In the 1860s, two stray Hunde called Bummer and Lazarus were gegeben 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 Tag reported their doggy exploits as if they were Posh and Becks oder Brad and Angelina. If they got into a fight with rival dogs, the papers often printed an exaggerated account of it the Weiter 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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