CHAPTER XVII.
KINGS OF THE KENNEL.
I said, when I lost Carlo, that I would never own another dog.

We all sat around, like big children, crying about it; and what made the grief worse, we had no sympathizers.

Our neighbors were glad of it, for he had not always done the fair thing with them.

One of them had lost a chicken when it was stuffed and all ready for the pan, and suspicions were upon Carlo.
I was the only counsel for the defendant; and while I had to acknowledge that the circumstantial evidence was against him, I proved his general character for integrity, and showed that the common and criminal law were on our side, Coke and Blackstone in our favor, and a long list of authorities and decisions: II.

Revised Statutes, New York, 132, Sec.