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the housing of the thousands of dogs now kept throughout the world, 

 but also such apparently small items as collars, chains, clothing, 

 leads, whips, etc., and the manufacture of dog biscuits and other food 

 for dogs, and in this an enormous trade is done, which was forcibly 

 brought before me when I was speaking to a well-known repre- 

 sentative of one of the largest biscuit factories the world has yet 

 seen. 



He said, pointing to a gentleman who had just left him, " That 

 is Baron what order for biscuits do you think he has given me ? " 

 I expressed inability to guess more than a couple of tons (knowing 

 my own modest orders, of half a ton at a time, seemed to 

 represent a lot of canine meals). He replied, " Ten tons ! " 

 I thought the foreign nobleman referred to must keep a good 

 many dogs, or there would be danger of some of that two hundred 

 hundred-weight of feeding stuff becoming mouldy before they got 

 through it ! 



