Trouser _Anonymous_ 139

Rover in Church _James Buckham_ 141

PART IV
THE DOG'S HEREAFTER

Billy _Lorenzo Sears_ 145

The Bond _George H. Nettle_ 147

To a Dog _Anonymous_ 148

Canine Immortality _Robert Southey_ 150

A Friendly Welcome _Lord Byron_ 152

Exemplary Nick _Sydney Smith_ 153

The Difference _Anonymous_ 154

Laddie _Katherine Lee Bates_ 155

A Dog's Epitaph _Lord Byron_ 157

The Passing of a Dog _Anonymous_ 159

My Dog _Anonymous_ 160

Jack _H.P.W._ 161

In Memory of "Don" _M.S.W._ 162

Roderick Dhu _Helen Fitzgerald Sanders_ 164

Questions _William Hurrell Mallock_ 166

His Epitaph _William Watson_ 167

In Memoriam _Henry Willett_ 168

Questions _Oliver Wendell Holmes_ 170

Our Dog Jock _James Payn_ 171

Tory, a Puppy _Mortimer Collins_ 172

On an Irish Retriever _Fanny Kemble Butler_ 173

A Retriever's Epitaph _Robert C. Lehmann_ 174

PART I

PUPPYHOOD

_"What other nature yours than of a child
Whose dumbness finds a voice mighty to call,
In wordless pity, to the souls of all,
Whose lives I turn to profit, and whose mute
And constant friendship links the man and brute?"_

THE DOG'S BOOK OF VERSE

WE MEET AT MORN

Still half in dream, upon the stair I hear
A patter coming nearer and more near,
And then upon my chamber door
A gentle tapping,
For dogs, though proud, are poor,
And if a tail will do to give command
Why use a hand?
And after that a cry, half sneeze, half yapping,
And next a scuffle on the passage floor,
And then I know the creature lies to watch