Identifier: dogsofboytown00dyer (find matches)
Title: The dogs of Boytown
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Dyer, Walter A. (Walter Alden), 1878-1943
Subjects: Dogs
Publisher: New York, H. Holt and company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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bdued and he did not brag. He stepped softlyas one would in entering a sick room, and he pattedRemuss little head very gently and called him poorlittle muttsie. Then came Theron Hammond,though he left his Boston terrier at home becauseAlert had never had distemper and might catch it.He and the Whipple boys sat for a long time in thestable doorway and speculated about the knowingnessof dogs. Monty Hubbard came, too. He left hisIrish terrier, Mr. OBrien, at home because of saidMr. OBriens well-known proclivity to fight with any-thing in the shape of a dog, though Monty was surehe wouldnt hurt two sick puppies. But Herbie Pier-son honored Rome by bringing his huge, brindledGreat Dane, Hamlet, who regarded the setters withfatherly indulgence and then walked off in his stately 98 THE DOGS OF BOYTOWN manner and crouched like a noble statue beside thefront gate. And last of all came Rags and Jimmie Rogers, ofwhom I will presently tell you more. Boytown had always been a great place for dogs.
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Great Dane Not only the aristocrats of dogdom, living comfort-ably in homes with loving masters and mistresses, butall sorts of nondescript dogs, many of whom seemedto be masterless and homeless, though not invariablyunhappy. In fact, there were many good citizens ofBoytown who did not like dogs and who felt that SOME OTHER DOGS, INCLUDING RAGS 99 the canine population of the place was altogether toolarge. There were restrictive laws that ought to have re-duced this canine population to such dogs as wereproperly owned and licensed, but the government ofBoytown was criticized as being a happy-go-luckyaffair a good deal of the time, and it was only whencomplaints became sufficiently numerous and seriousthat the town fathers took steps to enforce the lawsand abolish what was conceded to be a public nuisance.Then a dog catcher was hired, warnings were posted,and the stray dogs were gathered up and mysteriouslydisposed of. It was rather a cruel and heart-rendingbusiness, if you stopped to

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