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- # Attack by a bull-dog and further damage to his attire
## Overview
This subsection, titled "Attack by a bull-dog and further damage to his attire," is an excerpt from the text file [israel_potter.txt](arke:01KG89J1DKC9HHJRKY25JZBEXW). It is part of [CHAPTER XIII. HIS ESCAPE FROM THE HOUSE, WITH VARIOUS ADVENTURES FOLLOWING.](arke:01KG8AJJ261FWJ1RK528BTY9AX) and belongs to the larger collection [Melville Complete Works](arke:01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW). The text describes a chaotic encounter between the character Israel and a dog, resulting in further destruction of Israel's clothing.
## Context
This narrative segment follows the events described in the preceding subsection, [Seeking help from a second friend and encountering his wife](arke:01KG8AK5N3VTG6XFKR6DRKJZY5), and precedes the events in [Morning on the village outskirts and successful acquisition of new clothes](arke:01KG8AK67QTAMZWX7DA1E2E8NC). The text is sourced from the file [israel_potter.txt](arke:01KG89J1DKC9HHJRKY25JZBEXW), which is part of the [Melville Complete Works](arke:01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW) collection.
## Contents
The text details an incident where a bull-dog attacks Israel, tearing off the skirts of his coat, reducing it to a spencer. The dog also damages Israel's hat, destroying its crown, and further tears his breeches. The description emphasizes the tattered state of Israel's attire, likening his remaining hair to heather on the highlands. This encounter leaves Israel in an even more distressed and disheveled state, forcing him to retreat once more.
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- Once more poor Israel decamped, and made for another friend. But here a
monstrous bull-dog, indignant that the peace of a quiet family should
be disturbed by so outrageous a tatterdemalion, flew at Israel’s
unfortunate coat, whose rotten skirts the brute tore completely off,
leaving the coat razeed to a spencer, which barely came down to the
wearer’s waist. In attempting to drive the monster away, Israel’s hat
fell off, upon which the dog pounced with the utmost fierceness, and
thrusting both paws into it, rammed out the crown and went snuffling
the wreck before him. Recovering the wretched hat, Israel again beat a
retreat, his wardrobe sorely the worse for his visits. Not only was his
coat a mere rag, but his breeches, clawed by the dog, were slashed into
yawning gaps, while his yellow hair waved over the top of the crownless
beaver, like a lonely tuft of heather on the highlands.
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- Attack by a bull-dog and further damage to his attire