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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: OUR DOGS. The misery of keeping a dog, is his dying so soon; but to be ture, if he lived for Jifty years, and then died, what would become of met Sir Walter Scott. There is in every animal's eye a dim image and gleam of humanity, a flash of strange light through which their life looks out and up to our great mystery of command over them, and claims the fellowship if the creature if not of the sold. ? Ruskin. To Sir Walter and Lady Trevelyan's fflum and faithful PETER, with much regard. OUR DOGS. WAS bitten severely by a little dog when with my mother at Moffat Wells, being then three years of age, and I have remained bitten ever since in the matter of dogs. I remember that little dog, and can at this moment not only recall my pain and terror ? I have no doubt I was to blame ?but also her face; and were I allowed to search among the shades in the cynic Elysian fields, I could pick her out still. All my life I have been familiar with these faithful creatures, making friends of them, and speaking to them; and the only time I ever addressed the public, about a year after being bitten, was at the farm of Kirklaw Hill, near Biggar, when the text, given out from an empty cart in which the ploughmen had placed me, was Jacob's dog, and my entire sermon was as follows: ? Some say that Jacob had a black dog (the o very long), and some say that Jacob had a white dog, but / (imagine the presumption of four years ) say Jacob had a brown dog, and a brown dog it shall be. I had many intimacies from this time onwards ? Baw- tie, of the inn; Keeper, the carrier's bull-terrier; Tiger, a huge tawny mastiff from Edinburgh, which I think must have been an uncle of Rab's; all the sheep dogsat Callands? Spring, Mavis, Yarrow, Swallow, Cheviot, etc.; but it was...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217874045 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217874045 |
| Weight | 0.80 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.55 In |
| List Price | $29.96 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 242 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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