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 dogs like to think. In contrast to most members of his sociable breed, he disdained human contact, except with Corey, his original owner.
Then, last week, his hunger for greenbacks reasserted itself.
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