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had thereby been braught into an unhappy frame of 

 mind. Sympathizing with his sitnation, I preferred 

 to laugh him out of his humor rather than to beat hhn 

 with my stick. I regret that I did not take the other 

 alternative, for I made the .poor l)rutc my implacable 

 enemy by my pretense of contempt for him. 



Only a ehort time since, I knew of a case in which 

 a. whole famil^^ would have been burned to death in 

 their house, in the night, if the dog had not barked 

 and waked them; and of another case, in which a whole 

 family would have died in the night from coal gas winch 

 was coming out of the stove, if the dOg had not barked 

 and waked tliem. 



There are many books filled with stories about the 

 good things dogs have done, and many other books 

 might be filled with other stories Just as good. They 

 have always been the friends and companions of human 

 beings, and are generally very kind to cluldren. The 

 gi'eat naturalist, Cuvier, who studied this whole sub- 

 ject, thinks that men could spare any other animal 

 Jx-tter than they could spare dogs. 



Some of the greatest and best men that have ever 

 "lived have been very fond of them. Such men as Sir 

 Walter Scott and Sir Edwin Landsecr. And poor men 

 often find them their best friends. A poor, sick colored 

 man, sometime since, travelled on foot hundreds of miles 

 to the hospital at Louisville, Kentucky, to see if he 

 could get cured, having with him his dog. But lyhen 



