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food at regular hours, all the exercise you can manage, 

 and he will thrive even in London. 



Certainly his heavy coat is a drawback in wet and 

 muddy weather, and if circumstances compel you to keep 

 him in town without the possibility of a roll in dry 

 straw when he comes home dirty, you must make up 

 your mind to rough dry him before he settles down 

 upon your Turkey carpet. But his comradeship is well 

 worth that five minutes' trouble. In his quaint, unobtru- 

 sive way he will make himself at home in a drawing-room, 

 a railway carriage, a hansom cab, or on the show bench. 

 Wherever you take him, he is ready to adapt himself to 

 his surroundings, sensible, even-tempered, picturesque, and 

 never ridiculous. 



And, after all, there are few companions, even human, 

 of whom you can expect so much, and get it. 



