THE FRIEND OF MAN 



I'E come here, at the last, but not the least, to 



what Cuvier, the great naturalist, called 



" the completest, the most singular, and the 



most useful conquest made by man " ; that 



is, the conquest, which brought to us as 



spoil the trust and friendship of the dog. 



Who can estimate, indeed, the comfort, help, pleasure 



which that friendship gives with lavish hand, yet which 



asks for so little in return save careless kindness. 



There have been many to-days since the dog and 

 the man faced life and death in company, but if even 

 for this to-day, all the sick at heart, the disappointed, 

 the bereaved ones of the human race now existing 

 in this round world of ours were to uplift fair testi- 

 mony, what a loud cry of gratitude would go up to the 

 Great White Throne for the " keen kind eyes that read the 

 whole heart's pain," and for the sympathy which does not 

 seek for speech. 



Surely there is scarcely a man in the world who does 

 not find it easier to look into the eyes of his dog when his 

 own are full of tears, than into the eyes of his nearest and 

 dearest. For in their steady wistful calm, and in the very 



