DOGS.

OGS are great favorites of mine. I agree with the man

' who said there is no friend like a dog. Dogs are so

faithful and so forgiving. They never get in the sulks.

They never go and tell tales out of school. They always
remember favors, and are so thankful for them.

A dog will wag his tail and be contented with a bone, and
be just as grateful to you as though you had shared the best
with him. Dogs are always ready for frolic, and a man or
woman, boy or girl, who cannot take real delight in a rough-
and-tumble play with a dog, must be very cross-grained.

There are some dogs, to be sure, who are cross and snappish,
and would like nothing better than to bite. But then I am
sure this is the fault of their bringing up. They have bad
masters, who are responsible for their bad traits. ven the
worst of dogs always has some good in him. He will, at least,
be faithful to his master, and guard his property.

I like the looks of Watch in the picture. I know he is a
kind, benevolent dog, who would never attack a smaller dog
than himself. But with all his good nature I don’t think it
would be safe to venture too near him at night when he is
guarding his master’s house. He is sitting and looking very
intently at the moon, and seems thinking very deeply. I
- wonder what he can be thinking about? for I have no doubt
dogs do think. Is he trying to study out what the moon is?
and does it puzzle him very much? Maybe he knows all
about it as well as we do, and thinks we are as ignorant as we
think him, while he would explain the matter to us if we were
not so stupid that we could not understand.

Watch seems like a happy, contented dog. He has a nice
warm kennel, with plenty of soft straw for a bed. He has a

very pleasant place to sit outside his kennel on the banks of
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