"Sure as you live, and Asa Barnes ditto. Asa said he was passing
an empty lot last night when a brindle cur just deliberately
jumped out and nabbed him. Of course he kicked the beast away,
and it ran off howling; but his father, on being told the
circumstances this morning, thought he ought to have a little
caustic applied so as to take no chances. Think of it--a brindle cur,
and that sneak kicked him! Oh! my!"

"And where did Bill say he got his dose from?"

"He's got a little bit of a poodle, you know. Well, he had the
nerve to declare the baby beast bit him! Dad said he found it hard
to believe, for judging from the marks of the teeth it was a jaw
three times as big as Tiny's that did the business. Dad knows
better now."

"Then you told him all about Kaiser's work last night?"

"Sure; I had to. He was for putting off to warn the town police to
look out for all brindle dogs, and shoot 'em on the spot--which
spot I don't know. But you see, somebody had told him about Kaiser
acting that way at the field, and he was ready to order him
massacred before he went mad too. So I had to relate the dreadful
story of how Bill and Asa and Jay got their little tattoo marks."

"What did he say then?" asked Frank, greatly amused.

"Nearly took a fit laughing over it. Instead of being chloroformed
or otherwise exterminated Kaiser is going to get a new collar now,