Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-07
DEAREST DOGGIE HAS
TASTE FOR FANCY FOWL
Boston Terrier Accused of FOully Numbering and
DevOuring Some Finest Poultry Ever Pro-
duCed in Fair Land of Sunshine.
SweldOm Goes to Court

grieved. Likewise was Mrs. Fitzgerald
They both signifed their willingness to
pay. Ten dollars they rendered. They
were not aware that these were no or
dinary everyday birds worth at most
81 each, but blooded aristocrats valued
in hard cold coin at 1852 for ten.
Pets Are Expensive
Mr.. Fitzgerald did not see how he
could find 1T in his heart to pay S1G2
for ten chickens, and he then began to
realize that pets come high Mr.. Bur-
bridge did not see how he could afford
TO let his wife's fowls go for naught.
They talked 1t over, then they argued
| IL over and finally they agreed that
they could not possibly agree on the
The Boston terrier was taken home
and put to bed. 1t had cost, well-per-
maps Mr. Fitzgerald would not be car
ing TO say just how much it had cost
but 1t was a fancy price.
Mr, Fitzgerald and his pretty little
wife talked 1t over and they we're
agreed that $162 was entirely too much.
Mr' Burbridge and his equally pretty
iittle wife likewise talked it over, and
then Mr.. Burbridge went to court
That was almost six months ago, and
IL was understood among the friends
OF the interested ones that the case
would come up in a few days.
Ihe west end wondered and chatted
about 1t over the tea tables 1t is even
Whispered that some of the male west
enders made bets over their quiet little
games as to who would come out ahead
dog fancier or chicken fancler. The
betting was about even, and in a quiet,
well bred manner the west end has
been waiting expectantly for the mighty
to sit In Judgment. Around the jon
athan club 1t has been a chief topic for
conversation, and both men had their
sympathizers.
Overcome by an Impulse
The bull terrier said nothing. 1t Was
closely guarded, but at night when the
household was asleep it pondered long
and at times the thought of chicken
would come back and that delicious
odor would once more penetrate the
animars nostrils. The animal would
lick its chops as if meditating on the
cruelness of world in which humans
denies to CANNES nice fat chickens.
One morning last week Mrs. Bur-
bridge awoke to find that a second raid
had been made on her chicken yard
and birds which she values at some
thing more than 5000 had been slaugh-
tered. OF course she charged it up to
the account of the Boston terrier.
This almost on the eve of the suit.
Was ever dog so inconsiderate?
The women in the case are saying
very little, but it is a sure guess they
are doing a lot of thinking, and when
a woman thinks-well, some say there
may be fireworks.
Mr.. Fitzgerald says that he will take
the dog into court and introduce it as
evidence to prove that he-the dog of
course-is so undershot that he could
not eat chicken. Mr.. Fitzgerald i'll
tends to show that the Boston terriers
lower jaw projects so far that his
teeth lovingly caress his upper lips,
making 1t impossible for him to in
dulge In food more solid than milk.
Prominent members of the Jonathan
club will probably be called as char
acter witnesses, and they are hourly
awaiting a subpoena.
The dog is being guarded lest he be
accused of adding a few more hundred
dollars to the original price, and the
feathered aristocrats-their erstwhile
mistress has gone into mourning for
them. May their souls rest in peace.