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future marked out, finally to become perhaps 

 such scourges of society as M.P.s who make 

 Speeches when Parliament is not sitting. 

 Judging from the columns of the newspapers, 

 there must be many thousands who come to 

 this most deplorable end ; and if I can only 

 turn one from such a vicious course, I shall 

 feel I have benefitted mankind even more 

 than by killing rats and other vermin. 



Now I must return to the subject of dogs, 

 and in doing so I will first begin on their 

 masters, for to make a good dog, a good 

 master is also absolutely necessary. Any- 

 body that has thought about it knows that 

 as is the master, so is the dog. A quiet man 

 has a quiet dog, a quarrelsome man a 

 quarrelsome dog, a bright quick man a 

 bright quick dog, and a loafing idle ruffian 

 a slinking slothful cur. 



First of all, then, the dog's master must 

 understand dog talk ; for they do talk, and 



