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neck. The poor creature uttered a cry that froze my very 

 heart. She made no attempt to avenge my blow, but 

 looked mildly upon me in her dying agonies. I would 

 have given all the world to have recalled her to life. It 

 was as if I had murdered a friend. Some French soldiers 

 who saw my signal found me some hours afterward weep- 

 ing beside her dead body. 



22. " Ah, well," said he, after a mournful silence, " I 

 have been in the wars in Germany, Spain, Prussia, and 

 France, but I never had had such sensations as were pro- 

 duced by the lonely desert and my beautiful sultana. In 

 the waste of sand you felt the terrible majesty of God 

 alone. Mignonne came, and with her human sympathies 

 and fears. She died, and the terrible remained. Her 

 mournful cry and the reproachful look of her eyes be- 

 fore they closed in death will haunt me to my dying day." 



CHAPTER V. 

 THE GUARDIANS OF THE HOUSEHOLD. 



1. " I THINK every family should have a dog ; it is like 

 having a perpetual baby; it is the plaything and crony of 

 the whole house. It keeps them all young." These words 

 are from that highly cultivated friend of dogs, Dr. John 

 Brown, of Scotland. They express a sentiment which has, 

 to a great extent, been anticipated by the history of that 

 one of all the kingdom of animals that has kept close to 

 man in every part of the globe. Indeed, the friendship 

 of man and his dog is traced back to so remote a period 

 of history, that it can not be certainly determined whether 



