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inspiration.

CONTENTS

PART I
PUPPYHOOD

TITLE AUTHOR PAGE

We Meet at Morn _Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley_ 3

The Lost Puppy _Henry Firth Wood_ 5

A Laugh in Church _Anonymous_ 8

Treasures _Anonymous_ 10

That There Long Dog _Alice Gill Ferguson_ 11

My Friend _Anonymous_ 12

Ted _Maxine Anna Buck_ 14

Little Lost Pup _Anonymous_ 16

My Brindle Bull-Terrier _Coletta Ryan_ 18

Lauth _Robert Burns_ 20

The Drowned Spaniel _Charles Tennyson Turner_ 21

PART II
THE HUMAN RELATIONSHIP

Cluny _William Croswell Doane_ 25

The Best Friend _Meribah Abbott_ 26

My Dog and I _Alice J. Chester_ 27

My Gentleman _Anonymous_ 29

The Dead Boy's Portrait and His Dog _Gerald Massey_ 31

Advice to a Dog Painter _Jonathan Swift_ 33

Mercy's Reward _Sir Edwin Arnold_ 34

Beau and the Water Lily _William Cowper_ 37

Petronius _Frederic P. Ladd_ 39

My Dog _Joseph M. Anderson_ 40

Charity's Eye _William Rounseville Alger_ 42

To Blanco _J.G. Holland_ 44

The Ould Hound _Arthur Stringer_ 46

The Miser's Only Friend _George Crabbe_ 48

Poor Dog Tray _Thomas Campbell_ 51

My Comforter _Anonymous_ 53

The Little White Dog _May Ellis Nichols_ 54

The Irish Greyhound _Katherine Phillips_ 55

The Vagabonds _J.T. Trowbridge_ 57

In Cineam _Sir John Davies_