

OUR FRIEND THE DOG 



allow yourself to be tempted or 

 bribed and, lost in the night 

 without help, prolong 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 breath- 

 ing thing, tends to prevent his 

 forgetting it. And when, in our 

 safer dwelling-places of to-day, 

 H 19 H 





