loved him. Yet he sometimes treated her 

 without discretion, for he had a passion for 

 carrying things in his mouth, and her para- 

 sols were usually sacrificed to his irrepressible 

 requests. Once, when she returned from a 

 drive he met her in the street, and, as she had 

 no parasol, he seized the muff which hung 

 from her neck and, prancing with delight, 

 dragged her at a great pace head-first in at 

 the front door, through the hall, and up the 

 staircase, where I fortunately met and re- 

 leased her. His genius for protecting a woman 

 was not exempt from a certain mischievous 

 pleasure in teasing and bullying her. 

 %& The same characteristic showed itself in 

 Ben, a handsome and ingenious retriever of a 

 later date, the dog 



who now without my aid 

 Hunts through the shadow-land \ himself a 

 shade. 



S Whenever Ben's master had to spend a 

 night from home, Ben immediately assumed 

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