the heroic alarm to your last 

 breath. 



There is the great ancestral 

 duty, the essential duty, stronger 

 than death, which not even man's 

 will and anger are able to check. 

 All our humble history, linked 

 with that of the dog in our first 

 struggles against every breathing 

 thing, tends to prevent his forget- 

 ting it. And when, in our safer 

 dwelling-places of to-day, we hap- 

 pen to punish him for his untimely 

 Zeal, he throws us a glance of aston- 

 ished reproach, as though to point 



