OUR FRIEND THE DOG 



;which nature lays upon the in- 

 stinct that rises in order to ap- 

 proach a brighter region^) . . . 

 An ill of a mysterious character, 

 Vvhich seems specially to punish 

 the only animal that succeeds in 

 leaving the circle in which it is 

 born; an indefinite ill that carries 

 off hundreds of intelligent little 

 dogs, came to put an end to the 

 destiny and the happy education 

 of Pelleas. And now all those 

 efforts to achieve a little more 

 light ; all that ardour in loving, 

 H 38 H 



''" lla **v f***-"'' 



