The Dog That Bit People by James Thurber “The Dog That Bit People” is the story of Columbus native James Thurber’s Airedale Terrier Muggs, the worst of the many pet dogs he had during his lifetime. Not only did Muggs bite family members, neighbors, and salesmen, he also bit a congressman and Lieutenant-Governor Malloy while…

  A Box to Hide In by James Thurber Published in the print edition of the January 24, 1931, issue. James Thurber, who died in 1961, was a cartoonist, a writer, a journalist, and a playwright. This story opens with a man asking a grocery clerk for a box – one large enough to crawl…