trary (with due reservations and precautions 

 in regard to long-haired dogs and muddy 

 weather), assert and practise the principle that 

 if we are to get the utmost good and the keen- 

 est pleasure out of our association with ani- 

 mals we must give them the right to share our 

 working hours as well as our leisure, to occupy 

 our house and room as well as to accompany 

 us in our walks. Thus they will learn from 

 us lessons mainly tending to elevate a carpet 

 into a position of inviolable sanctity, and we 

 shall be taught by them how easy it is (for a 

 dog) to be loyal and friendly and faithful, 

 and (for a cat) to be proud without ostentation 

 and affectionate without servility. 



Docta per incertas audax discurrere silvas 

 colllbus hlrsutas atque a git are feras, 



non gravlbus vinclis unquam consueta teneri 

 verbera nee niveo corpore saeva patl. 



molli namque sinu domini dominaeque jace- 

 bam et noram in strata lassa cubare toro. 



The unknown who, more than sixteen hundred 

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