Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

London, England October 16, 1733.
On Monday last as two young lads were fighting at Clerkenwell-Green, a large dog, belonging to a Brewer’s Dray, passing by, seized one of the boys by the hand, and not only bit him in a cruel manner, but held so fast that it was with difficullty the boys hand could get loose; after which the dog seized another dog, and fought for some time, which gathered a crowd, amongst whom the boy that was bit being standing and the dog being parted from the other returned and seized the same boy about the groin, and held so fast that he could not be seperated, where upon one of the company fetched a cafe knife, to cut the dog’s throat, which he accordingly effected, but in a hurry and surprize cut the sinews on the back of the man’s hand and it is thought he will loose his hand. The boy was taken away in order to be carried to St. Thomas’s Hospital, died on the way.