Hi motus ammorum atque haec certamina tanta 

 pulveris exigui jaftu compressa q me s cunt. 



< Let me record here as briefly as may be 

 some of the deeds and qualities of these dogs 

 of mine. If I do so with discretion I shall, I 

 hope, escape the censure of Duke, the Great 

 Dane, and Soo-ti,the Pekinese, those strangely 

 assorted associates and friends who are now 

 couched, each in his separate dignity, before 

 my fire. 



< Of Chang, the Cuban-Maltese, I have 

 already spoken. That amiable alien had, 

 however, been preceded in our home and our 

 affections by Neptune, a Newfoundland of 

 the true type, who was imported into this 

 country from his place of origin in very early 

 life. One of his younger brothers afterwards 

 followed him and was given to Charles 

 Dickens. Nep for some time, as I grieve to 

 remember, lived in a stable-yard, attached to 

 a kennel by a chain. At any rate these were 

 his headquarters, and it became the custom 

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