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Title: Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Voogt, Gos. de Wormeley, Katharine Prescott, tr Burkett, Charles William, 1873- ed
Subjects: Domestic animals
Publisher: Boston, Ginn & Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Teeth of \ I) E.ACH Other? We should know better what Richard Wag-ner thought of these animals if he had lived tofinish his book, Histoiy of my Dogs. It is wellknown that the master of Bayreuth loved dogsand owned several highly bred species, amongthem Newfoundlands and St. Bernards. Afriend of his relates that he one day compelleda street urchin to sell him, for a thaler, an oldhalf-blind dog which the boy was about to drown.The dog bit his rescuer, but Wagner, instead ofpunishing him, found him an asylum. Dickens,in his account of )\Iy Father as I Recall Him,describes with much sympathy and affection thedogs in the paternal home. Zolas pets, espe-cially Pin, must often have consoled him in thedays of his painful struggle. Pins full name wasThe Chevalier Hector Pin-Pin de Coq-Hardi,but Zola called him friend and comrade. THE DOG These are only a few specimens taken atrandom from the rich collection of evidencesof affection given to dogs bj- intelligent men.Let us now examine into the

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