OUR FRIEND THE DOG 



but jealous power; to learn that 

 doors are important and capri- 

 cious volitions, which sometimes 

 lead to felicity, but which most 

 often, hermetically closed, mute 

 and stern, haughty and heartless, 

 remain deaf to all entreaties; to 

 admit, once and for all, that the 

 essential good things of life, the 

 indisputable blessings, generally 

 imprisoned in pots and stewpans, 

 are almost always inaccessible; 

 to know how to look at them 

 with laboriously-acquired indiffer^ 

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