OUR FRIEND THE DOG 



dinary passage from darkness to 

 light, effected? Did we seek out 

 the poodle, the collie, or the mas- 

 tiff from among the wolves and 

 the jackals, or did he come 

 spontaneously to us? We cannot 

 tell. So far as our human annals 

 stretch, he is at our side, as at 

 present ; but what are human an- 

 nals in comparison with the times 

 of which we have no witness? 

 The fact remains that he is there in 

 our houses, as ancient, as rightly 

 placed, as perfectly adapted to our 



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