A DOG'S COMPLAINT.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE EVENING POST. Six— Will you lei me come in, I am only a little doggie with a grievance, and I will not bark top loud, but will roar you as gently as any rooking dove. Mr. Editor, the Govern ment have put a collar on my neck with a number, and I feel as mean as one of those bobbies with a letter and a number on him. I feel as if I had lost my decent name by which people and dogs knew me, and I am now just like " Policeman X." But I do think when the Government put a collar on me and took ten shillings for it from my master they might at least have given me a decent collar, and not the paltry twopenny strap and the farthing brass label. Bow, wow, wow ! Mr. Editor, it makes me angry to think of it. And then the nasty copper nails which were given to fasten the label don't hold it at all, but Stick into my neck and priok me sore. It's mean, Mr. Editor, it's mean. Do just let me give one good loud bark in your paper. Bow, wow, wow ! Oh, its mean ! its mean ! Bow, wow, wow ! I am, Ac, A FOOR LITTLE DOQOIE. 11th January, 1881.
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Evening Post, Volume XXI, Issue 9, 12 January 1881, Page 3
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222A DOG'S COMPLAINT. Evening Post, Volume XXI, Issue 9, 12 January 1881, Page 3
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