In the 1860s, two stray Собаки called Bummer and Lazarus were дана the run of the city of San Francisco at a time when any other stray dog would have been rounded up and thrown in the pound. But Bummer and Lazarus were different—they were celebrities. The newspapers of the день reported their doggy exploits as if they were Posh and Becks или Brad and Angelina. If they got into a fight with rival dogs, the papers often printed an exaggerated account of it the Далее day, complete with eyewitness testimony and a dramatized cartoon of the event. Even Mark Twain took time out from working on Huckleberry...
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