COLLEGE-STREET POLICE OFFICE (Dublin)

THE DOG AND THE MONKEY. — A poort itinerant Italian, named Pietro Giraldi, leading a white Newfoundland dog, and bearing in his arms the little monkey which he has been in the habit of exhibiting in the streets, came into the board-room, to answer a charge preferred by Mr. M'Dowell in November last.
Pietro stated, in his defence, that he had purchased the dog about nine months since, from a person living in Bride-street, for 8s., although 30s. were asked at first. Since that time he had trained the dog to carry his monkey, and they now agreed so well that they ate, played, and slept together. After leaving Dublin, he took them to Belfast, and from thence to Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Newcastle, Manchester, and Liverpool, from whence he brought them over a few days since ina steam-packet. "And does your lorships tink," said Pietro, "if I sthole the dog, I vould show him in de sthrees here again?"
Mr. GABBETT conceived that this was a good point of law, and served to show that Pietro was unaware that the dog was stolen.
Pietro here offered to point out the person who had sold the dog to him.
Mr. GABBETT said it could not be too generally known that any one stealing a dog, or receiving him, knowing him to be stolen, was liable to a penalty of 10£
Mr. M'Dowell expressed his conviction of Pietro's innocence, and his readiness to give him 8s. the sum he had paid for the dog.
Mr. GABBETT. — This, I think, is a very fair propositioin — what do you say, Pietro?
After giving a longing look at the dog, and then at the monkey, which he still continued to hold in his arms, Pietro averted his eyes, which were filled with tears. "I cannot help it, my Lor," said he, "the shentleman speak very fair, and I must give de dog."
"Come, Nero," said Mr. M'Dowell, as he left the office; and the dog followed slowly, looking back at his late master, and his companion the monkey.
"Got be vit you, my poor dog," ejaculated the disconsolate Pietro, as he retired with a heavy heart from the board-room.