Arnie, The Money-Hungry Beagle

Peter Jamison: LARGO — Arnie is a dour 10-year-old beagle known for his eccentricities, not the least of which is a propensity to eat hundreds of dollars in cash.

Seven years ago, the dog devoured $150 that Largo residents Corey and Hope O'Kelley had left out on a coffee table. The money was a gift from Hope's father, and the couple managed to recover $100 intact after it had passed through Arnie's digestive tract.

A long time went by after that. Arnie, known to his human companions as "the weird one" — possessed of a misanthropic bent at odds with the affectionate manners of the O'Kelleys' other dog, Hoover — lived his own, quiet life, immersed in whatever thoughts eccentric, money-eating…