The Road to Dumbiedykes 



CHAPTER I 

 A Boy and a Dog 



The keeping of Collies, Fox Terriers 

 and in fact most other kinds of dogs 

 in cities is a crime. I speak of course 

 of real dogs, not those poor degenerates 

 you may see in my lady's limousine or 

 lap. These may be interesting to the 

 student of animal breeding as illus- 

 trations of how men can emasculate 

 the brute creation through the applica- 

 tion of well understood principles of 

 selection, blood concentration and out- 

 crossing, but the results are not to my 

 mind particularly edifying. 



It is interesting doubtless to know 

 that animals that are all body with 

 no legs can be produced. It is inter- 



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