MAN'S FIRST FRIEND 



Mr. Kipling, in one of those happy phrases 

 of his, has spoken of the dog as man's first 

 friend, a phrase which correctly describes 

 the relationship between the human and 

 canine races. This is an idea which Mr. 

 Maeterlinck has beautifully amplified in his 

 charming essay on the "Death of a Little 

 Dog." If you have not read it, may I advise 

 you to do so without delay. "Man loves 

 the dog," he says, "but how much more 

 ought he to love it, if he considered, in the 

 inflexible harmony of the laws of nature, the 

 sole exception, which is that love of a being 

 that succeeds in piercing, in order to draw 

 closer to us, the partitions, every elsewhere 



