Dogged Man

Bobby stood under sentence of death. He had killed a cat, although the cat had unmistakably struck him first. A few years ago he had saved a child from drowning, but nobody counted that. Bobby was a 13-year-old greyhound, rich in the love of Charles Harold Stuart Parsons, optician and magician of Sheffield.

C. H. S. Parsons is a stubborn man. When, in September 1941, a magistrate ordered him to destroy his dog, he balked. He was fined. He appealed. He was fined again. Costs began to climb. Other dogmen heard of his defiance, chipped in $800. Parsons spent $2,400 of his own. Bobby continued to look up to Parsons and Parsons continued to look down on courts.

Last week the end of the battle was near. Parsons refused to pay an additional $676, faced jail. Said he firmly: "I do not intend to have Bobby destroyed."

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