds
face alone, with plying fear lest he may
be losing his wits.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-01-19
A YOUTHFUL FlNA SClER.

VIII Taylor, the son of the present
American Consul at Marseiles, was good
deal like other boys at school in his old
home a. Hudson, Wisconsin. One day
he called his father into the library and
said
"Pa, I don't like to tell you, but the
teacher and have had trouble.
"What's the matter now 4?
"Well, l cut one of the desks a little
with my knife, and the teacher says I've
got to pay 81 or take lickin'."
Wen, why don't you take the licking
and say nothing more about it? l can
stand considerable physical pain, so long
as it visits our family in that form. OF
course it is not pleasant to be logged, but
you have broken a rule OF the school, and
guess you'll have to stand it. pre-
sumo that the teacher will in wrath re-
member mercy, and avoid disabling you
so that you can't get your coat on any
more"
"But, pa, 1 feel mighty bad about it
already, and if you would pay my fine I'd
never do it again. l know a good deal
more about 1t now, and | will never do it
again. A dollar amt much TO you, pa,
but it's heap to a boy that hasn't got a
cent. Ii l could make a dollar as easy
as you can, ps, I'd never let my little
boy get logged that way just TO save a
dollar. Ii | had little fellow that 90.
licked bekuz l didn't put up for him, I'd
hate the sight OF money always. I'd feel
as ef every dollar had in my pocket had
been taken out OF my little kids back.
"Well, now, I'll tell you what II! do.
III give you a dollar to save you from pun.
ishment this time, but II any thing Of this
kind ever occurs again, I'll hold you while
the teacher ticks you, and then I'll get the
teacher to hold you while lick you. That's
the way feel about that. Ii you want to
go around whiting up our educational in
stisutlous you can DO so, but you will have
to purchase them aitsrward yourself, l
don't propose to buy any more damaged
school furniture. You PROBABLY grasp my
meaning, do you not? | send you to school
to acquire an education, not to acquire La
biities so that yoa can come around and
make an assessment on me, | feel great
interest in you, Willie, bu5 l do not feel as
though it should be an assessable interest.
| want to 20 on, OF course, and improve
the property, but when l pay my dues on
1t want to know that it goes toward de-
velopment work. | don't want my assess
ments to go toward the purchase of
school desk with American hiero glyphics
carved on it. hope you viii bear this in
mind, my son, and beware. 1t will be
greatly to your interest to beware. If 1
were in your place would put in a large
portion OF my time IN the beware bust
ness"
The boy took the dollar and went
thoughtfully to school, and no more was
ever said about the matter until Mr. Tay-
lor learned casually several months later
that the Spartan youth had received the
walloping and filed away the dollar tor
heard to cay that he favored much
heavier fine in cazes of that kind. One
whipping was sufficient, he said, but he
favored a fine OF S.. 1t ought to be se-
we're enough to make it an obiect.-IBill
Nve
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-01-19
wArEE IS PRECIOUS as GOLD.

Flagstaff year ago was an unredeemed
inferno; now 1t is for the most part quiet
and of good repute 1t owes its pema-
nancy to the timber business. From
northwestern Arizona down to the south
east into western New Mexico stretches
vast belt of magnificent pine forest. Here
the belt is cut by the railroad just under
the shadow of the San Francisco noun
tains. The trees are of extraordinary
hight, straight and huge in their proper
ti9ns. Between them there is no under
growth-all is clear and open. Here and
there the openings widen out into beauti-
full natural parks, clothed with rich
growth of grass No finer cattle country
could be imagined, save for the lack of
water. Water is almost literally as pre-
cious "a gold, Men 60 out prospecting for
springs Just as the miner searches for crop
pings OF ore. He who secures spring can
control thousands OF acres of land, But
tae spriags are few, often small, and not
always trustworthy. The l. tile Antelope
Spring, which supplies the cluster OF cabins
hard by, sometimes runs dry. Then water
is hauled in barrels for miles and sold
like any other commodity. The saw
mill which runs out a hundred thousand
feet OF lumber 3 day to supply a con-
tract of 81, 600, 600 feet for the Mexican
Central Railway, Is run by steam power.
Yet for this 1t is necessary TO pump the
water in pipes from springs nine miles
away. Al Winslow the railroad company
sunk an artesian well l 700 feet and struck
salt water. At Ash Fork they sunk an.
other well, which proved q failure. From
the line Of New Mexico the railroad runs
for many miles through the barren valley of
the Rio Puerco. The river bed ia broad,
but the stream itself is scanty riyuiet
Yet when there comes one of the sudden,
fierce thunder-storms peculiar to this re-
gioa the plains are flooded, and in an hour
the river becomes 4 raging torrent. l
have seen this happen again and again,
for it is the rainy season now; but in a
few hours the water disappears, the ter
rents plunges into underground water.
courses, and the sands are parched as
before. 1t has been suggested that huge
stone tanks be constructed TO hold the
water, instead of permitting 1t to flow off
at once. The suggestion seems good one.
Artesian wells have never obtained much
success in the Western country, and the
water problem remains one of vital i'm
portance. IGOR. New York Tribune.
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TIE GEAR THAT IS GIFTED.

The Scotch have queer old ballad,
Which heard only once and forget,
Except these two lines OF the chorus,
Which are lingering with me yet
So simple and wise in their wisdom,
| think they are worthy to CON-
1.-THE gear that is gifted, it never
viii wear like the gear that is Won.
Now let US all read it and learn it,
II we work with our hands, We are wise
The things that we make Will be precious,
The things that We earn We shall prize.
The saying is full Of true wisdom,
The lines are well worthy to con-
IL The gear that is gifted, it never
VIII wear like the gear that is wen"
The world is all full OF kind helpers,
And the lazy can easily shirk;
Most things can be purchased with money,
And 10 buy takes less time than to work
But remember this proverb of wisdom,
OF wisdom well worthy to CON-
" The gear that is gifted it never
Will wear like the gear that is won.
No matter il we have our Millions
They cannot be counted upon;
The days may be near that are rainy,
The days when our millions are gone;
Then remember this proverb Of wisdom
To live by, as well as to CON-
d" The gear that is gifted, it never
VIII wear like the gear that Is won.
-lSelected.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-01-19
MILITARY REPRIsALs.


The abolition of slavery, which in West
ern Europe has been the greatest achieve
ment Of modern civilization, did not, IN
fortunately, tend to greater mildness in the
customs of war. For in ancient times the
sale Of prisoners as slaves operated to re.
strain that indisoriminste and obiectless
slaughter which has been, even to cases
within this century, the marked feature of
the battlefield, and more especially where
cities or places have been taken by storm.
Avarice ceased to operate, as it once did,
in favor of humanity. In one day the
population of Magdeburg, taken by storm,
was reduced from %, 200 TO ., 700; and an
English eyewitness of that event thus de.
scribes it: "Of %. 900, sons said 80, 900,
people, there was not 3 soul to be seen
alive, till the flames drove those that
were hid in vaults and secret places
to seek death in the streets rather
then perish in the FIRE; of the miserable
creatures some were killed, too, by the fu-
lious soldiers, but at last they saved the
lives of such as came out of their cellars
and holes, and so about 1000 poor, desper-
ate creatures were left" There was lit.
tie shooting the execution was all cutting
of throats and mere house murders.
We could see the poor people il crowds
driven down the streets, flying from the
fury of the soldiers, who followed butcher.
ing them as fast as they could, and refused
mercy to any body, till, driving them down
to the rivers edge, the desperate wretches
would throw themselves into the river,
where thousands of them persisted, espe-
cially women and children" 1t is difficult
to read this graphic description of a stormed
city without the suspicion arising in the
mind that a sheer thirst for blood and love
OF murder is a much more potent sustainer
of war than it is usual or agreeable to be-
lieve. The narratives of most victories
and of taking cities support this theory.
At Bresca, for instance, taken by the
French from the Veuetians in 1872 it is
said that 20, 600 of the latter fell to only 50
of the former When Rome was sacked in
1927 by the Imperialist forces, we are told
that "the soldiery threw themselves upon
the unhappy multitude, and, without dis
tinction of age or sex, massacred all who
came in their way. Strangers were spared
as little as Romans, for the murderers fired
Unfortunately at every one, from mere
thirst of blood. III. A. Farmer, in the
Gentleman's Magazine.
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ANNEXATION OF Texas When ex. Pres
idene Andrew jackson, in March, 1916,
received news of the annexation Of Texas,
he sat down and wrote letter to General
Sam Houston, in which he said: Il con-
graduate you. / congratulate Texas and
the United States on this glorious result,
on which depended the safety and prosper
ity Of both Texas and the United States.
The Congress of the United States with
the President) has reannexed Texas to our
glorious Union as far as she could without
the consent of Texas, which all the De-
mocracy of this Union believe will be
speedily yielded by the people of Texas
through her constituted authorities, 1
now behold the great American Eagle, with
her Stars and Stripes, lowering over the
lone star of Texas, with cheering voice,
welcoming it into our glorious Union, and
proclaiming to Mexico aad all foreign Gov
ernments, You must not attempt to tread
on Texas that the united Stars snd
Stripes now defend her. Glorious result
in which you, General, have acted noble
part, and your name is now recorded among
the heroes, the patriots and philanthropy
ists
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A HArrY FAmLY.-M. Mauouvrier COM
muuieatss the following notes regarding a
80 happy family to the Bulletin of the
Geological Society of France The COM
psnions we're a large watchdog, male and
a female eat, two female hounds, two hares
and a pair 81 pigeons. The pigeons, &C.
customed - live without molestasiOn and
gifted with tos little intelligence to under
stand the situation, were the tyrants Of
the place, driving both cats and dogs away
from the lighted portion of the floor. The
poor cat. awakened from her pleasant sleep
in the sun by the oeoing, and finally by the
sundry pecks of the feeble bird on nose
and feet, would often gently give up her
place, but would sometimes move too slow
", and, teasel hey Ond endurance, would
occasionally bound upon it without hurting
it. II the pigeon still continued its at
tscks. poor puss would discharge her nerv-
ous tension by giving four or five bounds in
the air and then walk away. Oae OF the
hunting dogs, who was very young, would
often watch the hares at their play, while
the struggle going on IN his brain between
opposed inclinatious was evidenced by a vi
client trembling OF the body. The hares
were always somewhat timid with the dogs
and cats, yet would administer blows WI n
their feet when the former played too
roughly with them. These animals lived
in a restaurant,