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MAN'S FIRST FRIEND 



MR. KIPLING, in one of those happy phrases 

 of his, has spoken of the dog as man's first 

 friend, a phrase which correctly describes 

 the relationship between the human and 

 canine races. This is an idea which Mr. 

 Maeterlinck has beautifully amplified in his 

 charming essay on the "Death of a Little 

 Dog/' If you have not read it, may I advise 

 you to do so without delay. "Man loves 

 the dog/' he says, "but how much more 

 ought he to love it, if he considered, in the 

 inflexible harmony of the laws of nature, the 

 sole exception, which is that love of a being 

 that succeeds in piercing, in order to draw 

 closer to us, the partitions, every elsewhere 



