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not sell the dog today, remember that there are 

 other days to follow. What I am going to add 

 now I know a great many dealers and breeders 

 will laugh at and declare me a fit subject for an 

 alienist to work on, but it is fundamentally true 

 just the same, and is this: Never ask or take 

 for a dog more than you know (not guess) the 

 dog is worth. This is nothing but ordinary, 

 common everyday justice that every man has 

 every right to demand of his fellow man, and 

 every man that is a gentleman will recognize 

 the truth and force of. 



I was reading a novel this summer, and one 

 statement amongst a great many good ones im- 

 pressed me. It stated "that all men were divided 

 into two classes: those that behaved themselves, 

 and those who did not." We all know that 

 society has divided men into many classes, but 

 I think any thoughtful man will confess, in the 

 last analysis, that the novelist's classification was 

 the correct one. I need not apply the moral. 



It will be somewhat of a temptation to resist 

 taking what a party, liberally supplied with this 

 world's goods, will frequently in their ignorance 

 offer for a dog that appeals to them, but which 

 the owner knows perfectly well is not worth the 

 price offered. If he belongs to the class that 

 behaves themselves he will tell the prospective 

 buyer what the dog is intrinsically worth, and 



