"The Dog and Mr. Morency."
A tale of a miserable man in an unsatisfying marriage, burdened with the care of his wife's pomeranian. He feels "the gradual growth and hardening of a peculiar hatred" and vows to shoot either dog or wife. But leading the animal to the end of the esplanade, service revolver in pocket, he meditates on the thousands of dogs being walked around the world, and on his own "miserable, despicable...absolute caricature of a dog...He saw in the reflecting eyes of the small dog a small reflection of himself. He saw the dim light of something abject, downtrodden, a little forlorn, deeply unhappy...And in that moment he could have shot himself." In John O'London's Weekly (October 28, 1938), The Flying Goat (1939), Thirty-One Selected Tales (1947). Reprinted in Short Story Magazine (undated issue, 1940s?), Weekend (October 18-22, 1961).