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Show LITTLE JOHNNY ON DOGS. One time there was a feller [fellow] bot [bought] a dog of [off] a man in the market, and the dog it was a biter. After it had bit the feller [fellow] four or five times he threw a closeline [clothesline] over its neck and led it back to the dog man in the market, and he said to the dog man, the feller [fellow] did, "Ole [Old] man, dident [didn't] you use [used] to have this dog?" The dog man he looked at the dog, and then thot [thought] awhile, and then he said, "Well, yes, I had him about half the time and the other half he had me." Then the feller [fellow] he was fewrious [furious] mad, and he said, "Wot [What] did you sell me such a dog as thisen [this one] for?" And the old man he spoke up and said, "For four dollars and seventy-five cents, ??? money." Then the feller [fellow] he guessed he would go home if the dog was willing. Uncle Ned, which had been in Indy and everywhere, he says the Mexican dogs don't have no hair on ‘em [them]. Dogs howl louder'n [louder than] cats, but cats is more purry [purring] and can wok [walk] on top o' [of] a fence and blow up their tail like a bloom when they want to spit. |