William has been criticised by the RSPCA for stories where he is cruel to animals . For example , in one story , William 's friend Henry paints his dog blue as a circus exhibit . In a different story , William and another dog owner have a competition to see which dog can kill the most rats in a certain time . Some stories have been removed from modern publication , such as " William and the Nasties " from '' William The Detective '' , in which William suspects a Jewish shop owner of dishonesty and forms a mob to evict him . ( " Nasty " was William 's mispronunciation of Nazi . ) This story was written in 1935 , before the Second World War and The Holocaust , when Hitler and the Nazis were not seen as they are in modern times , and was probably meant as parody . By the end of the story , William and the Outlaws help capture a thief who had imprisoned the shopkeeper , and the shopkeeper generously allows them to take many items free
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