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STRAY- AW AYS 



" God help thim that's sthrugghn' in foreign lands," 

 as the Galway women say when their daughters go 

 to service in England ; sweet omelettes for breakfast 

 and many other surprising things will be their portion. 



A wind that would have done credit to IMarch was 

 making life a burden to the yellow lime trees by the 

 canal, and it was with March's false radiance that the 

 sun glared in upon us while we ranged over the plates 

 of black bread and cold sausage and dried herrings 

 and whortleberry jam, and gave an intermittent 

 attention to the assortment of dogs dozing against 



GREAT DANES 



the warm wall of a sheltered alley outside, in all their 

 wonted sloth and self-seeking. Since arriving in 

 Denmark we had faithfully and trustingly waited to 

 see the Great Dane in his native luxuriance, as the 

 pet of the butcher's boy, the commonest of street 

 loafers, but so far he was withheld. Curs of new and 

 dreadful variety there were; a blend amounting 

 almost to a national species, of the crocodile, the 

 jackal, and the wool-mat, and in every street might 

 be encountered pugs, pale in colour, enormous in size 

 and dignity, and fully entitled to a special class at 

 any dog show, the breed to be called the Great Pug; 

 but there was nothing else great that we could dis- 

 cover. The Great Pug, however, was in himself a 

 satiating spectacle. 



