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OUR FRIEND THE DOG 



three-cornered menace. He was 

 beautiful after the manner of a 

 beautiful, natural monster that 

 has complied strictly with the 

 laws of its species. And what a 

 smile of attentive obligingness, of 

 incorruptible innocence, of affec- 

 tionate submission, of boundless 

 gratitude and total self-abandon- 

 ment lit up, at the least caress, 

 that adorable mask of ugliness! 

 Whence exactly did that smile 

 emanate? From the ingenuous 

 and melting eyes? From the 

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