AN ITALIAN DOG STORY.
"They say Italians are cruel to their beasts,' 1 writes a Westminster correspondent lately in Tuscany ; "but I beg you to considor the following true history : There is a cobbler in tho Via della Dogana, Florence. His shop is a hole in the wall. Tho dreadful ciappacani (dogcatchors) who were appointed to net stray dog^s and aro rewarded by the municipality in ratio to their captures, caught the cobbler's little cvr — who would have been killed if not bought back. The dog was intrinsically not worth a penny, but the poor man loved him. To save his canine friend ho found that he must pay nine francs, and to make up such an enormous sum he was obliged to pawn his bedclothes. It was cold afterwards at night without thorn. But what matter? His little dog was safa and with Mm. Won't all your readers who go to Florence patronise that humane cobbler?"
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Evening Post, Volume LX, Issue 102, 27 October 1900, Page 1 (Supplement)
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157AN ITALIAN DOG STORY. Evening Post, Volume LX, Issue 102, 27 October 1900, Page 1 (Supplement)
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