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A pariah dog would slink into the courtyard from time to time in search of a morsel of food.

“If I find you on my property tomorrow I’ll have you castrated like the pariah dog that you are! I’ll have you killed!”

Most were pariah dogs that licked a stranger's hand and whined with delight when petted.

The wall presented no difficulty; but as Ananda dropped lightly into the road he startled a half-starved pariah dog returning to the town after its nightly prowl for food.

When at last we got her near Dundora, the latter's mahout, viciously belabouring her thick skull with the ankus, told us that the cause of her fright was only a small pariah dog.