AS TO DOGS 



practice, and he did not propose to get lost. 

 He proposed to stick by me. 



I thought of Senator Vest's remarks when 

 he appeared in court at St. Louis for a tramp 

 whose dog was killed by a neighbor. Vest 

 spoke of one's children and how, no matter with 

 what tender kindness and care they were 

 reared, they would leave home and parents 

 often without a farewell. 



But there was one friend of man, said the 

 Senator, who never deserted him; a friend who 

 would lick the hand that had no food to offer ; 

 a friend who, when death came, when the mas- 

 ter had finished his life, when all others had 

 returned from the graveyard, would mourn at 

 the grave itself — his last, his best friend, his 

 dog ! I thought of that and then of this puppy, 

 a little fellow offering his devotion for my 

 friendship and at that moment giving me a 

 friendly glance from his eyes. He was hke 

 Jefferson C. James, who once ran for Mayor in 

 San Francisco, and who said in a somewhat 

 famous speech: "I seen my duty and I done 

 it." James was not elected, but that has noth- 

 ing to do w4th this pup. 



We followed Sheikh Ali and Akmet Haffez 

 across the plains for miles. We saw a rab- 



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