KIPLING SAID 



"Buy a pup and your money will buy love unflinching that can- 

 not lie." 



INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. 



A Plain and Common Sense 

 Talk About 



&& DOGS &e 



AT LAST! The crowning and final effort of my life — 

 for dogs — is accomplished, and this third and final edition 

 of "EVERYTHING ABOUT DOGS" is out. 



Many days and nights 'till the clock would strike up to three in the 

 morning, have I sat at my desk and written, handicapped by my eyes, (one 

 of them having been operated on and a cataract removed), and when 1 

 started this book I was afraid the strain on them would be more than they 

 could stand, but took the chance, for I felt it was my duty to dogs, because 

 I knew how much good it would do dogs, to get to the dog owners of this 

 country what is in this book, and my reward for all this labor of love is 

 ever present within me, and I am now fully repaid, aside from the profit 

 consideration part of it in dollars, and this part not so great as it should 

 have been, due to the inflated cost of paper and everything else pertaining 

 to attempting to get out a book in war times, but I never started to do 

 anything and changed my mind, or failed to get through with it. I've had 

 human friends "change their minds" — and fail me — in time of need, but 

 never a dog — and this is another "difference" between a man and a dog. 

 The word "man" used here, applies to both sexes in humans — as I have 

 found it, even if the women are now voting in several states. I want to 

 say, before going any further, that I am not writing through any spirit of 

 egotism or self-flattery, not "throwing bouquets at myself" — (never could 

 stand for this in anyone), and I hope you will not misjudge me as to this, 

 for I've been truthful and honest all my life, and will keep it up this way. 

 There never was another "dog book" just like this — others may be larger, 

 more pretentious, the language used of a higher grade — and all that, but 

 this book is what I believe, and feel, will accomplish its ami— to do good 

 to dogs — and that's what I wrote it for. There is so much in the book 

 that is good (not all my own real knowledge), but this book means, and isr^— 



