P ARD 



mer he takes sportsmen fishing and in win- 

 ter he fishes for the market. On all these 

 trips Pard acts as first mate, and there is 

 little that he does not know about fish and 

 fishing. 



"Shorty" tells me that in the winter he 

 has an alarm-clock to call him at four o'clock 

 in the morning but that Pard seldom fails 

 to paw his arm a few moments before the 

 alarm sounds. 



He has never been known to forget his 

 good manners on board the boat though 

 stormbound for forty-eight hours, and he 

 will not drink a drop of water even in the 

 warmest weather until he reaches land. Pard 

 reasons as well as thinks. 



Pard has but two dislikes; one is wasps, 

 the other bull-dogs. He snarls and snaps 

 at the former and pounces upon the latter. 

 He knows he is the son of a bull-bitch but 

 evidently does not like to be reminded of 

 the fact. 



Last winter Avalon was partly destroyed 



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