A DOG OF FLANDERS:

A STORY OF NOEL.

Netto and Patrasche were left all
alone in the world.

They were friends in a friendship
closer than brotherhood. Nello was
a little Ardennois; Patrasche was a
big Fleming. They were both of the
Same age by length of years, yet one
was still young, and the other was
already old. They had dwelt to-
gether almost all their days: both
were orphaned and destitute, and
owed their lives to the same hand.
It had been the beginning of the tie

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