At Kutta Nagar

Some thousands of dogs grew vexed, last week, in the famed Kutta Nagar (Dog City) built near Baroda by the rich and pious Hindu Shet Arjunlal. He, conscious that it is a Hindu sin for man or beast to kill, has impounded dogs innumerable in a 300-acre tract completely floored with cement so that not even a mouse can get in to be killed. There pups eat pancakes--or starve--and big dogs get no better fare than nutted biscuits. Last week the dogs rebelled, as by a secret animal accord, sat back on their haunches and poured out shuddering howls. . . .

Distracted, the rich and pious Shet Arjunlal dashed about like a Mexican jumping-bean on a skillet. When told that one dog had leaped over a barrier, chewed off the ear of another dog and eaten it, Shet Arjunlal tore his garments.

Wailing, he caused the howling cur to be led before him. A stern judge, he sentenced the ear-eating canine to fast for two days. Weeping, he cried: "Oh, sinful dog, how do I know that mine own father may not have transmigrated into thee? Lest I punish him in thee for this sin, I will fast with thee these two days."