Smiley había ganado siempre con este animal, hasta el día en que encontró un perro que no tenía patas traseras porque se las había cortado una sierra circular. Cuando In pelea se había prolongado bastante y ya se habían vaciado todos los bolsillos, al ir Andrés Jackson a morder su pedazo favorito, se dio cuenta de que se habían burlado de él, y que el otro perro lo tenía a su merced, por así decir. Se lo vio sorprendido, avergonzado y acobardado; no hizo ni un solo esfuerzo, y desde ese instante, el otro lo sacudió con rudeza. Dirigió una mirada a Smiley, que parecía decirle que su corazón estaba sufriendo y que era su culpa, la de Smiley, el haber traído un perro que no tenía patas traseras que él pudiera morder, porque eso era lo que se acostumbraba en una pelea. Acto seguido dio algunos pasos rengueando, se acostó y murió. Era un buen perro este Andrés Jackson. Sería famoso si viviera. Porque tenía madera y genio. Lo aseguro, aunque las circunstancias lo hayan traicionado. Sería absurdo no reconocer que para luchar de esta manera, un perro debe tener un talento especial. Siempre me pongo triste cuando pienso en su último torneo y en la forma en que acabó.
Smiley always come out winner on that pup, till he harnessed a dog once that didn't have no hind legs, because they'd been sawed off by a circular saw, and when the thing had gone along far enough, and the money was all up, and he come to make a snatch for his pet holt, he saw in a minute how he'd been imposed on, and how the other dog had him in the door, so to speak, and he 'peared surprised, and then he looked sorter discouraged-like, and didn't try no more to win the fight, and so he got shucked out bad. He give Smiley a look, as much as to say his heart was broke, and it was his fault, for putting up a dog that hadn't no hind legs for him to take holt of, which was his main dependence in a fight, and then he limped off a piece and laid down and died. It was a good pup, was that Andrew Jackson, and would have made a name for hisself if he'd lived, for the stuff was in him, and he had genius—I know it, because he hadn't had no opportunities to speak of, and it don't stand to reason that a dog could make such a fight as he could under them circumstances, if he hadn't no talent. It always makes me feel sorry when I think of that last fight of his'n, and the way it turned out.