A DOG OF FLANDERS. 19

For Patrasche was their alpha and
omega; their treasury and granary ;
their store of gold and wand of wealth ;
their bread-winner and minister ; their
only friendand comforter. Patrasche
dead or gone from them, they must
have laid themselves down and died
likewise. Patrasche was body, brains,
hands, head, and feet to both of them:
Patrasche was their very life, their
very soul. For Jehan Daas was old
and a cripple, and Nello was but a
child; and, Patrasche was their dog.

A dog of Flanders— yellow of hide,
large of head and limb, with wolf-like
ears that stood erect, and legs bowed
and feet widened in the muscular de-
velopment wrought in his breed by
many ‘generations of hard service.