three weeks off with pay to study for the bar exam. I was staying with relatives while we looked for a house. At about two every afternoon, the neighbor from across the street and down two houses would let his Great Dane out. The neighbor would stand on his porch and watch the dog come over to the lawn of the house where I was staying and drop a load. He didn't say or do anything. Then the dog would run back to his house and he'd let it back inside.

One day I saw the dog coming. I went to the door and waited for it to get in position to do its business. Then I yanked open the door and shouted at the dog. It yelped like I had shot it and went running and moaning back to its owner. It never pooped on my relative's lawn again.