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longings as his mistress elegant upholstered 

 apartments, satin and velvet cushions, and a 

 bed as good as the house affords ; travelling- 

 satchels and napping -baskets, various gar- 

 ments, table service and toilet articles, play- 

 things, ribbons, costly harness, and valuable 

 jewelry set with gems. There is hardly an 

 end to his possessions. Besides this, he often 

 has a maid specially devoted to his service, 

 and he gives luncheon parties. When ill, he is 

 attended by the family physician, if the latter is 

 either very humane or afraid of losing patron- 

 age ; and when he dies he is buried in a costly 

 casket, and commemorated by a marble monu- 

 ment, though sometimes he is scientifically 

 " preserved," placed in a jewelled receptacle 

 too valuable to be buried, and kept on exhi- 

 bition in the home his death has made deso- 

 late. A dog thus treated has almost ceased 

 to be a dog. He is a product of fashion, and 

 seems hardly to belong to the race of " dog- 

 gy " dogs, whom we all love and like to have 

 about us. 



So intimate for generations has been the 

 dog's relation with the human race that he is 

 truly becoming almost painfully like us. Not 



