(Contributed)
July 25.
Give a dog a bad name and hang him. The poor dog may repent of his evil ways, as the manner of some dogs is, but that will avail him nothing. His bad name will cling to him and you may as well hang him out of hand and be done with him. So the world wags and there is no use in quarrelling with its philosophy. Of all the dogs that we are acquainted with the Chinese soldier has succeeded in getting himself the worst possible name. If anyone has a good word to say for him they whisper it so low that we have not been obit to hear it, whilst those who believe he should be hanged shout their convictions from the house-' tops. We might proceed to the
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