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Title: Dogs of all nations. In prose and rhyme
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Miller, Conrad Jenness, 1842-
Subjects: Dogs Dogs
Publisher: New York, J.S. Ogilvie Publishing Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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scending from op-posite sides, to meet at the top. One of them, when abourtwelve hundred feet from the base, lost his balance androlled down nearly to the bottom, breaking one of hislegs. A short time after the mishap, a big St. Bernardcame to him while he was in the act of tying a hand-kerchief about his broken leg. The dog took in the sit-uation at once: he rubbed his nose over the handkerchiefin a sympathetic manner, and started off on a run forassistance. He had not gone very far when he found 90 DOGS OF ALL NATIONS two men loitering about. It did not take him long tomake known that he had use for them, and he imme-diately started back towards the unfortunate tourist fol-lowed by the two men. When they reached the woundedman, the dog went right up to him and tried to untiethe handkerchief bound about his leg, to show the menhis object in bringing them to his aid. No human be-ing could have done more than the dog, for what the manwanted was assistance to carry him to a house, where
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he could be accommodated and receive medical attendance:this the dog accomplished as well as if he spoke the lan-guage of the country. Wh;o has not read the story of the dog who wentinto battle with his master, and attacked the enemy, whenin a. hand to hand conflict both fell—and over whose ashesrises a monument telling the heroic deeds of the dog, aswell as those of his master: or, the story of the othergoldier-dag who followed the regiment to which he be- IN PRC SE AND RHYME. 91 longed into battle. When the standard bearer fell wounded,and an enemy was bearing the flag away in triumph, thedog attacked him fiercely, taking the flag from him, andcarrying it back to the regiment. A shepherd removing to a distant country, sold hissheep to a neighbor and included his dog that had tendedthe sheep. The new owner mixed them with his largeflock and left them with the dog, and went to his villagehome several miles away. The dog not understanding what was meant by hisold masters sheep making

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