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society of his master, and be in truth a member of his 

 family. To have the best results, therefore, one should 

 keep only as many as can be admitted to such privileges. 

 I have never looked in one of the great kennels where a 

 swarm of dogs was kept, without thinking of children in 

 some great asylum, where there might indeed be every 

 comfort and luxury, but, after all, no home. Though 

 the fare be coarse and scanty, still man or dog will thrive 

 best where there is close personal sympathy and compan- 

 ionship. 



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