Bobby stood under sentence of death. He had killed a cat, although the cat had unmistakably struck him first. A few years ago he had saved a child from drowning, but nobody counted that. Bobby was a 13-year-old greyhound, rich in the love of Charles Harold Stuart Parsons, optician and magician of Sheffield.
C. H. S. Parsons is a stubborn man. When, in September 1941, a magistrate ordered him to destroy his dog, he balked. He was fined. He appealed. He was fined again. Costs began to climb. Other dogmen heard of his...
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