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17 Green Bag 227 (1905)
Concerning Great Danes

handle is hein.journals/tgb17 and id is 239 raw text is: CONCERNING GREAT DANES CONCERNING GREAT DANES By H. W. T was in a small town in Massachusetts. The mail had just come in and the usual crowd of village worthies was collected in the store. Suddenly from the recesses of the inner store emerged a figure waving a blue volume. There, Hiram, it said; I told yer so. That Baxter feller can't keep that Great Dane of his. It's against the law. What ye got there? asked Hiram. This here volume, answered the figure impressively, is the Acts and Resolves passed by the Legislature of this here Com- monwealth of Massachusetts durin' the ses- sion of .1904, and chapter 1O5 says as how Baxter ain't got any right to keep a Great Dane. Let's see, said Hiram. What Hiram saw was this: AN ACT RELATIVE TO GREAT DANES AND CERTAIN OTHER DOGS. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION i. No person shall keep or have in his care or possession any bloodhound, excepting an English bloodhound of pure blood whose pedigree is recorded or would be entitled to record in the English blood- hound herd book, or any dog classed by dog fanciers or breeders as Cuban blood- hound or Siberian bloodhound, whether such dog is in whole or in part of such species, unless stnch dog is kept solely for exhibi- tion. In such case he I shall at all times be kept securely enclosed or chained, and shall not be allowed at large even though in charge of a keeper, unless properly and securely muzzled. SECTION 2. Sections one hundred and thirty-eight and one hundred and forty-one of chapter one hundred and two of the Revised Laws are hereby repealed. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. 1 Who?- ED. Hiram thought a minute. Jonas, he said; whar does that say anythin' abaout a Great Dane? Why, the whole thing is about Great Danes and them other dogs. It says so. See, 'An Act relative to Great Danes.' Ef it ain't about Great Danes, why does it say so? and with this poser Jonas sat back on the counter. Howsumever, retorted Hiram, I'd jest like you to p'int out whar it says that a feller can't keep a Great Dane. Jonas looked at the act again. Waal, he concluded, I calc'late a Great Dane must be one of them dogs classed by dog fanciers as a Cuban bloodhound or Siberian blood- hound. It may be a Siberian bloodhound, for all I know, said Hiram; but who's goin' to tell whether it is or it ain't ? Dog fanciers, came the ready response from Jonas. Then you mean, said Hiram, that ef we folks up here in Worcester Caounty want ter know whether we've got any right to keep Great Danes, we can't go to the law ter see what's what, but we've got ter hunt up one of your dog fanciers from Boston and ask him please does he class a Great Dane as a Cuban or Siberian bloodhound? Waal, it looks that way, admitted Jonas, dubiously. Suddenly he brightened up. No; see here, he said; this act says it's about Great Danes, so it must include 'em in them Cuban or Siberian bloodhounds. Otherwise it wouldn't say it was about Great Danes. Are you sure, interrupted Uncle Eben- ezer, who had been reading the statute, that a great Dane ain't some kind of a bloodhound diff'ent from a Cuban or Siberian bloodhound ? We ain't none of us dog fanciers enough to answer ye that, Uncle, replied Hiram.

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