A Box to Hide In by James Thurber first appeared in The New Yorker (January 24, 1931) and was also reprinted in the collection The Middle-Aged Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935). “I waited till the large woman with the awful hat took up her sack of groceries and went out, peering at the tomatoes…

James Thurber’s dog Muggs was a cantankerous Airedale terrier who loved to bite people, especially strangers. Muggs was a “big, burly, choleric dog” that excluded Thurber from the family. Muggs refused to kill mice, turning them into virtual domestic pets, but bit humans instead. Thurber immortalized Muggs in his story, The Dog That Bit People…