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sleep with comfort out in the snow, while a 

 short-coated one will shiver in a thick bed of 

 straw. Picture to yourself, as you tuck the 

 warm blankets round you on a cold winter's 

 night, what your thin- coated pointer is under- 

 going in a draughty kennel on a bare plank 

 bed, chained up to a " misery trap " in the 

 back yard, which is half full of drifted snow. 

 Think of it, and get up and put the dog in a 

 spare loose box in the stable for the night, and 

 have a proper kennel made for him in the 

 morning. 



I once had a favourite dog named 

 " Rough " that died of distemper. A small 

 child asked me a few days afterwards if dogs 

 when they died went to heaven, and I, not 

 knowing better, answered, *' Yes " ; and the 

 child said, " Won't Rough wag his old tail 

 when he sees me come in ? " When you 

 " come in " I hope there will be all your 

 departed dogs wagging their tails to meet 



